In your thirtieth Annual Report, page 15, you indicate a desire, on the part of your Society, to enter on some suitable field for missionary enterprise in Eastern or Central Africa; and again, in the thirty-first Report, I find in the first pages of the volume a similar desire expressed for extension, so as to bring the African Continent within the range of the mighty power of the Gospel—Christ risen again, in all his reality set forth as the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. If your Society can so enter into the scheme I am about to propose as to assure me that the debt of your treasury—see the 31st Report—is extinguished, and that your members adopt the proposal of it prayerfully in all faith, I am impressed that I should be glad in the Lord to offer to your Society towards the carrying it into execution the sum of _three thousand pounds_. The unevangelized region of Africa to which I would call your earnest attention, and invite you to accept as a field for missionary labors (to be conducted with all energy in the Spirit—very judiciously fixing your positions for holding forth the word of Life so as to command the whole area, and diffuse throughout it the light of the Gospel—you and a great multitude of true believers continually standing on the watch-tower of the church and fervently praying, “Thy kingdom come!”) is situated and extends from the 10th parallel of north latitude to the point southwards where the 40th meridian crosses or cuts the river Jub (or Godschob), west to east from the right (east) bank of the White Nile to the said 40th meridian, and from the parallel of longitude of that point on the Jub southwards west and east from the White Nile to the right (west) bank of the Jub, down to the 3rd parallel of north latitude, and from the 3rd parallel of north latitude down to the 1st parallel of north latitude, west and east from the 35th meridian to the Jub. We thus avoid Somali Land, which is not at present eligible as a mission field. The territory south of the parallel 1 degree north latitude, it is hoped, some other society will evangelize. West of the 35th meridian, from 3 degrees north latitude and southwards, appears suitable for the Church Missionary Society of England, in connection with the Victoria Nyanza district. The general object of this method of arrangement is to assign the whole of Africa, so far as not Mohammedanized, to different sections of the Christian church, that they may see that their several areas are evangelized. You would thus have a great and highly promising field for missionary labor, the most important and interesting people of which are: 1. The decayed Christian Remnants (remnants of the ancient Abyssinian church), Wolawo and Cambay, Muger and Gurague, and the places Euarea, Kaffa, Susa, Tuffti, Kullu and Doko. 2. The great and wide-spread Gallas tribes. 3. Dinkas. 4. The inhabitants of the Berri country. 5. The Latookas. 6. Fatiko and the Madi country.