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It now has seven colleges, with several theological departments, seventeen normal schools, and forty­seven schools of lower grade. The teachers are provided; the facilities are furnished; the pupils are at hand; fifteen thousand are already gathered in for instruction. But there are millions who need Christian training to fit them for usefulness among their own people. We could reach them, in due time, if we had the means. Indeed," we have our hand on the lever of a tremendous opportunity for good!" But we must have help to move it effi­ciently. Friends, come to our aid! Come now!

Soon we shall need a thousand missionaries for Africa. The country is being explored; providen­tially it is opening up for commercial and missionary occupation with great promise. The proposed ship canal, for the letting in the waters of the Atlantic to the great Sahara Desert, will furnish an inland sea for about seven hundred miles into the heart and best parts of Africa, and, by a junction with the north bend of the Niger, give access to more than twenty millions of the best class of the native population. We ought to be prepared for this event and call. Educated Christian Africans must go to teach Afri­cans. The Freedmen of America are fitted by con­stitution and race for this work. The venerable Dr. Moffat, so long a missionary in Africa, once said: " It is utterly hopeless to think of evangelising Africa by European agency. It must be done by a native agency." To secure this, England and America must combine their forces more and more. And well did the noble president of our Society say," It is doing a great work towards a grand consummation, which all English- speaking nations ought to desire above all things, a complete harmony, not only of politics: