extracted from the minutes of the Association held in April last but several of the Churches are not included in that account, and not a few of the stations have been subsequently formed. The expenditure is calculated on the average of the last two years; but that for Jamaica will, in all probability, be considerably higher this year than before.

"From each hemisphere, the calls for more laborers are loud and incessant more has been and will shortly be done to meet these demands, than was ever accomplished before in an equal period of time since the Society was formed; and accounts received this morning, (Feb. 18,) from Jamaica, appear to indicate, that, in a very remarkable manner, desirable helpers will be raised up on the spot. These circumstances should be regarded as answers to prayer: but it must not be forgotten, that they will unavoidably cause an increase of expenditure, which it will require all the zeal and energy of our friends to meet. May He, who has conferred upon us this grace, to preach, through the agency of others, the unsearchable riches of Christ among the Gentiles, inspire us with every disposition appropriate to the discharge of so holy and delightful a vocation, and enable us to pursue it with a single eye to His Glory! Amen."

TABULAR VIEW OF THE BAPTIST SOCIETY'S MISSIONS.

*Besides the missionaries named in this column, the Society employs native teachers, catechists, &c., where such assistants can be made useful, and suitable persons obtained. There are four native teachers at Calcutta, the same number at Soory, two at Monghyr, &c. There are at least two hundred and fifty leaders attached to the various churches, who may be regarded as usefully performing the work of catechists.

+Mr. Bruckner is now at Serampore, superintending the printing of the Javanese New Testament, but is anxious to return to Java.

SERAMPORE MISSIONS.-In 1827, the brethren at Serampore withdrew from their friends in England. Some misunderstanding had existed between them, in reference to the tenure on which the premises at Serampore were held, the college which the brethren there had erected, chiefly for literary objects, and the support required for the out stations, connected with Seram

The stations printed in italics are subordinate to those which precede them. The figures denote the distance.

pore. A protracted correspondence took place at different times. In March, 1827, a final and amicable separation took place. The Serampore brethren have now thirteen stations, Serampore, Dum-Dum, Barripore, Jessore, Burisaul, Dacca, Assam, Chittagong, Arracan, Dinagepore, Benares, Allahabad, and Delhi, with seven subordinate stations. There are

seventeen European and Indo-British missionaries, and fifteen native preachers; forty-six persons were received into communion in 1829. The annual expense of the missions is about fifteen thousand rupees. The college at Serampore is in a flourishing state. Translations of the Scriptures into some of the more important languages of the East have been made by the Serampore missionaries.

XI. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—In 1795, the “London Missionary Society" was formed. This was a noble expression of Christian benevolence, in which were united several liberal-minded clergymen and the principal ministers of the Independent denomination, with several of the Scotch secession, and of the Calvinistic Methodists. At their first annual meeting, in May, 1796, it was resolved, that, " to prevent, if possible, any cause of future dissension, it is declared to be a fundamental principle of the Missionary Society, that its design is not Presbyterianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other form of church order; but the glorious Gospel of the blessed God to the heathen; leaving the converts to the Scriptures for Church government." This society originated in a great measure with Dr. Edward Williams, an Independent minister of Birmingham, publishing an address to his brethren in the ministry, in the Evangelical Magazine, in 1794, established in that year. By this address, the servants of God were led to take measures for this institution. Dr. Williams, Dr. Haweis, Dr. Bogue, Mr. Eyre, Mr. Rowland Hill, Mr. Matthew Wilkes, were among its founders. The South Sea islands were the station first chosen, and thirty missionaries were sent in the ship Duff. They were received by the natives of Tahiti with expressions of delight: but nearly twenty years they labored with but little success; when, at once, the Divine blessing descended, and the whole population of several islands renounced idolatry, destroyed their idols, and embraced Christianity; multitudes of them in spirit and in truth. The work of God's grace continued to spread, and native teachers were raised up as missionaries to other and remote islands. To give a worthy account in this place is impossible; of the abolition of idolatry, infanticide, and other destructive abominations, as well as of the prevalence of religion among these once brutalized pagans. The African islands, but especially South Africa, has been marvellously blessed by means of the