change wrought in this Arab; and many are the endeavours to turn him away from the faith. He is well known to the Emirs, to the Patriarch, to all the Bishops and Priests, and to nearly all the people of Lebanon; and, on account of his superior talents and acquirements, his influence is much dreaded by all those who oppose the circulation and contradict the truths of the Holy Scriptures. We have seen no Native, who appeared to possess a more vigorous mind, and who had a greater command of the Arabic Language. Before the Emirs, and in the presence of the highest Ecclesiastical Authorities of the country, in the midst of obloquy and in the face of danger, he has witnessed a good confession; and we cannot but hope, that God has raised him up to be an instrument of great good to his people. The name of this convert is Asaad. In April, Mr.Goodell gives these further particulars

Asaad has fallen into the hands of the enemies of the Gospel, who threaten his life: we have some fears that he will suffer mar.

tyrdom, and have a daily prayer-meeting on his account. His youngest Brother will, probably, be obliged to leave his Father's house, in consequence of adopting the same views of Divine Truth: he has already been beaten, and threatened with every thing terrible: but, though his understanding is convinced, he does not yet appear to have felt, like his brother Asaad, the power of religion in his own soul. Never has this Mission called more loudly for the prayers of God's people.

Under date of May 31, 1826, Goodell writes

Schools are, of course, suspended for the present. But the protection which we have afforded to many persons, of all the different Christian Sects, appears to have made a favourable impression. Within a few days, we have also had evidence that the truthi is prevailing; that some of the good seed sown is springing up; and that the little leaven, which has been cast into this mighty mass, is spreading. We bless God that we were brought hither, even though we should now be destroyed. We believe the good work will go on, though we should be cut off. We commit our way to the Lord, and in His faithful hands leave our souls and our bodies.

Of the state and increase of the Schools (which were eight in number, in the month of July) an account was given at pp. 291, 292 of our last Volume: on this subject Mr. Goodell wrote, a little before the disturbances just mentioned

Our Schools are all in a prosperous state. We have recently established a School for the Jewish Children in Beyrout: once, it seemed impossible, the Jews looked on us with so much jealousy; but frequent intercourse and much conversation with them have softened their prejudices and secured their confidence.

The Armenians have much attracted the attention of the Missionaries: see P. 56 of the last Survey: the Missionaries thus speak of them

To the Armenians God has opened a door of usefulness, by bringing some men of influMr.ence in their Church to an open renunciation of their former errors and to a speculative written to their Brethren in various parts, belief of opposite truths. They have already exposing the errors of the Church and the wickedness of the Clergy; and we cannot but hope, that it is the design of Providence to make them Reformers of the age.

Mr. Bird has sent very copious journals of Asaad should they reach you, they will fill you with joy. Poor Asaad, we are told, is now in prison, loaded with chains, and sadly beaten every day for the sake of Christ, by order of the Patriarch. We have never before seen so much to encourage us to speak to these people. TRUTH CUTS HERE LIKE A

TWO-EDGED SWORD.

The Missionaries were exposed, in the early part of last year, to much trouble in consequence of a descent made on the coast, on the 18th and 19th of March, by a body of Greeks, consisting of 500 men: the Turks, after repulsing the invaders and pillaging the country, retired; but their places were soon supplied by a body of Albanians and Bedouins, sent by the Pacha of Acre to assist the Turks. The Bedouins plundered whereever they could: they broke openly into Mr. Goodell's house, robbed him of several hundred dollars, and compelled him to retire for safety with Mrs. Goodell within the walls of the town. By the prompt and efficient measures of the English Consul the money was recovered. Mr. Goodell thus speaks of the influence of these disturbances on the Mission

How this Mission will be affected by these civil commotions, it is impossible to say. Our

Besides one Armenian Archbishop at Sidon and another at Beyrout who have married, it is said that a third has followed in the same course. Mr. Goodell writes to Mr. Jowett at Malta, under date of the 26th of July

The wrath of man is increasing, and the Gospel Trumpet sounding louder and louder. Another Armenian Priest has come, this week, from Aleppo to join us. Last week, a Greek Catholic Bishop sent his Deacon four times to converse with an individual in Sidon, whom he suspected of joining our Faith; but the individual used such unanswerable arguments with the Deacon as to bring him over to the same views. There is much excitementmuch opposition-severe persecution—a great deal of chaff-and, we hope, a little wheat: Oh pray for those who become truly godly. The Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, to human view, that bonds and afflictions abide them; unless, as we devoutly pray, a great company of the Priests become obedient to the faith.

He adds, in a Postcript of the 29thI cannot tell you how glad we are to find Dr. Green's Questions [Arabic] in your box. That Tract is very much needed here at the

present time; when many are inquiring, not only concerning the truth, but also concerning their own state; and some are beginning to entertain hopes, we fear fallaciously, that they have been renewed-putting conviction for conversion; and change of views, for a change of heart.

