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mous extent." It is in the nature of things and the facts of the system.
Nothing can be more true than the following: " It is for the people of England and the other great nations, under the blessing and power of an overruling Providence, to do much at the present time to decide this great question. When the people are really in earnest, Governments act: without a healthy public opinion behind them, statesmen neither act nor have the power to do so." The people, therefore, must be instructed for a right stand in the matter; and who can fail to be aroused and in earnest when the facts in the case are noted?
According to Dr. Livingstone, Sir Bartle Frere, and other distinguished authorities, not less than 1,000,000 of Ethiopia's wretched children are stolen every year out of their own country for the slavemarts of the world. That such a crime is permitted, in this nineteenth century, for a single year, is a burning shame to the civilised nations. Surely, England and America should sound forth their reprobation of it throughout the world as through a brazen trumpet! Doing less, we can hardly vindicate our common Christianity before the world, much less before high Heaven.
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The Freedmen's Missions Aid Society has great facilities for doing much for Africa through the American Missionary Association, to which it is auxiliary, which, in the opinion of the highest authority, is believed to be providentially called beyond all others to the great endeavour of training teachers and missionaries for Africa." This association was anti- slavery from the first, and it was first in the field for the teaching of the Freedmen. 1" The Lost Continent." J. Cooper.