History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . t the objec-tionable regulations would not have been enforced upon him, had he chosento remain, and that the master would have been removed to another Korck thought it better, to retire from its superintendence. About theclose of the year, he was instructed by his society to proceed to Corfu, whenhe left the Girls school under the care of his associate, Mr. Hildner, till thepleasure of the Prudential Committee should be known. The Rev. Jonas King had been invited to return to the service of th
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . t the objec-tionable regulations would not have been enforced upon him, had he chosento remain, and that the master would have been removed to another Korck thought it better, to retire from its superintendence. About theclose of the year, he was instructed by his society to proceed to Corfu, whenhe left the Girls school under the care of his associate, Mr. Hildner, till thepleasure of the Prudential Committee should be known. The Rev. Jonas King had been invited to return to the service of theBoard, as their agent in Greece. His acceptance was received about thelast of September. He was then at Tenos, where he had been for about ayear, in the service of the Ladies Greek Committee at New York. He hadunder his care a school of 30 or 40 girls, and was actively engaged in dis-tributing Bibles, tracts and school books. He sold 500 copies of the Mod-ern Greek spelling book, printed by the Board at Malta, in two weeks. Thatlittle work was exceedingly popular and useful in View of Eraiaerd. Indian Missions. Among the American Aborigines, the religious awak-enings of last year had not wholly subsided. Of the Cherokees, small INDIAN MISSIONS. CONVERSIONS. 905 numbers were frequently received into the churches. Near the close of theyear, a season of unusual interest commenced at Carmel, and at December, there were in the nation, 219 members of Presbyterianchurches, of whom 167 were Cherokees ; 45 Cherokee members of Mora-vian churches ; about 90 members of Baptist churches ; and the membersof Methodist societies, including seekers, not supposed to be regeneratepersons, not less than 850. Of the Gospel of Matthew, in Cherokee,nearly the whole of an edition of 1000 copies had been disposed of, and800 copies of the Cherokee hymns had been circulated, and another editionof 1400 printed. Among the Chickasaws, the station at Monroe was given up, and its ope-ratio
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