that the amount found necessary to take care of theso 250 boys would found at least 750 Sunday-schools in new or neglected settlements of the State, each year, with an aggregate of 22,000 scholars, and teach them those great lessons which lie at the foundation of a virtuous life, and not only save this multitude of youth from vice and crime, but train them in tura to save others also, it is not difficult to see the course which true wisdom marks out for us. As examples of our work, and the way of doing it, I subjoin the reports of two of our excellent Sunday-school laborers, Messrs. Upson and Morehouse.

I have not the statistics of Mr. Morehouse's labors, but the aggregate of Deacon Upson's work for fifteen years was as follows: Number of counties canvassed, 17; miles traveled with horse, 50,181; schools organized and aided, 1,230; children in said schools, 45,238.

Very respectfully yours,
THOS. WRIGHT,

Supt. S.-S. Missions.

MR. UPSON'S JOURNEY TO THE NORTH WOODS.

On the 23d of May I formed & co-partnership, with the Rev. Mr. S, of Greenville, to go through the woods to Big Rapids, in Mecosta county. I was to put into the stock some three hundred Sunday-School books and a quantity of papers, a bag of oats, and a water pail; and he was to take a bundle of sermons, a bag of hay, a two-barrelled rifle, a box of matches and a pail of provisions. By the arrangements we were to hitch our horses to what was supposed to be a strong wagon, belonging to one of the deacons of his church (a man who has given twenty-five dollars the present year to my work.) Thus equipped, we took into the woods for the north. The preacher was not an entire stranger to the first part of the road, as ha had more than once been called to go up seventeen miles to preach funeral sermons. He had sent a previous appointment for the Sunday-school missionary to speak at the first settlement, at one o'clock P. M.; but the rain detained us: so we

were some two hours behind. Yet, on arriving and caring for our horses, we started for the school-house, hoping to have a little meeting for the children; but, before reaching there, we saw the women and some of the men making their way to the school-house, as they all seemed determined to enjoy one more meeting. Let people who have formerly been church goers be in the woods, and deprived for some six or eight years of that privilege, and they will leave almost any thing to enjoy one more opportunity to worship God in the congregation. And those children's eyes glistened, too, as we talked to them about having a Sunday-school and new books to read. We found eighteen children there. And this little cluster of buildings, consisting of a saw-mill, a tavern, school house, and a few log. cabins, is the only settlement in that vicinity. The landlord's wife, an intelligent lady, appeared anxious for a Sunday-school. We organized one; and the tavern-keeper, who when he lived out in the open world had charge of a Sunday-school, was appointed superintendent. They collected five dollars, and we made a donation, and left them supplied with fifty reading books, &c., &c., an l went our way, praying that God would bless that Sunday-school. Leaving this place, some two hour's drive brought us seven miles through the woods (without a house) to a settlement, where we left an appointment for the next week, when we hoped to return. At the next settlement we providentially met with the only male professor of religion in that vicinity. The teacher of the day-school very readily gave us an hour for a meeting; and it resulted in the organization of a Sunday-school. I left them a new library and outfit, and gave out a lesson for the children to learn. The next Sabbath they had a housefull, and a very great interest was manifested. Since that time I have met with the Superintendent, and he said they kept up a good interest there yet, and the children were all engaged in reading those new books. Two hours' drive brought us to a settlement over the line, in Mecosta County. As we found in front of the little log schoolhouse a lot of children playing, I supposed it was the noon

