1838. CONCLUSION. atry, and darkness is seen to be fleeing before the rising dawn, and that too in spite of all power of idol gods or their devotees to resist, inspires the heathen with the belief that there is an energy higher than human, or any that issues from their temples, concerned in carrying forward this cause. The command of Christ requires progress. However far we might have advanced in the work of evangelizing the nations, while one tribe remained on the wide earth, that command is still of binding force, Go preach the gospel to EVERY creature. The last remaining tribe is as needy and perishing, as the first which was approached How when the earth's population was one unbroken army of aliens. then can this be a time for the people of God of this age to linger or retreat, when they cannot point to a nation or tribe on the face of the earth, and say that, in regard to that one, the work enjoined by their Master and Head has been accomplished? In view of the circumstances of the Board and its missions during the year just past, should not all its patrons be led to inquire seriously whether any such progress has been made towards converting the nations to Christ, as will serve as a basis for a calculation that the whole work will be accomplished within any definite period of time; and whether the prospects of the unevangelized nations now upon the earth of ever obtaining the bread of life from our hands are not dark and well nigh desperate? Ought we not also to inquire whether, with all our weakness in respect to men and funds, we can afford to have our missionaries shorn of their strength, and left to waste their time, or to labor at disadvantage? Can we afford to allow them to fall back in their work, while the heathen have time to recruit their forces, encourage themselves in their idolatry, and thus compel ourselves, if the nations are ever to be subdued to Christ, to achieve our conquests over again? The Committee know of no more appropriate language with which to close these remarks, and which they desire may not soon cease to sound in the ears of all the patrons of the Board, than that employed by our brethren of the Ceylon mission. "If," say they, "you would not waste your money in the missionary work; if you would not waste the labors and lives of your missionaries in fruitless toil; if you would not do, only to undo again, YOU MUST GIVE A STEADY ANd unCHANGING SUPPORT TO YOUR ESTABlished misSIONS." PECUNIARY ACCOUNTS. EXPENDITURES OF THE BOARD DURING THE YEAR ENDING JULY, 31, 1838. Purchases, &c., 304 02 Expenses, in part, of return from South Africa of Mr. Grout and two children of the mission, 565 87 Expenses of do. since their arrival in this country, 81 1811,088 70 Remittances and drafts, including expenses at Broosa and Trebi zond, Purchases, &c., 10,832 00 -11,058 22 Do. to Mr. Goodrich and family, 200 00 Expenses of Mr. Richards and family, and various purchases made by him, 432 32 Passage of Mr. and Mrs. Richards and two natives to Honolulu, 675 00 Brought forward, $41,763 36 $140,988 25 Expenses of Mr. Spaulding and family, including balance for their passage to this country, 138 79 Expenses of Mr. Dibble and children, Drafts, &c., including 500 Watts's Catechism in the Dakota language, Oregon Mission. Drafts, &c., Expenses, in part, of Mr. Parker's family, Outfit and expenses of Messrs. Gray, Walker, Eells and Smith, and their wives, including funds for their travelling expenses to the Oregon Territory, and various purchases, 134 05 563 99 Purchases, &c., 323 54 Deduct amount received from the Society in Scotland for promoting christian knowledge, |