Two missionary bishops, appointed by the General Convention, are connected with this department.

1. INDIAN MISSIONS.-Duck Creek, 1 missionary, 2 female assistants; Green Bay, 2 female and 1 male assistant.

2. NORTHERN MISSIONS.-Maine, 3 stations, 2 missionaries; New Hampshire, 1 station, 1 missionary; Delaware, 1 station, 1 missionary; Ohio, 5 stations, 4 missionaries; Michigan, 13 stations, 11 missionaries; Indiana, 17 stations, 8 missionaries; Wisconsin, 12 stations, 8 missionaries; Iowa, 7 stations, 3 missionaries; Missouri, 12 stations, 5 missionaries; Illinois, 15 stations, 9 missionaries.

SOUTHERN MISSIONS.-Kentucky, 5 stations, 5 missionaries; Tennessee, 7 stations, 4 missionaries; Georgia, 2 stations, no missionary; Florida, 5 stations, 2 missionaries; Alabama, 12 stations, 4 missionaries; Mississippi, 9 stations, 4 missionaries; Arkansas, 7 stations, 3 missionaries; Louisiana, 4 stations, I missionary.

STATIONS IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT, reported June, 1840:

1. WESTERN AFRICA.-4 missionaries (3 married), 2 male and 1 female assistants.

2. CHINA.-1 missionary (married).

3. EASTERN MISSIONS.-Athens, 1 missionary (married), and 3 female assistants; Crete, 1 missionary (married), and 1 female assistant; Constantinople and Mardin, 2 missionaries (married).

4. TEXAS.-2 missionaries (1 married).

Receipts in the domestic department for 1842-3, $38,835 60. Expenditures, $36,238 64.

Receipts in the foreign department, 1842-3, $35,198 50. Expenditures, $37,330 05.

Official organ-"The Spirit of Missions."

III. THE GENERAL PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.Instituted 1817. Depository, New York. The Union publishes books for Sunday School instruction, and Sunday School Libraries; and also the Children's Magazine, and the Journal of Christian Education.

IV. THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL TRACT SOCIETY.-Instituted A. D. 1810.

V. THE DIOCESAN INSTITUTIONS are the following:

New York.-Columbia College, Trinity School, St. Paul's College and Grammar School, College Point, Flushing, L. I., and St. Ann's Hall, Flushing, L. I. Also,

The Protestant Episcopal Society for the promotion of Religion and Learning, Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children of

Clergymen, New York Bible and Common, Prayer Book Society, Education and Missionary Society, City Mission Society, &c.

Western New York.-Geneva College; Hobart Hall Institute; Holland Patent, Oneida county; Episcopal Seminary for Young Ladies, Lockport, Niagara county.

Massachusetts.-Board of Missions.

Connecticut.-Washington College, Hartford; Connecticut Episcopal Academy, Cheshire; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Church Scholarship Society.

New Jersey. Offerings of the Church; St. Mary's Hall, Burlington; St. Matthew's Hall, Port Colden, Warren county.

Pennsylvania.-Society for the Advancement of Christianity; Bishop White Prayer Book Society.

Virginia. Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary; Episcopal High School; Protestant Episcopal Association for the Promotion of Christianity.

Ohio.-Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary; Kenyon College; Senior Preparatory School; Milnor Hall, or Junior Preparatory School.

Tennessee.-Columbia Female Institute.

Illinois.-Jubilee College.
Missouri.-Kemper College.

The following table shows the progress of the church: exhibiting the population and the number of the clergy in each Diocese, at six successive periods, from A. D. 1792, to A. D. 1843, inclusive.

CONCLUDING REMARKS.

This much then of the facts and incidents connected with the rise and progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in these United States. At first a feeble band, she is called to the endurance of a great fight of affliction; and, at one period, reduced to an extremity which perilled her very existence. The jealousies which were awakened in the colonies by her union with the state in 1693, more than counterbalanced the short-lived advantages she derived from the protection and support of the British crown. This is evident from a view of her position, immediately following the recognition of the independence of the States in 1783. That event, dissolving her connexion with the state, subjected her on the one hand to the loss of many of her ablest clergy, and on the other, to the scorn and derision of opposing sects. Not that she could not at this very time, strictly speaking, compare with any other religious body in point of numbers, the members of the Methodist Society, up to the year 1784, constituting a part of her communion.

Five events mainly distinguish the history, and may be considered as affecting the interests of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country, from her earliest connexion with the colonies, to the present time.

The first, was her erection into a church establishment in 1693. This circumstance secured to her a temporary ascendency, especially in the province of New York. From that period, accessions were made to her communion, and not a few from among the original emigrants, the Hollanders; some, doubtless, for conscience' sake, but more, we fear, from mercenary motives, or from considerations of state policy.

The second, was the severance of the Methodist Society from her communion; a circumstance, which, if we mistake not, viewed in any light, furnishes an occasion of the deepest regret.

The third was the dissolution of the church establishments, consequent upon the recognition of the independence of the colonies by Great Britain in 1783; the effects of which, as it relates to the best interests of the church, can be measured only by being thrown in contrast with the folly of erecting into a church establishment any one religious body, amid so many discordant and hostile elements, social, civil, political, and ecclesiastical.

The fourth, the procurement, in 1793, of the episcopate through

the English line of succession. This event precluded the necessity of that temporary departure from Episcopacy, proposed by Dr. White, in order to meet the supposed exigency of the church in 1782.

Henceforward, the Protestant Episcopal Church, thus duly organized, with her apostolic ministry, her liturgy, her diocesan and general conventions, her constitutions and canons, &c. &c., gradually advanced into a consolidation of her distinctive principles; tillto the praise of God's grace be it spoken-she has realized the truth, (in a subordinate sense at least,) "a little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation." (Isa. lx. 22.)