Albania-The Committee continue under obligations to the Rev. Isaac Lowndes, Secretary of the Ionian Bible Society, for his attention to the Albanian Version. The Gospel of St. Matthew, printed and bound at the expense of the Ionian Bible Society, has been distributed and received with the greatest joy; so that whenever the Gospel for the day occurs in St. Matthew, it is regularly read in the Churches from this New Version. Another person has reported, that, when the people Details, at large, appear at pp. 383-heard that they should soon have a portion of the New Testament in their own language, they were quite in raptures; and, from the report of the Ionian Bible Society, the following extract may be taken

BIBLE SOCIETIES.

CIRCULATION OF THE SCRIPTURES.

389, 423, 424 of our last Volume, relative to the proceedings of Mr. Barker, Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Syria and Asia Minor; and of the Rev. H. D. Leeves, its other Agent, at and near Constantinople. From the Twenty-second Report of the Society, we collect the following particulars relative to the further Circulation of the Scriptures in these Seas.

Constantinople-The transactions of the Rev. H. D. Leeves yield in interest to none of any preceding year. The circulation of the Sacred Volume, it will be remembered, had received a check at the time of the last Report being presented: the lost ground has since been recovered: the issues this year have amounted to 7084 copies, being an increase of nearly 4000 on those of the preceding. The whole sum received at the Depository is 16,974 piastres; and Mr. Leeves observes: "This proof of the willingness of the different Inhabitants of this country, Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, to supply themselves, in a period of considerable poverty, with the Word of God, will be very satisfactory to the Committee." These issues have been in fourteen different languages.

A very pleasing demand has been awakened for the Hebrew Scriptures in particular. In one Letter, Mr. Leeves writes, "The 1000 Hebrew Psalters are already almost all sold; and I beg the Committee to send me as many thousands as they can spare." In the same Letter, he observes, "I am sorry to say that I have little prospect of disposing of those copies of the Bible which have the New Testament attached to them." But, in the next intelligence sent, he mentions that an unexpected inquiry had been made for them also; and that he had reason to know that a con. siderable spirit of inquiry was excited among many of the Jewish Nation in that quarter. There have been sent, during the year, 3000 Hebrew Psalters, 100 Bibles, and 550 Old Testaments.

Adrianople-This city has been again visit-|| ed by Mr. Barker; and arrangements were made for transmitting copies to several places in its vicinity. A merchant in this city had just returned from a fair, where he had sold 120 Greek Testaments. "That Gentleman assured me," writes Mr. Barker, "that he experienced no trouble in selling the books: they were placed by the side of his merchandize, and the people of the fair soon bought them all; and many more might have been disseminated thus, had he taken with him a larger supply.

"The Albanian Dialect had never been brought to a written standard till the Com mittee accomplished it, and printed the Gospel of St. Matthew. By this measure, Albania may be regarded as a conquest in favour of the Word of God; and the inhabitants, who have lived so many years in ignorance of the Gospel, begin now to read for themselves or with the assistance of others, that book which contains it in their own language. The printing of the entire new Testament in Albanian and Modern Greek commenced in January last."

Missolonghi-In the labours of the Ionian Bible Society, a place is mentioned which will excite feelings of sympathy-Missolonghi. A correspondent at this place writes: "You will have learnt from the Greek Newspapers that the Sacred Volume has been distributed in many provinces of Western and Eastern Greece; among Schools, Monasteries, and more particularly among the Soldiery. The Greeks have everywhere received this sacred boon with the greatest enthusiasm. Many villages have sent deputies to apply on their behalf for Testaments: 1127 copies have been sent to this place." The English Scriptures have been asked for from this quarter, and 100 Bibles and 150 Testaments have been sent.

Malta-The Society's active friends have distributed 5528 copies, in twenty different languages. The issue of 2169 copies of the Ancient and Modern Greek Testament is a consolatory fact. The Rev. Mr. Jowett writes, when asking for a further supply of 2000 copies-" The Divine Judgments appear to be ploughing deep furrows through the length and breadth of Greece: we should grieve to think, at the appointed time for sowing, that corn-seed was wanting; but we are persuaded that the compassion of the British and Foreign Bible Society will not suffer this to be the case." The desired supplies have been voted: 1000 Arabic Gospels, and 100 Acts of the Apostles, together with 500 Ethiopic Psalters, have likewise been forwarded; and an opening has occurred for bringing into use the Amharic Gospels, which the Society has printed, the Malta Committee having solicited 200 copies, to be put into the hands of the Missionaries from the Church Missionary Society, about to proceed to the country where that language is used.

Smyrna-No interruption has been offered to the labours of Mr. Barker; and, from February 10 to December 31, he had issued 1241 copies by sale at low prices, and had given away only 54. To the Depot at this place,

the following volumes have been granted || continual correspondence will be kept up beduring the last year-500 Hebrew Psalters, 400 Hebrew Old Testaments, and 100 complete Hebrew Bibles: for these latter there appears to be a great demand at this place, as well as at Constantinople; and from Beyrout, likewise, the late Rev. Mr. Fisk, the American Missionary, wrote to the Malta Committee, that a Jew had purchased, to sell again, 113 copies.

