Missionary Advocate. As the missionary year will hereafter commence with January instead of May, the Board have not deemed it necessary to print a full pamphlet Report for this year. Nevertheless, the present document is unusually valuable and interesting-so much so that we think it advisable to put its prominent points into a more permanent form in our own pages.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1853.-On the 8th of November, 1852, the General Missionary Committee met in New-York, to make the appropriations for 1853. After ascertaining the wants of the DOMESTIC MISSIONS, the question was taken up, Shall we extend our missionary work abroad? It was necessary to determine three preliminary questions in order to answer this main question. First, Was the general sentiment of the Church in favour of such extension? On this point the Committee, the Bishops, and the Board, felt no doubt, as their general intercourse with the Church, as well as the resolutions of several Annual Conferences and of the General Conference, and the correspondence with the office of the Corresponding Secretary, gave full assurance. The second question was, Whether the Church was able to sustain an extension of her missions? Of this there could be no doubt. It only remained to inquire whether there were fields open to such extension? It was only necessary to lift up our eyes and look upon the fields, for, lo! they were already white unto the harvest.

1. India.-A mission was authorized in India, and it will be instituted so soon as the Bishop can command the services of the proper men.

2. Bulgaria. The question of taking a part in resuscitating the old Oriental Churches within the Turkish empire was then taken up, and interesting and satisfactory information was produced in favour of sending a missionary into the country to the south of the Danube, into Bulgaria. These people are of the Greek Church, though not of the Greek nation, and are fallen into as deep superstition and darkness as any of the Oriental Churches; and yet they are not so bigoted, but are of a mild, inquiring, religious disposition, and exceedingly athirst for the word of God. It was believed to be our duty to send a missionary to these people at as early a day as practicable, and accordingly the Bishop was authorized to institute a mission in Bulgaria. It is believed that this mission can be prosecuted without much difficulty,

under the protection of the Turkish government, which has granted full and universal toleration to the Protestant Churches.

3. France. The relations of France with Europe cannot be comprehended except by those who are very well informed on European affairs. France has never been thoroughly Roman Catholic: she has been jealous of the Papal authority, and has always claimed to be the Gallic Church; and not strictly the Roman Catholic Church, but the Gallic Catholic Church. And although she has received the institution of her bishops at the hands of the Pope, she has never yielded to him the absolute authority to appoint them without her knowledge and

consent.

Here is a tangible point to which the Protestant evangelical missions may attach themselves, and find favour and fruit among the people. A wide door was open in the city of Nice, in Sardinia, which is the gateway on the Mediterranean between France and Italy. An intelligent evangelical French minister was in the midst of the work, and was ready to prosecute it if aided. The appropriation was made, to be expended under the direction of Rev. Charles Cooke, D. D., President of the French Methodist Conference. We have, therefore, a good guarantee that the ap propriation will be well expended.

4. Italy.-Information has reached the Board that the door is wide open into the higher Alps, on the borders of Italy, into the valleys occupied by the good and great Felix Neff. The French Methodist Conference now occupies this region by Mr. Rostan, one of their missionaries, and Dr. Cooke earnestly appealed to our Board to enable him to send another missionary to aid Mr. Rostan. We have authorized him to do so for us, and have made him a grant towards employing three other suitable men who are ready to enter the work if he could receive them. Yet we have kept our grants within the appropriations.

The details of the appropriations are as follows:

The Report next proceeds to explain at length the plans for raising Missionary funds established at the last General Conference, (Discipline, Part iii, chap. iv;) and also the plan, or rather the machinery, for carrying on the Missionary work itself. Then follows a summary of the Missions themselves, which we condense as follows:

Classification of Missions.

Our missions are divided into two principal classes, Domestic and Foreign. The Domestic Missions are subdivided into three classes:-1. Missions to those who speak the English language in the destitute or new portions of the country; 2. To the Indians; 3. To the foreigners who have settled together in various portions of the country, and in particular quarters of our cities. Of these, our missions to the Germans are the most numerous and successful; but we have missions to the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, and French. As our Domestic are our oldest missions, and at present, perhaps, the most important, we will speak of them first.

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OUR FOREIGN MISSIONS are necessarily few, and as yet small in influence and extent, because they have been but recently instituted. We have not been organized as a Church yet seventy years, during which time our action and unexampled growth have necessarily been confined mainly to our own country.

