EMBARCATION OF MISSIONARIES.

We cannot give a better account of the pub. lic services, preceding the embarcation of Messrs. Goodell and Bird, at New York city' for the Palestine Mission, than follows:

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From the American Missionary Register.

The Rev. William Goodel! and the Rev. Isaac Bird, assigned to the Palestine Mission, under the care of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, arrived in this city, with their wives, on the 26th ult. with a view to embark for Malta, in the brig Shepherdess, which was expected to sail in two or three days, but did not get away till Monday morning, the 9th inst.

The passage had been engaged from NewHaven; but owing to an accident, the owners found it expedient to complete the lading of the vessel here, and this made it necessary for the missionaries to follow. This circumstance is mentioned, as their embarcation from New-York was entirely unexpected.

The delay of their sailing gave opportunity for several appropriate religious services. On Sabbath afternoon, the 1st inst. Mr. Goodell preached in the church in Murray street, from Matt. xvi, 2, 3, on The Signs of the Times. His design was to show, that there are, at present, clear indications of the great extension and final prevalence of the Christian religion. In pursuance of this design, he dwelt upon Sabbath Schools, Revivals of Religion, and the origin, labors, and success of Education Societies, Missionary Societies, Bible Societies, and Societies for the conversion of the Jews. He adverted, also, to Tract Societies, Peace Societies, and Soci. eties for the benefit of Seamen. At the close, he remarked, that there was no reason to apprehend any interference of one society, or one class of operations, with another, as they all unite in promoting the same grand object; and that all persons, from the little child to the man of gray hairs, and in every condition, may have the happiness of doing something. to hasten the millennium.

The Rev. Dr. Romeyn and the Rev. Mr. Whelpley offered the prayers. The house was much crowded, as several clergymen, wishing to give their sanction to the mission, and to be present on the occasion, attended with their congregations.

In the evening, Mr. Bird preached in the same church, from John x, 16. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice. The audience was large, and, at the close of the services, a collection was taken for the Palestine Mission, amounting to about $200. The prayers were offered by the Rev. Mr. M'Carty and the Rev. Mr. Cox.

On Monday evening, several congregations united in observing the monthly concert in the Middle Dutch church, which is supposed to be capable of accommodating more wor shippers than any other church in the city.

Mr. Bird made the first prayer.

Mr. Evarts, the Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, read extracts of letters, which had lately been received from missionaries, and transmitted to him from Boston.

He introduced the subject by observing, that the letters related to two missions, which hold a deep interest in the minds of the Christian public, not only of this country, but of Great Britain, and some parts of continental Europe. While the friends of missions, to a man, highly approve the exertions made to enlighten and christianize the aborigines of our own continent, and especially of our own country, they feel a more than ordinary interest in the missions to the Sandwich Islands, and to Palestine.

He then read the following sentences from a letter, written by Mrs. Bingham to her sister, and dated at the Sandwich Islands. Jan. 28, 1822:-"The school has engaged my attention the last fortnight very closely. How pleasant, if you could just look within, when twenty-five surrounded me, each having the commencement of an Owhyhee Spelling Book, eighteen or twenty a slate and pencil, ten or twelve a writing book, and thirteen an English Testament.

This letter was written he observed, about twenty-one months after the first landing of the missionaries. The progress, which had been made, was astonishingly rapid, compared with that of any other mission among untutored people. It was many years before the missionaries at the Society Islands could obtain any children, who would attend school, or learn to read at all. Now, there are sup posed to be 10,000 individuals, who can read the Gospels, printed at the mission-press of those islands, and received with the greatest eagerness by the people. But at the Sandwich Islands, children learned to read the English Testament the very first year of the mission; and, before the second year was completed, the mission-press began its operations. On the first Monday of January last, the beginning of our Owhyhee Spelling Book was struck off; the first sheet of which has been received in this country, and which was immediately put into the hands of children and adults anxious to receive it.

Curran, the celebrated Irish orator, being struck with the intelligence of the people, where they were all taught to read, at an early period of their lives, exclaimed, “See what these four and twenty letters have to say for themselves."

learning to read, thus exalts the character of men, as members of a civil community, what shall be said of it, as the means of their becoming acquainted with the Word of Life? And if those who contribute to the improvement of the modes of education, in their own enlightened country, are justly styled benefactors, how ought we to esteem the faithful missionary, who introduces letters among a savage people, and trains to learning and to virtue these children of the forest?