Your Committee have to record with gratitude that a destructive fire, which broke out Subsequent intelligence has been reat Galata, was not permitted to reach your ceived from Mr. Barker in connection Depository. Serious apprehensions were enwith Smyrna: he thus speaks, in a Let-printing the Turco-Greek New-Testament, în tertained, and some delay has occurred in ter of the 2d of September, of some of consequence of its being necessary to take the the inhabitants of Maughalitch, between presses to pieces, in the event of their removal Constantinople and Smyrnabeing required: the work has been since completed; and 3000 copies have been struck off, being 1000 more than originally intended -a change fully justified by the openings for its circulation now presenting themselves.

bility be enjoyed there by their European better health which would in all probaTeachers, while the nature of its climate is such as not to endanger their own. Mr. Jowett most readily fell in with the suggestion; and, in stating various adVantages of establishing such an Institution at Malta, adds

The Boys have Schools, which all, even of || ing to West-African Students by the the poorer classes, generally attend: the great want of books suited to their capacity is deeply felt; and, when at Ithaca, the applications made to me for Tracts and Small Books were innumerable. At Malta there is a Press which is constantly at work, and from thence we procured these Tracts; and Mr. Wilson has lately published a School Book, which is eagerly sought for by the Greeks. Portions of Scripture, gathered in a book, would be highly acceptable.

This Island is, in itself, but a small field for labour; but it may be converted, by a suf-judicious use of its advantages, into a very profitable nursery-ground.

The health of Mr. Andrews was ficiently restored, as it was stated in the last Survey, to admit of his giving some assistance in the Printing Office; but he gradually declined, and died in peace (see p. 511 of our last Volume) on the 4th of September. His Widow continues to occupy herself, most usefully to the Mission, in superintending and conducting the department of BookBinding: she has two Young Women under her; and, for the more laborious work, the occasional help of a man: the|| Cause in which she is occupied is the choice of her heart; and, in promoting it, she wishes to live and to die.

We give to the Press the chief place in the business of this Station, as it is becoming an engine of direct and extensive influence in these Seas. The American Missionaries and their Society have the same view of this Station; and are, in like manner, availing themselves of its advantages; and a Press is about to be established here by the London Missionary Society.

As, however, no direct communication yet exists between Malta and Western Africa, this consideration has, among others, led the Committee to attempt, for the present, the revival and enlargement of the Christian Institution in Sierra Leone.

In the course of the correspondence with Mr. Jowett on this subject, he furnished an account of the Climate of Malta, which it may be advantageous to subjoin.

The thermometer varies, during the months of June, July, and August, from 85° to 90° and 95° Fahrenheit: 95° is a very uncommon case with us: some summers are far hotter than others: I should fix 95° as the maximum, though I have seen it for a very few days together as high as 98o in the day and 920 in the night. The position of the Island, advantage of sea-breeze during the night, in the midst of the Mediterranean, brings no

for the greater half of these three months: if the thermometer is 90° at mid-day, it is not lower than 880 at midnight: this occasions an oppressive heat, without alternations of But there is another view, in which, English Families, come out of the month of relief. I and my family, like most other from the beginning, Malta has been conSeptember as though we were coming out templated by the Church Missionary of an oven: but the remaining eight or nine Society. In proportion as its Missions, months of the year are remarkably tempenow about to be attempted in the north-rate; and I have seldom seen the thermomeeastern and eastern parts of Africa, shall ter, in winter, below 50. prosper, a Seminary for its promising Youths will be required, and no spot offers for that purpose such advantages as Malta.

The access to it from those quarters is very easy; and had equal facility of access existed from Western Africa to Malta, it would probably have determined the Committee, in some late deliberations on the best site for a Christian Institution for the training of Native Teachers for that coast.

The difficulty hitherto felt, of maintaining an adequate and uninterrupted supply of Instructors in the Christian Institution of that Colony, has led to its temporary suspension;|| and, in considering various plans for obviating the difficulty, Malta was viewed as a place likely to secure efficient train

during the summer months is, great dryness. It has been regarded, consequently, during that season, as peculiarly trying to pulmonary cases: it almost infallibly developes and increases consumption. We are wholly exempt from malaria and jungleAsia, and the West Indies, as also of some fever the humidity of some parts of Africa, parts of Greece and the Ionian Islands, is utterly unknown on this white rock. The neighbourhood of the sea, as it does not bring coolness, so neither does it bring damp

The characteristic however of this climate,

ness in the summer months. Medical men

and experience will, consequently, best decide whether or no an African constitution would suffer in the height of summer in Malta. All the rest of the year may be regarded as good for persons of every latitude.

The value of Malta, as a centre of union and point of support to more distant enterprises, has been felt on oc