there the word of God flourishes and grows, and behold, God has guided me back again. Will it be agreeable to you that we should assemble together at one place, and all eat together?'

The king and chiefs answered thus, It is perfectly agreeable to us, we will receive and hold fast the word of life. We are pleased because of your saying, Burn the evil spirit in the fire. Let every thing made by our hands (as a god) be charred in the fire. Behold you say, O Auura, that we have spirits or souls, we never knew that man possessed a spirit—no; never, never.'

Auura then answered thus; I have one more word to say to you. These two men (the teachers) are chosen by the church at Raiatea. God caused the thought to grow in the hearts of the Missionaries, and behold they have sent them to teach us to read: because of their great love to us these two are sent. The Missionaries think very much of them; for the Missionaries are very compassionate towards us. The people of Raiatea thought, in their regard to these two men, that they would be killed in our land, and that the boat would be seized by us. The Raiateans think our land is a barbarous land; therefore do not ill use these men, but behave with the greatest kindness to them, and then it will be well.' The king and chiefs answered, It is perfectly agreeable to us.'

Now, lo! up started two men inspired by the evil spirit. One of the evil spirits said, 'It's agreeable, It's agrecable: we will hold the good word * The other man who was also inspired by the evil spirit, thus spake, 'I have seen the foundation of the firmament, up in the sky. Taaroa (the great idol) brought me forth.' Auura then answered the evil spirit thus, Do you leap up then, that we may see you flying up into the sky. Do so now, immediately. Truly thou art even the very foundation of deceit. The people of Rurutu have been completely destroyed through you, and through you alone, and now you shall not deceive us again: we will not be deceived again through you. We know the true God: begone. If the Son of God stood in our presence you would be ashamed. When Auura had done speaking, he sat down. Mahamene then stood up and said, 'You have agreed and your desire is to Jesus, that he may save your spirits. Ye are the lands for which the Missionaries at Raiatea, Tahiti, Moorea, Huaheine, Borabora, and England have prayed. The churches wherever there are Missionaries, have compassion upon the lands that have no teachers; therefore they subscribe property, that the word of God may be sent to the lands that are without teachers. The Missionaries of Raiatea have sent us two to teach you letters and the name of the true God. May you be saved through Jesus Christ.'

Mahamene then sat down. Puna (the other teacher) then rose and said, Dear friends, this is my thought towards you-affection grows in my heart now towards you, in your living in darkness and in the shade of death. Behold you are eating the food of death-the poisonous fish, and drinking bitter water. Behold, we are here before you to make known to you the true God, that you may know him. This I say to you, O king and chiefs, prepare one place where you may all eat together, you and your wives and children, and your king, at one eating place, and there the evil spirit who has just now inspired that man shall be com

pletely ashamed he has no refuge; but cast away every disgraceful thing from among you, for that is the reason he remains among you. You worship him and he is accustomed to deceive you; but now be fervent in prayer to God that you may escape. Should you not listen to that word, you will die, and you will bear the wrath of God, and you will be led by the evil spirit you have now cast away into the fire of hell; but if you regard the word and the name of the Son of God, you will, by that means, be saved. May you be saved through Jesus Christ.' MAHAMENE.

To Messrs. Williams and Threlkeld, Raiatea ".

PUNA.

THE eating together (observe the Missionaries) was on the day after the Meeting, and was to be the test of the truth of the word of God. If they died according to the predictions of the priests, namely, that any woman eating either hog or turtle would surely be eaten by the evil spirit; or any one eating on a sacred place would surely die, and be eaten also then they would not destroy their gods; but if no one sustained any injury, they would then utterly destroy all their idols. They met accordingly; and after satisfying their appetites, without sustaining any injury, they arose, boldly seized the gods, and then proceeded to demolish totally the Morais, which was all completely effected that day.

It is worthy of remark, that when the boat first reached the shore, Ma-* hamene and Puna, with their party, knelt down on the spot to return thanks to God for their preservation, not knowing that the spot was sacred to Oro, one of their idols. The Rurutus said immediately, “This people will die." The party also ate inadvertently on a sacred spot; and when the Rurutus saw that, they said, "No doubt they will die for this trespass on the sacred ground;" and looking earnestly, expected some one to have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly; but after they had looked a considerable time, and saw no harm come to them, they changed their minds, and said, "Surely their's is the truth; but perhaps the god will come in the night and kill them: we will wait and see." One man actually went in the night to the wife of the chief (Auura,) who also ate a part of a hog, or turtle, on the sacred spot, and said, "Are you still alive?" When the morning arrived, and the Rurutuans found no harm had happened to any of them, they became exceedingly disgusted at their having been deceived so long by the evil spirit.

