A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in which it is located. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. * * * * * VOL. XXXII. JUNE, 1878. No. 6. * * * * * _American Missionary Association._ * * * * * As will be seen elsewhere, our new missionaries arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 23d, just one month from the date of their leaving New York by steamer for England. They had only the ordinary discomforts of a sea voyage, and reached their destination in good condition. Their first impressions of the new field seem to be quite favorable, and their desire to be to enter on the new work at once. We look to the Lord of the harvest for His blessing on the lives and labors of all those who have gone from us to the Mendi Mission. * * * * * We read with unfeigned regret of the disasters and delays which the English and Scotch missionaries have met with, in attempting to begin their new work in Central Africa. The expedition of the London Missionary Society was, from July to January last, trying to push its way with its supplies to its destination on Lake Tanganyika, but was obliged to encamp for the rainy season at Kirasa, only about one-third of the way. It is hoped that during the present year they may reach the lake, and establish themselves there. The mission of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches is in danger of being driven from its station at Livingstonia, on Lake Nyanza, by so insignificant an enemy as a fly. The bite of the tsetse, deadly to all domestic animals, has sadly impoverished them, impeded their industrial operations, and curtailed their usefulness in advancing the civilization of Africa. The station may have to be moved. A new site must be sought with great care, which will not be liable to this pest.