THE AFRICAN MISSION, in the Republic of Liberia, on the western coast of Africa, is our oldest foreign mission. When the American Colonization Society laid the foundations of this Republic by planting a colony there, many members of our Church, and one or two local preachers, were among the colonists. These constituted the nucleus of the mission which was established some twenty or twenty-five years ago. It has cost much treasure, and some precious lives; but

the fruits of it are inestimable. It is now formed into a regular annual conference, composed of three presiding elders' districts, each with its circuits, stations, and day and Sunday schools. The mission

now covers the whole territory of Liberia and the territory of the Maryland colony at Cape Palmas, and has access to the whole colonial population, amounting to, say seventy-five hundred, and to the numerous towns and villages of the natives, who amount to, say one hundred and forty thousand. The annual conference consists of twenty-one members in full connexion and on trial, and there are in all the Churches twelve hundred and fiftyseven communicants, being about one in seven of the whole colonial population. There are twenty Sunday schools, containing seven hundred and thirty-one scholars; one day school at Cape Palmas; and one girls' school at Millsburgh, under the care of Mrs. Wilkins; and a fine new academy in Monrovia, under the care of Rev. James W. Horne as principal. And to give more efficiency to this mission one of our beloved bishops (Bishop Scott) is at this present writing (Feb. 12) in Africa, superintending the conference, ordaining

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1,130 127 20 20 731 100 20 1,643 18 517 2 OUR CHINA MISSION was instituted about seven years ago, and has already offered up two precious lives in its holy cause-Mrs. Jane Isabel White, wife of Rev. M. C. White; and the Rev. Judson Dwight Collins, of the Michigan ConferThe brethren who are there have unrestrained access to the people of FuhChau; and are preaching, instituting schools, and translating and printing the province. Fifty years ago there was not Holy Scriptures in the dialect of the one Protestant missionary in China; now there are nearly one hundred. Twenty years ago China was accessible only at one point, (Canton,) and here only under great restraint and jealousy; now, the five principal cities on the coast are freely open, and are occupied by Protestant missionaChau, and Shanghai; and through these ries, namely, Canton, Amoy, Ningpo, Fuhcities free access is had to preach to twenty millions of Pagan Chinese, and to distribute books throughout the southern and eastern parts of the empire. We add a list of our missionaries now in Fuh-Chau: Rev. R. S. Maclay, Superintendent, FuhChau, China.

The word of the Lord immediately began to take effect, and to spread, so that it was necessary to send out additional missionaries. The mission has extended itself formally to Hamburgh on the North, and to Frankfort on the South, and its influence has penetrated all the surrounding States, and is established in the kingdom of Wurtemburg. We give a list of the missionaries :

L. S. Jacoby, superintendent. E. Riemenschneider, Frankfort-on-theMaine.

C. H. Doering, Hamburgh.

L. Nippert, Wurtemberg.

H. Nuelsen, Bremen Circuit.
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Gluck, helper in Wurtemberg.

Counting the membership of the Church at 700,000, the average of the contributions for 1852 is 23 7-10 cents per member very nearly. The appropriations for 1853 are $210,000, being an advance over the receipts of 1852 of $44,283; and to make up the estimates for 1853, the contributions, assuming still 700,000 members, must be exactly 30 cents per member throughout the whole Church, or an advance on the contributions of twenty-five per cent., or one-quarter more for each member this year than last.

Now, if every member will, from a sense of duty, give twenty-five cents, those members who give more, from a sense of duty and from ability, will make up the amount required for 1853. And if each pastor of a Church will, timely, and in an earnest and affectionate manner, ask his Church and congregation to make their arrangements to do this, by means of collectors provided for in the Discipline, and the annual collection and contributions on some Sunday in the year, the money will be freely and gladly contributed, and our missions greatly extended and generously supported.

WE Continue our statement of the contents of the principal American Theological Journals:

Mercersburg Quarterly Review, for January-I. The Review and the Quarterly: II. Parochial, or Christian Schools: III. The Church of the Middle Ages: IV. The Behemoth and Leviathan of the Book of Job: V. Dr. Nevin and his Antagonists: VI. German Theology and the Church Question.

Free-Will Baptist Quarterly, for January: -I. Introductory: II. The Progress and Defects of Christian Civilization: III. Modern Sceptical Tendencies: IV. Daniel Webster: V. Hebrew Poetry: VI. Soul Freedom: VII. Religious Biography: VIII. Notices.

New-York Quarterly, for January :-I. R. W. Emerson: II. Life and Letters of Niebuhr: III. New Works on Slavery: IV. Disclosures from the Interior: V. Bancroft's United States-from the French of Count Circourt: VI. Science-European and American Researches: VII. Outline Drawings: VIII. Scenes and Thoughts in Europe: IX. Kitto's Daily Bible Illustrations: X. Contemporary Literature.

Evangelical Review, for January :—I. Symbolism not opposed to Evangelical Religion: II. Elemental Contrast of the Religion: III. Apstolic Fathers: IV. Notes on Prophecy: V. Contribution to the Christology of the Church: VI. The Church and her Ministry.