POLAND.--JEWS' SOCIETY..

THE following letter from the Rev. R. Knill, in the employ of the London Missionary Society, will be read with interest. It is dated

St. Petersburgh, 3d April, 1822. INTELLIGENCE from the German Missionaries under the patronage of the Edinburgh Jewish Society, states, "At Berditchev, we tarried several days. This place may be termed little Jerusalem in Poland, for it contains 30,000 Jews. Our conversations with them were of a highly interesting and important nature. Thousands of them received our books and tracts, and heard what we said of Jesus as the true Messiah. The prejudices of many seemed to give way, and they confess

ed that they thought it probable that the Messiah was already come. Several interesting young Jews were with us constantly, and heard all the conversation between us and their people, and at last requested that they might, by some means or other, he taught in this way more perfectly. We cannot say that any of them are really converted, as time only can prove it, but we have great reason to hope, that in a few of them the good seed will spring up, and bring forth fruit to the glory of God. A wide and interesting field is here thrown open to the Christian church."

DANTZIG.-JEWS SOCIETY.

Letter from a converted Jew.

"When the Jews at Dantzig learnt that I distributed tracts, their superior (the chief Rabbi, I suppose) came to me, and begged to have some tracts. I conversed with him, and made him attentive to the Psalms and the Prophets, by which a Jew ought to be convinced, that Jesus, our Redeemer, is the Messiah. He said, that the Dantzig youth (Jewish of course) would pass over certainly to Christianity, but that it would be difficult for this to happen with the old." He then begs me to send him tracts and Bibles for the Jews.-Consider what it was for the head Rabbi to come on such an errand, and to whom? a converted Jew,~in their eyes a renegado.

UNITED STATES.-GREAT OSAGE MISSION.

THE following information was communicated by Mr. Samuel Newton, to the Editor of the Kentucky "Christian Repository," and published in that paper of August 30th. It contains an account of the mission as late as the 28th of July last; and represents the mission as being, on the whole, in a prosperous state.

DEAR SIR,-Since my communication in March last, our school has experienced some changes. The number then with us was 18; since that time we have dismissed one for bad conduct, sent one home who was young and hard to manage, two have ran away, and three have been taken away by their parents ;-but the eleven who remain seem permanent scholars. They have been some time with us, and evidently are much attached to us and our customs. The boys, by our regulations, are called three times each day to labour. They are first called at sunrise and labour one hour; at 8 o'clock they are called the second time to labour, and labour awhile and go direct from labouring to school; again at 1 o'clock they are called to labour, and are engaged at labour and in the school four hours. The boys generally perform their tasks cheerfully and adroitly; yet, there is so much of the Indian remaining, that evidently they would often like to be excused.-The girls are equally, or, perhaps, more tractable and apt to learn than the boys.-They sew, wash, and work in the kitchen, at intervals.

June. We have been much engaged in preparing and erecting a mill. The frame is raised for a grist and saw-mill united, worked by water.

The annual rise of the creek has prevented the erecting of the dam; the running part is nearly ready. We have progressed with our agricultural pursuits prosperously;-have split between 14,000 and 15.000 rails and stakes, enclosed 5 fields, a door yard of 6 acres, garden of 4 acres, cornfield of 40 acres, potatoe plot of 2 acres, and pasture of 40 acres. The garden, cornfield and potatoe plot are all in cultivation. Our team consists of five horses, and 12 oxen. We have 35 cows, and a good selection of beef and young cattle. We are gaining confidence with the Osages. Several of the principal men, when they were about to take their summer's hunt, brought their treasures and left them with us for safe keeping, until their return. The village is wholly broken up-not one individual in it-all gone a hunting-but not all gone together.-They have taken various routes in small parties. They will return when their corn which is planted at the village becomes fit for roasting.

