He took me to his room and prayed with me, then he called my father, and we all knelt down and he prayed again. He told me to go up to my room and think over the matter. At first I did not know what to do; then I fell down on my knees and prayed; I went to bed and prayed nearly the whole night. The next day I went to see Mr. Snelson, and he spoke to me on the same subject; I told him I felt greatly relieved from the burden of sin, and he prayed with me again that evening. Soon after I connected myself with the church. After Mr. Snelson’s return to America, Rev. Albert Miller, a Freedman from the Fisk University, was my pastor. Before leaving Africa I acted as interpreter for Mr. Miller, translating his sermons, as he delivered them, into the Mendi language. My father, who has been a native preacher for more than twenty years, is anxious to have missions planted far into the interior, where there are supposed to be two million Mendi people, occupying a country about 7 degrees north latitude. All he could do is to give me up to the work. Among this vast number, there is but one mission at present, and that is conducted by Freedmen from America. After spending three years in this country, at the Fisk University, it is my purpose to return to Africa, and assist in establishing missions in large villages in the wooded country, far from the coast. I feel that I need your prayers. I have been treated very kindly since I left Africa, and I pray earnestly that I may not disappoint my friends who have assisted me in coming to this country, and who are anxious that I should prepare myself to be a successful missionary in my native land. RECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1880. * * * * * MAINE, $432.47. Augusta. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ($30 of which from BARRETT EDWARDS POTTER to const. himself L. M.) $53.56 Bluehill. M. E. Johnson 5.00 Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Hampden. C. E. H. 1.00 Kennebunk. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 Lewiston. Pine St. Cong. Ch. 17.77 Machais. E. G. L. and Mrs. H., 50c. each 1.00 Orono. Cong. Ch. 1.04 Portland. Ladies in Maine, _for Lady Missionary_, by Mrs. W. E. Gould 300.00 Portland. Nathalie Lord, package, _for Rev. A. E. White, Mendi M._ Saco. D. J. 1.00 Saint Albans. Rev. W. S. Sewell, $2; Cong. Ch., $1 3.00 Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 Weld. Rev. D. D. T. 1.00 Wells. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.10