were laid aside, and a vigorous course of tonicks, which appeared to be clearly indicated, was substituted. To relieve his head, a large blister was excited on the back of his neck. By this mode of treatment he seemed a little revived again for a few days; but at length his strength failed, every dangerous symptom grew more alarming, and on the 7th instant, about 10 o'clock, P. M. he sunk in the arms of death. "Thus, dear sir, every means employed for his restoration proved ineffectual. He had accomplished his work-his race was ended, and it was necessary he should enter into the joy of his Lord. However useful or necessary his continuance with us appeared, and however reluctant we were to part with this dear brother, Infinite Wisdom saw it best he should be removed. Let us be still and adore. "Sister Chapman seems to be wonderfully supported under this heavy stroke of affliction." JOURNAL OF THE UNION MISSION FOR DE- Dec. 4.-A very lovely girl, aged nine years, whose father is dead, was brought by her mother, and given to the family to be educated. We have named her Frances Phillips. Dec. 5. Lord's day.-Six men from the settlements below came to pay us a visit, and witness the progress of the Mission. We gave them tracts and religious books, for their own use and for distribution. A short time since we sent to the people of the settlements two hundred of these silent preachers, which we had received from New York, and we have reason to believe that they were perused with profit by hundreds of families. Dec. 23.-The four children of Swiss have been taken from us, and among them Abraham, an apprentice to the carpenter's trade. We are not without hope, how. ever, that God in his kind providence will restore them to the school. It is painful thus to see our children taken from the means of instruction, and carried back to - a dirty Indian lodge to spend their time in idleness, losing what they have gained, and hearing the evil counsel of those who dislike education. Dec. 31.-It is our painful duty to record, at the close of this year, that Mr. Chapman is in a very poor state of health, and we fear declining. Dr. Palmer thinks his disorder is the typhus fever. It is but a week since he returned from a short journey which he had taken to reinstate his health; but which proved ineffectual, and on the contrary increased his disorder, as he was much exposed to wet and cold. He is now confined to his bed-his mind considerably deranged, and our hopes of his returning to his important labours, without a serious fit of sickness, are small. "O God, how unsearchable are thy ways!" In a letter accompanying the Journal, Mr. Viall says, "The U. S. agent, lately appointed for this nation, arrived here a few days ago. Some considerable changes in the situation of the nation are proposed. We do not consider them unfavourable to the interest of the cause, but trust in Jehovah to guide. The Indians have committed more outrages; but our confidence in final success is undiminished by any thing that has yet occurred.” We have been requested to insert the following as an article of religious intelligence. A NEW THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. A Theological Seminary has just been organized by the Associate Reformed Synod of the South. The Rev. John Hemphil has been chosen Professor of Didactick and Polemick Theology, and the Rev. John T. Pressly, Professor of the Original Languages, Church History, and Biblical Criticism. Until the funds shall be sufficient to support the Professors, each will remain in his pastoral charge; and the students, after a course with one of the professors, will have recourse to the other, and there terminate their studies. professor possesses an excellence peculiar to himself; and both are men of unquestionable talents. They are both before the world as authors. Mr. Hemphill has been always the bold and skilful champion of the truth. Mr. Pressly, the junior professor, is "a workman that needeth not to be ashamed."-Such men the present condition of the church greatly demands. Each We earnestly recommend the subsequent communication to the serious attention of our readers. Philadelphia, May 3, 1825. Mr. Editor,-The following intelligence will be gratifying to the Christian publick, and may prompt others to go and do likewise. A Female Missionary Society, auxiliary to the United Foreign Missionary Society, was organized at Lancaster (Pa.) April 23, 1825. Officers, Mrs. CLARA F. ASHMEAD, President. Mrs. MARY BRYAN, Vice-President. Mrs. ELIZABETH KIRKPATRICK, Treas. Mrs. MARGARET SLATMAKER, Sec'ry. After which the following communication was received from the President. "The Female Missionary Society of Lancaster engage to pay one hundred dol lars annually for four years to the United Foreign Missionary Society, for the education of an Indian youth at the Foreign Missionary School at Cornwall; one hun-" dred dollars of which, as our first annual payment, is now committed to the charge of the Rev. Horace Sessions; and we would request him to see that a suitable youth be selected. We are not particular about the nation to which he may belong, but wish him to be possessed of piety and talents which shall render him useful in the ministry of the Lord. We wish the name of William Ashmead may be given him, in remembrance of our much loved and respected Pastor. May we not hope to receive soon a particular account of the youth? and we shall be happy to answer any letters he may address to us. "CLARA F. ASHMEAD." Much might be said in favour of this mode of charitable appropriation. It is one of the most interesting, most certain in its results, and most economical in spreading the gospel, that has yet been devised. And the fact that youth from about thirty heathen nations have of late been instructed in the schools of America, shows what an influence our country will have in regenerating the world. If there is a parallel in the records of the church, it seems to be in Acts ii.