Shall not such a woman as Mrs. Bingham, who went from a sphere of great usefulness in her own country, and from a large circle of most affectionate friends, be encouraged in her work, as she sits down to instruct, with most unwearied assiduity, the ignorant and neglected children of pagans? The appeal is made to every friend of human improvement, whether such labors, for such a purpose, are not entitled to high commendation and efficient support. The appeal is made to every female in this great assembly, whether such laborers are not to receive, besides a mere comfortable support for themselves, such support for the children under their care, as shall enable them most effectually to promote the end they have in view; which is no less than the introduction of Christianity and civilization among a people, who have been sunk for ages in the deepest ignorance and barbaris:n.

The other letter, from which Mr. Evarts read extracts, was written by the Rev. Jonas King, who is now attached to the Palestine mission. It was dated at Paris, Sept. 21, 1822, and mentioned the following subscriptions, as having been made towards his support as a missionary to Palestine, for three years: viz.

Mr. S. V. S. Wilder, of Paris, annually, for three g 100

years,

This letter also stated, that, at the formation of the Foreign Missionary Society it Paris, the Rev. Daniel Wilson, of London, was present, made a most animating speech in French, and added a donation of 100 francs. Mr. Wilson is a distinguished clergyman of the English Episcopal church. The newly organized society appointed Mr. King their first Missionary, though he is to act under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The British ambassador at the court of France kindly gave him a particular passport to go into the Turkish dominions; and he experienced many other civilities, in reference to his contemplated journey, both from societies and individuals.

The letter was read to illustrate the manner in which men of different countries are brought to co-operate in sending the Gospel. Mr. Fisk wrote to Mr. King, requesting him to join the mission for a season.

The letter

was laid before a Christian friend for bis advice. He approves of the measure, and ap. plication is made to others. Thus a missionry is supported by a few individuals, scattered at a great distance from each other. The whole proceeding leads to the formation of a Foreign Missionary Society in Paris, the results of which, even on this side the grave, none but the Omniscient can estimate.

Mr. Evarts concluded by remarking, that the services of men engaged in commercial

pursuits are of great value, in promoting the cause of missions. Of this, Mr. Wilder is an example. Though much occupied in mercantile transactions, he deems it an honor and a high gratification to devote both time and influence to this noblest object which can employ the agency of man.

The remarks by Mr. Evarts were followed by two addresses; one by the Rev. Dr. Mac Auley, the other by the Rev. Mr. Cox. The Editor of the work from which we extract, was disappointed in his expectation of procuring for his readers the address of Dr. Mac Auley. The substance of Mr. Cox's address is given. We should be much pleased to insert the whole of it; but our limits constrain us to be content with one or two extracts.

Having quoted the great commission given by the "Prince of missionaries" to his apostles, just as he was about to ascend from the summit of Olivet to his original glory, Mr. C. added:

Now of these words, the true meaning is ascertained by deeds and facts-by apostolic usage and example. The apostles and primitive preachers of Christianity were all missionaries. Such was Peter-after a miracle had broke the enchantment of his Jewish prejudices. Such was Paul, the apostle of the nations: his heart was expanded with that philanthropy which originates in the love of God, and his feet were winged in the paths. of missionary obedience. He tells the church of Rome, whom he had then never visited, that he had come as near to them in his evangelical toils, as he could come, without actually standing in their city, or upon the peninsula: "So that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ. Yea, so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where it was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: but as it is written, to whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand."

Thus we are engaged in no fanciful affair. Invisible, indeed, are its ends and its author; but, firm its support, divine its patronage, blessed its progress, and certain its success. Unlike the vain, earthly enterprise of the crusaders, to which reference has been made, that monstrous offspring of chivalry and superstition, which erst emptied the population of Europe upon the plains of Palestine, it appeals to the testimonies of God for its high vindication-it points to the social and civil, the temporal and eternal blessedness of man for its immediate and beneficent object; it draws from eternity the incentive and the sanction of its efforts.

