f January would be too soon to raise! work.

Receipts

N BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNION, FRO JUNE, 1867, TO THE 1ST OF JULY, 1867.

-esbytery. Sewickly Pres. Ch.21 09

W. II. Woods $5. Others $16----21 00 Cincinnati.

A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE

AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN

HERE are ninety millions of Protestants in the w e many millions of people a great deal has been do half century, to make known the Gospel, by the Sacred Scriptures and other religious publications, voice of the living teacher.

Within the same period much has been attempted, a ess, to introduce the Gospel into Mohammedan and F s. For the prosecution of this great work many mis and boards have been organized. But between t Id and the world lying outside of Christendom, there millions of Roman Catholics, and seventy millions he Oriental Churches. These two hundred and se eople, so far as relates to their corrupt doctrines and etices, stand, in the eyes of all true Protestants, muc 1; for all have adopted, substantially, the same gerous errors, and by consequence, have departed, al degree, from the true Gospel.

o spread the blessed Gospel in this great middle field sionary society in existence in this land that had th ial object, until the AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRI formed. Romanists in Protestant countries have y reached by the Protestant Missions in those co menians, Greeks, Nestorians and other adherents of rches have been reached by missions in Mohammed s is admitted. It is admitted, too, that the Bib ieties have done much among the two hundred and sev souls of which we are speaking. But what we affir ety having for its principal, much less its special a

it from the hands of Napoleon I. in 1801. She lost it t degree during the Restoration (1814-30), but regai uis Philippe came to the throne. It was then that the vangelical Protestants in Paris began their efforts, to aid ttee or small association was formed in New-York, some e "French Board," and sometimes the "Evangelical which existed five years. This "Association" gave pl ign Evangelical Society, which existed ten years. And eeded by the American and Foreign Christian Union ere merged the "American Protestant Society," and Italian Society" or "Christian Alliance." These organiza ntially the same, though under different names.

this humble beginning the movement has steadily adva g as means and opportunities were offered, until it has rea nt dimensions.

ociety has ever felt a deep interest in France, from the hat the spread of the Gospel in that great and powerful c exert a happy influence upon the nations of Europe, and e civilized world. For many years we aided as far as we c of Christ in that country, through the Evangelical Societ e Central Evangelical Society, the Church of Lyons, and cal Society of Geneva. Our work in Italy and South Ame n so largely on our hands during the last two or three ye mave not been able to make the grants we formerly did to th titutions.

es the Society aided the work independently of all these aving at one period, and for years, a Swiss American Com neva for that purpose.

me year in which we began to help the good work in Fra Feller and Mr. Russey came over from Switzerland to be

reach the rapai world were directed to the more unan

the French-speaking portion of the Latin race; for could do but little among the Italian portion, and t ne through the Waldensian Synod, or through the pre anish portion of the same race, the Society employed nsalvatge, a converted Spaniard, first at Oran, (in Af xas, then in New Grenada, and now in Carthagena, So Is to his pen that the Spanish race is indebted for th o their language of the first two volumes of the H formation, and several valuable books and tracts. The Society also helped to sustain for several years umbull, at Valparaiso, in Chili. It is mainly throug t Chili now enjoys toleration. Within the last fiv e missionaries have been sent out by the Society: vert, to Santiago; Rev. Mr. McKim, to Lima, Peru; srs. Merwin and Sayre, to Chili. Messrs. Gilbert and - able to make known the truths of the Gospel to t li and Peru in their own language. The younger bret work acquiring the Spanish. In the meantime, the mbull.

or the Portuguese, the Society did what it could b usand converts from Romanism, who were exiled from h their present homes in Illinois, and by sustaining t cher, and afterwards the Rev. Mr. Collins, at Rio de J . Mr. Compton and wife were also sent to the same capital of Brazil.

rom an early day this Society began to take an interes grants to one of the missionary societies in that is loying for several years the Rev. Alexander King to b meetings in all parts of it, and by aiding the missions Heather, and the body to which he belongs, the Soci t it could in a part of the Papal world that sustains m cions to our country.