July. The Indians have many of them returned. It is thought they have been quite successful in hunting. Recently, we have been much elated on account of several of the Indians coming and offering to labour for us. We give them employ when we have work that they can do ;At hoeing we allow them the same that we pay our white labourers.— We have had seven of these red men at a time. An old man came and wanted work. He was told we could not give him. He seemed somewhat displeased; said the white men were at work, (alluding to our steady labourers who were mowing,) evidently thinking that he might have work as well as they. The first Indian who came to labour since the hunt, commenced hoeing late in the afternoon; at night he said he would come next day.-Accordingly, about the middle of A. M. he came and commenced hoeing. At noon, he gave us to understand that he wanted four dollars for what he had done. He was encouraged to continue hoeing until night, and he should be properly rewarded-at night the Superintendent paid him for one day's work, concluding that the two parts would equal a whole day. The Indian took the 50 cent piece, (the sum which we pay labourers by the day,) and rolled it over and over in his hand, looking very sober, and then returned it, in token that it was not enough;-but being assured that it was as much as the white men received, who hoed with him, he again took the money, and, after being presented with a little tobacco, was highly delighted. The next day he again came to labour. notwithstanding his hands were blistered, and several others with him. It has been said that Indians would not work, and that they could not be made to work ;--but we think otherwise; and believe, that the result of a few years will prove it to be otherwise.-Indeed, their progress will be slow; the commencement will be made by but few, and those few will need to be led step by step, that others beholding may be convinced of the utility and pleasure of labouring to procure a subsistence, in preference to their depending on the uncertainty of the chase. Examples presented to the eye of an Indian, do far more to convince, than fine speeches directed to the understanding.

The Mission Family are in general health. Several have had slight touches of the ague and fever. Ill health has occasioned the delay in finishing this letter. Yours in esteem, SAMUEL NEWTON.

REVIVALS OF RELIGION.

Extract of a letter from a minister of the Gospel in Norfolk, Va. to his friend in Philadelphia, dated August 12, 1822.

We believe God has graciously revived the languishing graces of some of his people here, and is exciting very strong expectations of a general outpouring of his Spirit upon his churches here. That you may judge correctly of our present state, I will mention some recent occurrences. Last Friday week, at the urgent request of Rev. Benjamin Rice, I visited Petersburgh, where a glorious work of revival has been experienced for the last three weeks, in the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. To the former thirty-seven, and to the latter fifty new converts have been added since the work began, and it is rapidly progressing. Many are inquiring "What they should do to be saved ?" I staid in Petersburgh six days and a half, during which time I attended twenty meetings, which were all crowded, solemn and attentive. The last Thursday before I left them we held three meetings. The first continued five hours; and during that time, three young ladies, and two young gentlemen, before under deep impressions, professed conversion, and rejoiced in hope of the glory of God. In the afternoon, one or two more obtained peace, and in the course of the afternoon a great number appeared to be deeply convicted. In this state I the next morning left them. Four or five of my people were in Petersburgh with me, and obtained from God rich spiritual blessings.

On my return last Saturday evening, I attended a revival prayer-meeting which has been established at my house a few weeks, and has been attended by about ten male members of the church. At the close of that meeting, in which all was cold and cheerless as the grave, I proposed a meeting at sunrise the next morning. About eight persons attended; and, in a short time after the meeting began, the Spirit seemed all at once to seize on every soul present, and not a single heart remained unmelted, and not a dry eye was seen in the room during the remainder of the meeting which lasted about two hours. We then separated till 9 o'clock, when we met again and were joined by a few more, and all seemed equally as much impressed as in the sunrise meeting. After the morning service in the church, another prayer-meeting was appointed at three o'clock; and at the hour, both the lower rooms, and passages and front pavement of my house were crowded. At night a still larger house was crowded. In both meetings very deep and solemn impressions seem to have been made on the hearts both of saints and sinners. At sunrise this morning, my house was again crowded with males and females, ardently praying for a revival; most of them on their knees renewed their covenant with God, and pledged themselves to attend these meetings every morning, until the Lord revives his work. Six convicted sinners stood up in the meeting this morning, and thus expressed their anxiety for the salvation of their souls, and their desire of a special interest in the prayers of God's people. Thus much the Lord has already done for us, and our hearts are glad. Dear friends, I beg an interest in your prayers that I may be sustained and have grace to be faithful. Rel. Remembrancer.