The prophecies indicate not uncertainly the ultimate and the universal triumph of Christianity. Soon shall "the truth as it is in Jesus," be published "to every nation and kindred, and tongue, and people:" and soon shall a mighty "angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a

great chain in his hand; and lay hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bind him a thousand years; and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years be fulfilled." Soon shall the kingdom of light be extended, and the truth of the Gospel be ascendant in the earth: soon shall the grace of the Redeemer baptize the spirits of this globe's population, and, (in the animated, half-poetic, and wholly prophetic language of the late president Dwight,) "from Nova Zembla to Cape Horn, and from California to Japan, the spires of Christian temples shall gladden the eye of the traveller, and the notes of salvation vibrate on his ear."

"The groans of nature in this nether world,
Which heav'n has heard for ages, have an end.
Foretold by prophets, and by poets sung,
Whose fire was kindled at the prophet's lamp;
The time of rest, the promis'd Sabbath, comes.
Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh
Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course
Over a sinful world; and what remains
Of this tempestuous state of human things
Is merely as the working of a sea
Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest;
For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds,
The dust that waits upon his sultry march,
When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot,
Shall visit earth in mercy; shall descend,
Propitious, in his chariot, pav'd with love;
And what his storms have blasted and defae'd,
For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair."

Mr. C. then remarked, that nothing but a conviction, that the cause of missions is the cause of God, and sanctioned by the divine command, will move the millions, secure the resources, and concentrate the energies, of Christendom, in this work of faith and labor of love. He proceeded:

We feel for these friends with whom we are so soon to part. My associations tell me there is an analogy between this occasion and that when "there came a woman, having an alabaster-box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on the head" of Jesus, as he reclined, at meat. That guiltless head was soon to bow in death, "the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God." "And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying." And we are assembled to anoint them for their burial. Buried to us they soon will be till the heavens are no more-buried till we meet them, with the congregation of the risen dead, "at the judgment-seat of Christ." And shall we here yield to the sympathies of our nature, indulge the joy of grief in its romantic tile, and sorrow as those who have no hope?' No! rather let us say, with that holy calculator, who studied his arithmetic in the school of Christ, "I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Contrasted with our efforts and privations, who do indolently less, their enterprise is arduous, their sacrifices great: but there is a relation in which both appear diminished and

annihilated. Compared with his philanthropy who descended from the throne of glory to the place of sculls, all our self-denial-all our achievement is nothing! We do indeed admire their piety, and "glorify God in them." We mingle our sympathies with their sufferings, and will embalm their names and their mission in our recollections and our prayers. This concert of prayer shall ever revive them in our memories. It shall be to them as "the tree of life, which yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." We will trace them on their way in our imaginations, and when our fancy sees them entering the Mediterranean, and nearing that land of sacred story, the cradle of Christianity, now under the judi cial seath of God; and remembering that there Jesus lived, and preached, and died; that there was the scene of Pentecost, and the seat of the primitive churches; that those shores were once trod by the feet and vocal with the preachings of apostolic missionaries; and instead of the glory that has departed, beholding every where the crescent, the mosque, the turban, the triumphs and the trophies of Mahomedan imposture, its bloody fruits and lascivious orgies, we will anticipate their warning to our western churches: we will hear them saying, "O America! beware of neglect. ing the great salvation! thy candlestick may, too, be removed out of its place; prize and perpetuate the pure principles of Christianity, the institutions and blessings of the only religion."

The closing prayer was offered by the Rer. Mr. Goodell, and a collection was taken up amounting to about two hundred dollars.

On Thursday, the 5th, which was the day of the annual thanksgiving, in this state, the missionaries attended public worship, at the Rev. Dr. Romeyn's church in Cedar-street. Mr. Goodell offered the first prayer. Mr. Bird preached from Mark xvi, 15. Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.

About the close of the sermon, the clergy and many private members of several churches and congregations, in accordance with a previous arrangement, came in. *

The instructions to the missionaries were then delivered by the Corresponding Secre.

tary.

Preparations having been made for the celebration of the Lord's Supper, the Rev. Dr. Milledoler prayed and gave thanks, and addressed the communicants during the administration of the bread. The Rev. Mr. Knox made an address during the administration of the wine.

The Rev. Mr. M'Murray prayed,

A collection was taken, amounting to nearly $200; the exact sum of the three collections, for the benefit of the mission, being $600,47.

These solemn services were closed with an address by the Rev. Dr. Mac Auley to the communicants, the missionaries, and that part of the congregation who did not unite in the commemoration of a Savior's love.

