of the Chinaman away off in China—to have an overflow of sympathy for the poor African away in the dark continent; but it is a very different thing to have sympathy for them in this country. The spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ must actuate us and lead us to this. These, then, are _the five great principles_ that underlie American civilization—principles that are being tested by these three races or nationalities. Our professions are large. Let us live up to them in these five great principles. It is Lord Bacon who says that “When hempe is spun, England is done”—meaning that when Henry, Elizabeth, Mary, Philip and Edward had passed away, England would be done. We may say that _if these five principles_—the right of asylum, the right of labor, of political freedom, of education, and free play to Protestant Christianity be done—America is done. God save the State! And what is the agency—or one agency—by which that may be accomplished? The American Missionary Association, because it gives us Christian education. Because it brings together the college, the church and the home. And will not your devotion to a pure Christianity, free from the spirit of caste, and filled with the spirit of genuine love, manifest itself by your support of such an Association? May we not gauge your feelings in regard to these five principles by the support you give to such a society? May we not implore you that as you value the rights of property and free government you array yourself solidly against Communism and its ally—Romanism; because these are craftily working together. Would you behold free Protestant Christianity established in this country? Then give your support to this Association, that these three races may prove us to be a people who love liberty in its deepest significance as liberty in Christ. * * * * * RETURN OF REV. FLOYD SNELSON.