work proceed more extensively, and the means will be proportionably increased. Just as men are unsolicitous for their own best interests, will they be unconcerned about the eternal welfare of others; but in every accession to the Christian Church, there is that of one, who will gladly offer his efforts, his contributions, and his prayers, that the Saviour he loves may be universally adored. Well, then, may we present the petitions which were poured forth by ancient believers" God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us, that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all people! Let God bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him!" the L. M. S. or L. S., London Missionary Society. C. M. S., Church ditto. W. M. S. or W. S., Wesleyan ditto. B. M. S., Baptist ditto. S. M. S., Scottish ditto. ditto. N. M. S., Netherlands U. F. M. S., United Foreign ditto (United States). A. B. C. F. M., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. A. B. B. F. M., American Baptist Board for Foreign Missions. C. M. A., Calcutta Missionary Auxiliary. M. A., Missionary Association. M. S., Missionary Society. A. M. S., Auxiliary Missionary Society. U. B., United Brethren. C. K. S., Christian Knowledge Society. S.P. G. F. P., Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. B. & F. B. S., British and Foreign Bible Society. B. S., Bible Society. B. A., Bible Association. A. B. S., Auxiliary Bible Society. L.J. S., London Jews' Society. E. J. S., Edinburgh T. S., Tract Society. ditto. B. F. S. S., British and Foreign School Society. A. S., Auxiliary Society. MISSIONARY GAZETTEER. ABU ABUROW, OR ABORU, a village in the island of Harooka, which the Rev. Mr. Kam, of the L. M. S. occasionally visits. Here a native schoolmaster, Nicholas Kiriwinno, collected together the inhabitants, and, on the 18th of January, 1822, persuaded them to abandon idolatry, and to demolish their idols. He was equally successful at five different villages in the same island. The very ashes of objects esteemed sacred were cast into the sea. ABYSSINIA, an empire of Africa, 770 m. long, and 550 broad; bounded on the N. by Nubia, E. by the Red Sea, S. by Gingi and Alaba, and W. by Nigritia and Darfur. It is divided into two grand districts, Tigre and Amhara, which are subdivided into several provinces. The country is mountainous, but in the vales the soil is fertile. The rainy season continues from April to September. This is succeeded, without interval, by a cloudless sky, and a vertical sun; but cold nights constantly follow these scorching days. The earth, notwithstanding these days, is cold to the soles of the feet; partly owing to the six months' rain, when no sun appears, and partly to the perpetual equality of nights and days. No country in the world produces a greater variety of ABY quadrupeds, both wild and tame, Birds are also numerous, and some are of an immense size and beauty, There is a remarkable coincidence between the customs in the court of ancient Persia and those of Abyssinia. The religion of the country is a mixture of Judaism and the Christianity of the Greek church; and the language bears a great affinity to the Arabic. The government is legally a despotism, but in an unsettled state; for the power of the neguz, or emperor, is very weak, and the ras, or prince of the empire, and the chiefs of the provinces, are generally in enmity with one another. The people are of a dark olive complexion; their dress is a light robe, bound with a sash, and the head is covered with a turban. The houses are of a conic form, meanly built of clay, and covered with thatch; and even the churches are of a round form, encircled by a portico. The chief rivers are the Nile and the Tacazze, which have their sources in this country. Gondar is the metropolis. To Abyssinia, the attention of the C. M. S. was called some years ago, by the circumstances which occurred during Mr. Jowett's visits to Egypt. The B. & F. B. S. has since availed itself of all the means at its disposal, to prepare the Scriptures for Abyssinia, both in the |pared with that at Cairo, the latter, where facilities for the introduction of the Scriptures and religious publications are great, is suggested as the proper residence of the missionaries. Of the Copts and Mussulmans, Mr. Gobat thus speaks: The Copts are reserved. Brother Krusé has been well received by the Patriarch, I hope something will be done for them; though nothing encourages the hope of success, but the promised grace of God and the misery of the people. It will be very difficult to do any thing for the Mussulmans, until the mighty arm of the Lord interfere in a particular manner. The fol Ethiopic, as the ecclesiastical language of the country, and in the Amharic, as the chief vernacular dialect. By the active aid of its learned coadjutors, the four Gospels in Amharic, from the translation of Abu Rumi, procured for the Society by Mr. Jowett, in Egypt, were speedily printed and forwarded to Abyssinia. The Ethiopic Scriptures were also soon under preparation, in aid of which the Committee of the C. M. S. presented to the B. & F. B. S. some Ethiopic manuscripts, purchased by Mr. Jowett at Jerusalem, among which was a valuable copy of the entire New Testament. Under these hopeful cir-lowing fact will give an idea of the cumstances a mission was contemplated. On the arrival from Bâsle of five Lutheran clergymen in 1825, (the Rev. Messrs. Gobat, Kugler, Krusé, Lieder, and Müller), three of them were destined to this service, and the other two to occupy such stations in the Mediterranean, as might appear most eligible, in reference to a connexion with Abyssinia. Mr. Koelner, a German printer, who accompanied them to this country, was also selected as an assistant in their important work. Mr. Lieder writes, in 1826, "In February, or the beginning of March, I intend to proceed to Upper Egypt, taking with me an Arabic servant, a treasure of 40 or 50 Bibles, 100 New Testaments, and a considerable number of Tracts and Arabic Spelling Books. I think, at first, to live two or three months at Kene, as well for doing good to many as for improving my knowledge in Ara, bic." The ancient church of the Copts, who form the largest Christian community, and are the old inhabitants of the country, will chiefly engage the attention of those who are occupied in the Egyptian mission; and as their number in Alexandria is very small com sentiments of the most tolerant nation of the Turkish empire :-A Turkish woman, being divorced from her husband, lived with a Greek for two years-whether married or unmarried is not known, nor is it known whether she had been baptized; but she had made the mark of the cross on her arm: her husband (the Greek) had a Turkish servant, who, being dissatisfied with his master, went, four weeks ago, to the father of the woman, who is a man of some con sequence; the father went immediately with some soldiers to take her into custody; after which she was examined. As shé confessed herself to be a Christian, she was condemned to be drowned in the Nile: they put her upon an ass, and conducted her to the Boulac, amidst the maledictions of a mul titude they then took her into a small boat on the stream, and strip-" ping off her clothes and ornaments, (the more briskly, as she continued to say, 'I shall die a Christian,') they bound her arms together on her back, and cast her into the Nile, where she expired. Others had, in the mean time, made a great fire for the husband, who had been condemned to be 2 with s echist isals of p ed to As which |