The intervention of organic efficiency greatly multiplies the duty and the privilege of the individual. The American Missionary Association, as has been potently said, is set for the care of the three despised races in our country. Though the Indian and the Negro and the Chinaman are the objects of prejudice and violence and injustice and hatred on the part of our people, nevertheless Christ speaks of them as among “these my brethren;” and the prayers and the sympathy, and the service and the giving of substance in their behalf He counts as rendered to Him. This organization cannot discharge any one’s personal duty, but its instrumentality is offered to all who would use it in the discharge of individual obligation to Christ and to His brethren. Its opportunities belong to all who would use them, and by these a single Christian may reach not only “unto one of the least of these,” but unto many. At the Great Day, when the Master shall surprise you, humble Christian, with a benediction for service rendered to His brethren among these despised ones, and you deprecatingly answer, _when_ and _where_, His revealing response may be—_when_ you reached them with your prayers and your substance through that Association which offered you its means of operation. And surely all its workers among these outcast peoples, in the ostracism and opposition and hatred which confront them, may even in this life have their abundant recompense in this, that they are serving those whom the Master owns as “these my brethren.” * * * * * FIVE TESTS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. Notes of an Address at the Annual Meeting. BY PROF. C. D. HARTRANFT, D. D. HARTFORD, CONN.