When most of the audience had retired, the managers of the United Foreign Missionary Society, agreeably to previous arrangements, were introduced to the missionaries, and a

short address, expressive of the kind wishes of the Board, was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Milledoler, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence.

The missionaries, while they were waiting in this city, became acquainted with many friends of the Redeemer, by whom they were received and treated with great kindness and hospitality. Beside what has been mentioned above, Mr. Goodell preached in the Rev. Mr. Patten's church, on Sabbath, the 1st inst.; in the Rev. Dr. Mac Auley's on Wednesday evening; in the Rev. Mr. Matthews on Fri. day evening; and on the Sabbath, the 8th, at the Mariner's church, at the Rev. Mr. Whelpley's, and at the session room of the Brick church.

On the 1st inst. Mr. Bird preached at the Mariner's church, and on the 8th at the Rev. Mr. Stafford's place of worship.

The missionaries unexpectedly embarked on Sabbath evening, the Sth inst. at 10 o'clock. Thirty or forty of their friends, having understood that they had been summoned on board, called at their lodgings, and, having united in a song of praise, and in prayer by the Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners, accompanied them to the vessel, where another hymn was sung, a portion of Scripture was read, and prayers were offered by Mr. Dwight of New-Haven, and Mr. Lewis, the Domestic Secretary of the United Foreign Missionary Society. At an early hour on the following morning, this interesting Mission Family took their depar ture, followed by many fervent prayers for a blessing upon their benevolent enterprise.

VISIT OF INDIAN YOUNG MEN,
At Charleston, S. C.

On the 6th of November, Adin C. Gibbs, a Delaware; and John Ridge, David S. Tawcheecy, James Fields, Thomas Bassel, and John Vann, Cherokees;-arrived at CharlesS. C. They had all completed the allotted period of study, at the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall; and, in company with the Rev. Reynolds Bascom, who is to spend a few months in missionary labor at Elliot,-were on their way to the Indian country. All, excepting the first named of the Cherokees, are professors of religion. Gibbs goes to the Choctaw nation as an assistant missionary and catechist. The others will aim, we trust, to be useful to their countrymen, in whatever station Providence shall place then.

On the Sabbath evening after their arrival, a meeting was held in the Circular Church, and addresses were made, by Adin C. Gibbs and John Ridge, to a very numerous audience. Gibbs gave a short history of the Cornwall School; the number of scholars; the places from whence they came; the manner of their

leaving their native country; the means by which Providence, brought them to the school; the impression made on their minds by the manners and ordinances of civilized and Christian life; and the hopeful conversion of most of them to faith in the Lord Jesus.

Ridge spoke of the early possessions of the Cherokees in Carolina, and of the wars, which formerly existed between his nation and that state; and used terms rather severe in respect to those, who disbelieved in the practicability of Indian civilization.

"He entered into a detailed statement,"says the Charleston Religious Intelligencer,"of the government of the Cherokee nation, which was certainly an evidence of considerable progress from the savage state. Ho stated that many of the inhabitants had large possessions in cattle, and great produce from their farms; that the men were versed in the arts of husbandry, and the females in those of domestic life."

The effect produced on the audience by these addresses, is said to have been that of high satisfaction. A collection was taken amounting to about $200.

On Friday evening, November 15th, an other meeting was held in the same church. The house was much crowded; and the effect was similar to that of the former meeting. The collection amounted to $195 38; one half of which, in accordance with a suggestion of Mr. Bascom, was given to the Chickasaw mission, under the superintendence of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia.

The address, which Ridge delivered at this meeting, has been published in the Religious Intelligencer. We think it proper, that one or two extracts from it should be given in cur work.

Extracts from the Address of John Ridge.

The inconveniencies attached to unciviliz ed habits, and the degraded state of untutored savages, cannot be duly estimated, without a particular knowledge of their history and daily avocations. On a former occasion, I unfold. ed to you the happy effects of missionary labor among them, and the prominent advantages resulting in the transition from a savage to civilized life. Among the remarkable causes of mortality which exist among them, their habits greatly accelerate their final extermination. That "vinum causa malorum magnorum est," all nations are ready to acknowledge; but in greater degree, the powerful and baneful effects of it have been felt by the poor Indians. The laws of honor and morality are great checks to the progress of this contagion in civilized countries; but where no barriers, of consequence, to its promulgation exists, these intoxicating liquors