and buildings; but exclusive of books and the sala ries of the missionaries that superintend them.*

A Karen preacher, or school teacher, is supported, when employed in the native villages, at from twenty five to fifty dollars annually: much less than in most other missions.† Now all we ask is, half a dozen more well educated missionaries, and funds enough to do all the good they can, on the economical scale given above. Is this an extravagant request? While there are twenty four ordained missionaries sent to the one hundred thousand Sandwich Islanders, is it beyond the bounds of propriety or practicability, to sustain an establishment of half that number, for the many hundred thousand Karens? Such an establishment as is desirable, might perhaps involve an annual expense of twenty thousand dollars, exclusive of the operations of the press; and such an establishment, with God's blessing, would change the whole nation, and make them as truly a Christian people as are the English or the Americans.

*The whole expense, including every thing, may amount to from twenty-five to thirty dollars.

If other missions are more expensive, or less successful, it is not the fault of the missionaries; and if the Karen mission is cheaper, or more successful, than others, no credit is to be here attributed to the Karen missionaries, above their brethren. It is to be wholly attributed to peculiarly favorable providential circumstances; and these things are not mentioned for the sake of drawing invidious comparisons, but because they are some of "the indications of providence" referred to above, and because they are facts that ought to be known.

And surely the six hundred thousand Baptist communicants of the United States, embracing a Baptist population of three or four millions, will not withhold a sum so paltry, to accomplish an object so glorious.

"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,

Not light them for themselves. If our possessions
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike,

As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd,
But to fine issues; nor Nature ever lends
The smallest scruple of her abundance,
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor,—

Both thanks and use."

But the Karens, apart from all other considerations, have peculiar claims on Christians on account of their remarkable susceptibility to religious impressions, and the spirit of piety evinced by the converts. Here we will not argue, but produce testimony; such testimony, as would be more than sufficient to establish any point in law.

The first witness we shall bring into court, is Mr. Boardman on his dying couch. Hear his testimony in the midst of the Karen converts coming forward for baptism. "If I live to see this one ingathering, I may well exclaim with happy Simeon, 'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.' How many ministers have wished they

might die in their pulpits; and would not dying in a spot like this, be even more blessed than dying in a pulpit at home? I feel that it would."

The next that comes in, is Mrs. Boardman, in her widowhood, testifying to the conduct of the converts after baptism. "They are Karens, living two or three days' journey distant, who, by their frequent visits to us, over almost impassable mountains and through deserts, the haunt of the tiger, evince a love for the gospel seldom surpassed. What would the Christians in New England think of travelling forty or fifty miles on foot to hear a sermon and beg a Christian book? A good Christian woman, who has been living with us several months, told me that when she came, the water was so deep that she was obliged to wait till the men in the company could cut down trees and lay across the streams for her to get over on; and sometimes she forded the streams herself, when the water reached her chin. She said she was more afraid of the alligators, than any thing else. The reason of their coming at so bad a time was, we had appointed a church fast, and sent to the Karen Christians living near, to unite with us; but a rumor of it spread beyond the mountains, and they were so afraid that they should not observe it at the right time and in the right way, that a large company of the best disciples came immediately to inquire about it. As far as we can learn, they manifest the same tenderness of con

Among my luxuries at Tavoy, were several visits to the grave-yard where, among others, is the tomb of Boardman. I made the sketch above, in the assurance that the friends of missions would love to see the resting-place of that great, good man."-Malcom's Travels.