1825.] 
slayes and savages of two-thirds of the 
globe, togo on in peace and amity in their 
universal work, without stigmatizing and 
quarrelling with each other about creeds 
and ceremonies; and to shew, by their 
charity,-and mutual forbearance, that 
they have themselves a Christianity 
worth.diffusing: for, if they have no 
better,Christianity than that which is 
shewn by the Jesuits, either of the Ro- 
man{Communion or the Quarterly Re- 
view, or by the Controversialists of 
whatever other sect, “let the heathen,” 
we would say, “ go on, and grope his 
own way by the light, or by the dark- 
ness, of nature: he cannot be worse 
‘than these pretended Christians would 
make him.” 
But a word about the Missions them- 
selves, as far as the Reviewer makes 
out their story. He says much of their 
money-raising exertions, it will be seen 
(and it will be seen how little of this 
pertains to the Church of England So- 
cieties)—but comparatively little of re- 
sults. 
“The receipts of the Society for Pro- 
moting Christian Knowledge were little 
more than £12,000 in 1805, when the 
Bible Society was instituted: they now 
exceed £53,000. Ten years ago a mourn- 
ful estimate was made, that the annual in- 
come of all the Bible and Missionary So- 
cieties in the British empire would not do 
more than defray the yearly maintenance 
of one ship of the line. Now it is an- 
nounced, and with becoming exultation, 
that the expenditure amounts to more 
than a thousand pounds daily throughout 
the year; and that the Scriptures have 
been published in one hundred and forty 
Janguages.”’ 
__It should not be forgotten, that one 
of the North American Missioners has 
published in the United States, and the 
book has been re-published here (See 
M.M. Vol. 59, p. 254), some account of 
these translations, which makes, not 
only, their probable fidelity very doubt- 
ful; but brings into some question how 
many, of these translations (into East- 
Indian dialects, especially) have ever 
been read. Some of the natives, 
it seems, have been, at least, converted 
into so-much of the craft of Christian 
book-making, as to undertake the task 
with very little knowledge either of the 
language they were to translate from, 
‘or that into which they were to trans- 
late; some, translations, it seems, have 
been made into pretended languages 
that never had existence. But to proceed. 
* No minister, however expert in the 
‘art of ‘rifising money, could ever succeed 
‘in putting so many ways and means in mo- 
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tion, as have been devised by the ingenuity - 
of missionary directors and collectors, or 
suggested by those who took a lively in- 
terest in the cause... Large sums are con- 
tinually produced by penny a week sub- 
scriptions, ‘ It has been calculated,’ says 
the London Missionary Society in alate 
report, ‘ that if every house in Great Bri- 
tain raised only one penny per week, the 
product would be £450,000 per annum.’ 
It is curious to look over the reports, and 
observe by what various devices the amount 
of the yearly receipts is swollen. A little 
is done by missionary boxes, in shops or in 
private houses, like the poor-boxes in our 
churches. Schools and juyenile societies 
supply more; a great ceal is raised by 
* Ladies’ Branch Societies, or Associa- 
tions ;’ something from the sale of pin- 
cushions, and ladies’ work of all kinds. In 
an Evangelical Magazine before us, these 
items appear—by selling matches, £1. 3s. ; _ 
by lending tracts, £2. Os. Gd. ; Sunday- 
school boys, ‘7s. 6d. ; produce of the sale of 
ornamental mouse-traps, £1. 4s. 6d.. One 
“tradesman, in a small way,’ Jays aside, for 
this purpose, the odd pence in every day’s 
receipts, and recommends others to follow 
his example; another, in still humbler life, 
does the same with the farthings. The 
wife of a Greenwich pensioner presented 
to a late Wesleyan Missionary meeting at 
Greenwich, a bag containing nine hundred 
and sixty farthings. One person gives every 
year the produce of a cherry-tree.* Some- 
times a Sunday-school girl presents a por- 
tion of her earnings. Sometimes the work- 
men at a manufactory contribute largely, 
and, not unfrequently, servants make their 
contribution in proportions which eyince a 
noble spirit. Ifan item now and then ap- 
pears, which may raise a smile, there are 
others which excite a different feeling. One 
sum of £100, and another of £150, are 
given as offerings to God foran unexpected 
accession of fortune. One of the last 
Missionary Registers acknowledges ten 
pounds as a thank-offering on the reco- 
very of a child. A lady presents thirty 
pounds as the produce of her jewels; 
and a blind basket-girl as many shillings, 
being the amount of what candles must have 
cost her during the winter, if she had had 
eyes to see.”’> 
But 
* Perhaps the oddest contribution is that 
which was thus announced in one of the ad- 
vertisements on the covers of the Evange- 
lical Magazine :—‘ James Crabb takes the 
liberty to inform missionaries of every deno- 
mination, that he will supply each, at their 
going from England, with a case of pickles, 
gratis : apply with a reference. And, like- 
wise, J.C. has for sale, oils, &c./of the 
first qualities, on the lowest, terms, for 
ready money.’ Be ee 
t Let us hear the admissions, of. the 
High Church Reviewer himself, upon the 
subject of exertion in the cause—* 
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