-For in America also there are "devout men out of almost every nation under heaven,"--Owhyheans, and Chinese, and the Narragansett, and the dwellers in Tuscarora, and in Oneida, and Caughnewagah, in Iroquois and Russia, Malay and India, in the Marquesas, and in the parts of the South Sea about New Zealand, and strangers from Europe, Jews and Portuguese, Greeks and Indians-" We do hear them speak in our tongue the wonderful works of God." And will not these go every where preaching the Gospel? Will they not diffuse the language, the literature, the liberty, the religion of America? And will not these things build up a free, industrious, moral community, wherever they go? Come then, ye admirers of whatever is American, act in consistency with this admiration-aid the feeble-handed, in sending these blessings where they are not. H. SESSIONS, Agent. FEMALE BIBLE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA. The Eleventh Anniversary of the Society was held on the 23d of March, 1825, in the Session Room of the First Presbyterian Church. The meeting was opened with an excellent and appropriate prayer, by the Right Rev. Bishop White, The Report was read by the Rev. Dr. Brodhead, who then addressed the society with much feeling, and in very impressive terms. Mr. Joseph Eastburn closed the meeting by an affecting address, suitable to the occasion. This society has six associations in the city and Liberties of Philadelphia. THE PHILADELPHIA BIBLE SOCIETY. The This society met on the 4th inst. in the First Presbyterian Church, at 10 o'clock, Right Rev. Bishop White. The report was A. M. and was opened with prayer by the speeches were delivered calculated to aniread by the Rev. Mr. Boyd; and several mate the audience to new and more vigorous exertions in the Bible cause. audience was large, respectable, and attentive; and we remarked with great pleasure that distinguished laymen took a very active part in the exercises. Two of the speeches were delivered by John Sergeant and Thomas Bradford, Esquires. We must refer to the report, which will soon be printed, for the details of the operations of the society through the past year. Although the last part of Mr. Stewart's Journal, a portion of which is given in our present number, contains dates quite as recent as any we have seen from these islands, he says nothing of the rebellion of George P. Tamoree, or of the civil war which he excited in the island of Atooi.-It will probably be given fully in his subsequent Journal. In the mean time, we offer to our readers the following extract of a letter from the Rev. Hiram Bingham, to one of the editors of the New York Observer. It is dated October 2d, 1824. At the time of Tamoree's death, our schools were flourishing at the different Islands, and more than 1000 pupils were under instruction. Since that period their attention has been somewhat diverted by the unhappy insurrection at Atooi of George P. Tamoree, and several other chiefs of that Island. I had been at Atooi three months when the attempt was made by the insurgents to take possession of the fort at Waimea. I had more than once visited young Tamoree at his residence, 8 miles from that place, and once preached at his house the funeral sermon of a foreigner who died there, and attempted to direct his restless mind to the Prince of peace-entreated him to remember the many earnest prayers of his friends for him, and not to give over the salvation of his soul as a thing quite impossible or of no importance. His mind appeared to be much oppressed. He was affected by the death of his father, who had been to him a faithful counsellor, but no less by the unwelcome condition in which his father had placed him, by bequeathing that Island and all his property to Krimokoo, and Kaahumanu for Rihoriho, leaving to George the subordinate possession of Wahiava only, a small place, less than the hundredth part of Atooi. It would seem to have been the design of young Tamoree to stake what he had, in a bold adventure to rise above this condition, and, in case of failure, to throw himself on the clemency of Krimokoo, whom he professed to regard as his friend, and VOL. III-Ch. Adv. who he might justly suppose would be much more disposed to spare his life than Kahalaia, the nephew of the late Tamahamaha, who had been constituted governor of the Island. The fact that he allowed Kabalaia to have possession of the fort a month unmolested previous to the arrival there of Krimokoo, and that he chose to strike the blow just as Krimokoo was on the point of sailing for Oahu, leads me to conclude he presumed much on the clemency of that noble chief. Nor was this confidence misplaced, as appears from the result. Krimokoo has, in every attempt to suppress the insurrection, assiduously endeavoured to save the life of his young opponent; he has kindly entreated him to lay down his arms and accept of par on, and when he perseveringly refused, he has given the strictest orders to his officers and soldiers, to spare his life, if he could possibly be taken alive. After two battles, in which the insurgents were repulsed and dispersed, Tamoree is at length taken alive, after concealing himself some weeks in the mountains, and conducted safely to Krimokoo. This is our latest intelligence from Atooi. Most of the principal chiefs of the Islands are now there, with an army of about 1000 men. A new distribution of the lands of Atooi is to be made in consequence of the commotion there. Tamo ree and others will doubtless be removed to the windward, and windward chiefs and people left in their stead. Though this conflict has diverted the attention of our scholars from instruction, it has, we believe, been the means of confirming the attachment of many to the cause of the Gospel; who have not only been obviously more engaged in prayer to the Christian's God, but who piously ascribe their protection and deliverance to his special care and gracious interposition. Laanui, a young chief, who with his wife Opiia, two years ago spent a day with the mission family that they might enjoy our monthly prayer meeting, writes from Atooi to her at this place, "I desire to return to you, that you and I may be strong together in the word of God, who has himself shielded us from the balls that we might live.