recess; but, going in, I found more children there than outside. "Where did all these children come from?" I asked; "did they grow among the trees?" "Oh, no!" said one little boy; some of us grew in the State of Pennsylvania." There we were glad to find a Sunday-school already organized. One of the superintendents, who was at work near by, and some of the teachers, joined us at the school-house, and seemed very glad to have us hold a meeting with those forty children. One question with me was how a teacher could get along with all those children in that small cabin; and the only explanation seemed to be that she adopted the plan of taking it by turns among them, teaching all she could get in at a time, the rest hanging on the outside, like an overloaded bee-hive. We had a good meeting, and, after furnishing the superintendent with books, went on our way. The remainder of the day we found no settlement where we could organize a Sunday-school, until we stopped for the night. There we found ourselves Lear to a school-house, and soon learned thai a man was expected to preach there the next Sabbath; and we urged them to effect a Sunday school organization, and promised to supply them with an cutfit of books on our return. They consented to do so, and in the morning we pursued our journey. I will not stop to speak of our serious troubles by the way, in the breaking of an axletree soon after we entered the woods, extending fourteen miles without an inhabitant. Yet I could but think of Jonah bound for Tarshish, and considered that God would reveal to me by some results whether I was in the path of duty or not. One thing I was quite sure of: that a Sunday-school missionary had never been this way before. The old preacher, I thought, seemed to take it more to heart than I did, as he said that he hoped this sin of ignorance (traveling in such a bad road) would be forgiven, as he was sure he should never try it again. I will not undertake to describe to you the road, as Mr. Webster, who made the dictionary, having never traveled such a road, has left us no words appropriate to give a description. As we came in sight of Big Rapids, we "thanked

God and took courage." We found the village, which lay on the west side of the Muskegon River, in Mecosta County, larger than we expected, having thirty-five dwellings of a respectable appearance, in which were some five stores, and another in process of building, eighty feet in length. But there was no Sabbath-school. I found that their old preacher had returned the night before, after an absence of several weeks.

With him Mr. Upson made arrangements for a thorough canvass of the village and vicinity. And on the following Lord's day the Sunday-school was organized, under promising auspices. He concludes by saying: "We left them the next day, feeling very much encouraged, both minister and people. We were prospered on our homeward journey, and found we had helped organize, in the eight days' absence, five Sundayschools, and visited one other."

GRAND TRAVERSE.

Mr. Morehouse reports,

On the 1st of July last, with proper credentials and a good supply of "Union" publications, I set out from Detroit for the Grand Traverse region, a newly settled tract of country around Grand Traverse Bay,-an extensive field of labor, as I learned by experience, comprising all the inhabited portions of five counties,-bounded on the west and north by Lake Michigan, on the south and east by the primeval forest. Here I labored for about three months. I visited every village and every neighborhood in the whole region. Though entering on my work so late in the season, yet I succeeded in organizing ten schools. I visited and aided schools already in existence. I sold of the Society's publications one hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-six cents' worth, and made donations to the amount of fifty-nine dollars and eighteen cents; and I set in circulation three thousand three hundred and sixty-nine Sunday-school papers.

The most important town is Traverse city, situated at the

head of Grand Traverse Bay. It contains some four or five hundred inhabitants, and is the central business part of the whole region. Here are two small church organizations, Con gregational and Methodist. I called upon the Methodist minister, Mr. Sherman, and was cordially received by him, and he bade me God speed in my missionary work. Here, then, I established my headquarters, in a room kindly furnished me by Mr. C., the County Clerk. From this place as a center, my labors radiated in all directions, sometimes extending to a distance of fifty miles. I traveled mostly on foot,-occasionally by water. And though sometimes I became weary and footsore, and though I met many discouragements, yet when I had the opportunity of addressing a little band of eager hearers, collected in some rude log hut, and spoke to them of the precious truths of our religion, and when I saw the joy of bright-eyed childred, revelling in their newly acquired treasures of Sunday-school books and papers, my weariness was gone and discouragements all forgotten.

As I expected, I found the country new. The word new, in this connection, comprises several ideas,-woods, widely scattered settlements, "corduroy" roads, poor facilities for traveling, the people honest but not rich, living in log houses on frugal fare. I found the people intelligent, industrious and hospitable. Wherever I went they furnished me with the best they had, and in return, I trust, I was enabled to give them some of the best gifts. My labors appeared to be almost universally appreciated. When about to leave, on my return, I was urged by many warm hearts to remain and labor still among them. When I told them I could not possibly stay, they tried to get a promise from me that I would certainly visit them the next summer; and since then I have received letters from the superintendents of different schools, inquiring about the "Union" missionary. I do not say this for the purpose of commending myself, but to show the existing feeling towards the Sunday-School Union.