Brownson's Quarterly Review, for January:-I. The Worship of Mary: II. The Two Orders, Spiritual and Temporal: III. Father Gury's Moral Theology: IV. Protestantism not a Religion: V. Catholics of England and Ireland.

Theological and Literary Journal, for January:-I. Dr. Hitchcock's Religion of Geology: II. The neglect of the Sacred Scriptures: III. Dr. Wordsworth's Lectures

on the Apocalypse: IV. A Designation and Exposition of the Figures of Isaiah, chap. xxiii: V. The Fulness of the Times: VI. Mr. Williamson's Letter to a Millenarian: VII. The reestablishment of the Napoleon Dynasty.

North American Review, for January:-I. Life and Letters of Niebuhr: II. Herbert's Captains of the Old World: III. Sir Wm. Hamilton on Philosophy and Education: IV. Novels and Novelists: V. Weber's Universal History: VI. Frere's Version of Aristophanes: VII. Farini's Republic at Rome VIII. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Christian Examiner, for January:-I. Recent Aspects of Judaism: II. Shall we introduce some Liturgical or Ritual Forms in our Worship? III. Reflections: IV. The Council of Ephesus: V. The Evangelical and the Philosophical Spirit in Religion: VI. Gray's Addresses: VII. Bartol's Dis

courses.

Universalist Quarterly and General Review, for January:-I. Astronomy-Immortality: II. The Apostles and Saints judging Israel and the World: III. Condition of Men after Death: IV. Christ and the Scriptures: V. What must we do to be saved? VI. Literary Notices.

Biblical Repertory, for January:-I. Outlines of Moral Science: II. Epistle to Diognetus: III. Modern Millenarianism:

IV. China and California: V. Theology of the Old Testament: VI. Ventilation of Churches.

Bibliotheca Sacra, and American Biblical Repository, (Andover,) for January:-L. Socrates as a Teacher: II. The Right Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures-the Helps and the Hinderances: III. The Works of Samuel Hopkins: IV. Prolegomena to Tischendorf's New Edition of the Septuagint: V. Outlines of a Journey in Palestine in 1852, by E. Robinson, E. Smith, and others: VI. College Course, and its Enlargements for Graduates: VII. The Relations and consequent Mutual Duties between the Philosopher and the Theologian.

Southern Presbyterian Review, for January:-I. The claims of the English Language: II. Unregeneracy in the Ministry: III. The Doctrine of Future Punishment: IV. Inspiration versus Morell's Theory: V. The Presbyterian Church and Foreign Missions: VI. Our Ecclesiastical Literature: VII. Necrology-Rev. Wm. H. Burr, D. D.

Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for January :-I. Reason and Revelation: II. Fundamental Element of Church Government: III. Philosophical Necessity: IV. Ecclesiastical Forms: V. Roman Literature: VI. Inskip on Methodism: VII. Zechariah.

WE have received the first volume of a copious and elaborate Life of Cicero, under the title, Leben des M. Tullius Cicero, von C. A. F. BRUCKNER, Erster Theil. (Göttingen, 1852; 8vo., pp. 865.)

THE Second Series of Mr. Layard's “Monuments of Nineveh" was announced for publication in London in January, but we have not yet seen it. It is to be in one volume, folio, with 70 plates, containing Specimens of the most remarkable Sculptures, Bas-Reliefs, Bronzes, &c., principally illustrative of the Wars and Exploits of Sennacherib, from his Palace at Kouyunjik, discovered by Mr. Layard during his second visit to Assyria. It has been ascertained, from inscriptions lately deciphered, that the Palace of Kouyunjik, excavated by Mr. Layard, was built by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and that its Sculptures represent events recorded in Sacred History, 2 Kings, chaps. xvii and xviii. The corresponding treatise for general circulation is also soon to be issued under

the title of Nineveh and Babylon: being the Narrative of a Second Expedition to Assyria. By AUSTEN H. LAYARD, M. P. With 400 plates and wood-cuts. One vol., 8vo.

THE Encyclopædia Britannica is now in press in an eighth edition, under the editorship of THOMAS STEWART TRAILL, M. D., F. R. S. E., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh. It was first published in three volumes 4to., 1771; next in ten volumes, in 1778; in eighteen volumes in 1797, to which was added the SUPPLEMENT, in two volumes, by BISHOP GLEIG, in 1801; this was followed by an edition in twenty volumes, in 1810, and other two editions during the succeeding ten years; to which was added the celebrated SUPPLEMENT, in six volumes 4to., edited by Professor NAPIER, commenced in 1815, and finished in 1824. The Eighth Edition will undergo careful revision and extensive correction. Articles rendered imperfect by the lapse of time