-My love to the missionaries." Kaahumanu proclaimed a fast at Lahaina, before she went down to the scene of war. Several of the honourable women who profess to love the Gospel, have begun to hold female prayer meetings. The following is a brief account of this George P. Tamoree, taken likewise from the New York Observer. When he was about seven years old, his father, (the late king Tamoree,) who was 2G partial to the Americans, and desirous that his son should receive an education, committed him to the captain of an American ship, who agreed to bring him to this country, and educate him. To defray the expenses of his education, Tamoree gave the captain several thousand dollars. George arrived at Boston about the year 1804, and was sent to Worcester, where he remained at school till the property was all expended, and the captain died. He was then removed from one family and place to another in the neighbourhood of Worcester, till at length, becoming dissatisfied with his situation, he went to Bos ton and enlisted in the naval service of the United States. This was during our last war with Great Britain. He was in the Enterprise during her action with the Boxer, and was badly wounded in that engagement. He also served on board the Guer riere in the Mediterranean, and assisted in capturing an Algerine frigate. After the termination of the war, he was again thrown upon the world, and, destitute of friends, ragged, dirty, and in want, he was found in the navy-yard at Charlestown, by some benevolent persons, who, having become acquainted with his early history, took him under their protection, and soon after committed him to the care of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, who resolved to give him she had forwarded to us a trunk, containing articles the product of the Sandwich Islands. The trunk has arrived in safety, and the articles have received no injury. They consist of shells, lava, coral, and a ring, apparently made of the tooth of an animal, presented by the wife of the chief Boki to Betsey. Stockton, and various other manufactures of the natives. The manufactures are truly curious-several pieces of Tapa, or native cloth, variously and very handsomely coloured, and a large party coloured mat, such as those with which the floors of the chiefs are covered, and on which they sit. The Tapa is seemingly formed like paper, but will bear wetting, and even washing. The colours are brilliant, and at a little distance the whole appearance is that of calico or chintz. The mat is woven, and is very strong and substantial. Interesting account given by the missionaries at the Sandwich Islands, of the character and death of Keopuolani, mother of the late king RiTahoriho. an education and send him back to his father. Accordingly he went to Cornwall, and was there instructed in the common branches of learning, and in the doctrines and duties of Christianity. His conduct, however, was the occasion of much grief to his friends. In 1819 he went out with the first missionaries to the Sandwich islands, and on his arrival at Atooi, he was joyfully received by his father, who manifested the warmest gratitude to the missionaries for their agency in restoring to him his long-lost son, and was ever afterward their firm friend and supporter. But George soon became so dissipated and worthless, that his father lost all confidence in him, and at his death, was unwilling, as we have seen, that he should be his successor. From this brief statement it will be seen that the American Board are not at all responsible for the conduct of George, for he has never been in their employment, and has never enjoyed their confidence. By educating him and restoring him to his father, they expected to secure the friendship of a chief whose good offices would be of important service to their mission aries. In this they have not been disappointed. In our last number it may be remembered that it was mentioned, in a letter from Betsey Stockton, that The evidence which she gave of being the subject of renewing grace, was such as we can scarcely expect will exist in another case, for a whole generation. For a considerable time before she came to Lahinah, she was particularly attentive to the instructions of the missionaries, and to some of the outward forms of the Christian religion. Immediately on her arrival here, she took a very decided stand against immorality; openly reproved vice in a manner which would have done honour to an old enlightened Christian; always listened with attention to the preaching of the gospel; made frequent and very interesting inquiries respecting the future state, and the way of salvation through Jesus Christ; expressed many fears lest she should not learn enough of the new way to reach heaven; but every week gave new evidence that she was fast preparing for it. Of her kindness we cannot speak to highly. She called us her sons, and treated us as such. She built the houses in which we live, and the house in which we worship, and this, too, without being solicited. She rarely, if ever, received a sup ply of fish, potatoes, or fruit, without sendwhether we were in want of any kind of ing some to us. She frequently inquired food, and always supplied us when we [See page 236. |