What a task then, to lift up those millions—more difficult, I sometimes think, than the conversion of the original heathen! And yet it must be done—done for the sake of the souls who else will perish in their sins; done for the sake of this country that we love; done, first and last and always, by thoroughly Christian instrumentalities; and yet done under motives that take hold on the concerns of our national welfare. Therefore, my friends, count all the past progress in this direction only the signal and the token of your future success and triumph. If to-day the doors are opened wide, let us, in the Master’s name, go up and possess this land for Him, and for the future of our united and Christian Republic. So much for this land. And what shall I say of Africa, that dark continent beyond the seas? I think of Africa, and the longing burns in my soul, that out of the uplifted negroes there may speedily be trained those who shall carry Divine light into the very depths of her darkness. Is not Africa actually reaching out her hands to this Association, and to us who have in our care so many of her children? You say, ‘the last to be enlightened.’ I grant it; but, I assure you, God has a great future for that continent. Who shall say that there, there will not yet be developed a civilization and a manifestation of Christianity, the most bountiful, the most beautiful, of them all? Ah, my friends, the cry comes to us not merely from Africa! This call for enlargement is wider still; it is from the four quarters of the globe. For the work is all one; and you will find, if you think of it, that the solidarity of the race, the oneness of the kingdom of Christ, is in the appeal that is made through this Association. The considerations of an illimitable future join with those of the present. The new heavens and the new earth await our preparation for their advent. Christ, in His kingly glory, is summoning us to the conflict and the conquest. Let us advance in His name. With unlimited devotion let us give, let us pray, let us work. For once hath God spoken, yea, twice have I heard it, to God belongs the power, even as to Him shall be the glory forever. * * * * * SACRIFICIAL LIVING AND GIVING. REV. AUGUSTUS F. BEARD, D.D., SYRACUSE, N. Y.