Α HISTORICAL SKETCH OR COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONS IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE By ASHBEL GREEN, D.D. PHILADELPHIA: WILLIAM S. MARTIEN, SOUTH EAST CORNER OF SEVENH AND GEORGE STREETS. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by Wм. S. MARTIEN, in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK ADVERTISEMENT. THE Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church, at their meeting in Baltimore, in October and November 1837, passed the following resolution: viz. "Resolved, That the Rev. Dr. Green be requested to draw up a history of the Foreign Missionary operations of the Presbyterian church in the United States, to be published by the Executive Committee, with the proceedings of this Board." When the duty assigned by the foregoing resolution came to be performed, it was found on examination, that Domestic and Foreign Missions in the Presbyterian church, had not only been conducted by the same agencies, but that, to some extent, they had been mingled together. A compendious view of both, was therefore determined on, as stated in the introduction to the Sketch. Institutions established or conducted mainly by associations or individuals, not immediately connected with the Presbyterian church, when mentioned at all, have received but a cursory and summary notice. Their operations have not been traced, although carried on in concert with members of the Presbyterian denomination. Institutions characteristically Presbyterian have been regarded as the only proper subjects of any thing like historical detail. Nor has it been considered as consistent with the plan adopted, to mention such of these as were |