In the review, this seems yet the exigent work of the time. It is not the caring for one, two or three new Territories or States at a time, but for five millions of people scattered over fifteen States, who are needing, all at once, the helping hand. This going back and forth makes one realize that this is all one country, with one language, with one history, with one Christian religion, with one interblended destiny; that the comfort of the whole body must depend upon the welfare of every member; and that so our common patriotism requires the uplifting of these lowly poor. This glance back over the field brings immense encouragement as to the results of this evangelizing process; brings assurance that, if it is only prosecuted with vigor, there need be no fear as to the outcome of the great act of emancipation; and brings evidence of cheerfulness and happiness among the hundreds of workers, Northern and native, male and female. As my eye takes its usual course and sweeps around the coast from the point where the old Mason & Dixon’s line struck the Atlantic to the boundary of Mexico, all the way it brings up colleges and professional departments, and normal institutes and high schools, which, under the management of this Association, are sources of light, fountains of blessing. It brings up the hundreds upon hundreds of primary schools, in which, during the last year, the native teachers of our own training were instructing their one hundred and fifty thousand pupils. It brings up the seventy churches of the primitive faith, which are the outgrowth of that educational scheme, and which as to their influence for good, by their character are multiplying their number many times. It brings up the multitudes of youth in those higher schools, who are ambitiously taking on a Christian cultivation that they may use it for the good of their people. It brings up those Christian congregations so hungry for the word of God, so anxious for the best things in church-life. It brings up, too, those masses, beset with ignorance and superstition and unthrift, who need to be rallied by some worthy aspiration. And then it turns with all hope to that corps of men and women, who, under God, have wrought such great things already, whose excelling in the passive virtues has commanded respect, and made it so comfortable for those of us who come to join them now, and whose service for the Republic and the Kingdom makes them high benefactors in our time and land. Clifton Springs, N. Y. * * * * * DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Lincoln Mission. REV. S. P. SMITH, WASHINGTON.