There is this one way out of our danger, and there is none other. We have been bold enough to attempt the experiment, staking the life of our Republic upon the issue; let us be wise enough to supply, with all promptness and fidelity, the conditions which shall ensure its success. While the statesmanship which thrust the problem upon us has given itself no concern whatever as to the issue, Christian charity has shown that a blessed solution is possible. Our schools have proved that of the ignorant slave a wise and useful citizen can be made. The path of safety has been clearly pointed out; now let the means for achieving this safety be supplied. We believe the nation ought to do it. We know the patriot and Christian must do it, or this third will prove to be the final stage in this experiment, not only of equal negro citizenship in a free Republic, but of Republican government itself. AFRICAN NOTES. —Africa is the most profoundly interesting of missionary lands, because it is God’s greatest providential mystery. Great in antiquity, great in its ancient curse, great in its colossal wickedness, great in its hideous wrongs, great in its tremendous difficulties as a mission field, great in its costly missionary sacrifices, great in its future possibilities for Christ and the world. The eyes, the efforts, the progress of the Church of God, must ever be more and more directed to this grand Satansburg, as Dr. Schlier would call this great citadel of sin.—“_Bible in all Lands._” —Africa is the white man’s grave; to him the sentinel of death stands five miles out at sea; pass beyond that line and sleep on shore, and death is almost certain. “The story of all past mission work on that Dark Continent,” says Dr. Blyden, “is one of the saddest of our missionary stories, and three hundred years of European intercourse with West Africa has left the people worse than it found them.” With these facts before me, I do not hesitate to assert my honest conviction that Africa is to be redeemed by, and through the instrumentality of, her own sons. If we will now do our duty to bleeding Africa, and not debauch her people with intoxicants, then we, of the Anglo-Saxon race, may yet sit as a grand jury over that Continent, introducing all the arts of civilization, and all the pure influences of Christianity. I am encouraged in this belief from the fact that no tribe in the immediate rear of Liberia is considered perfect, unless it has a man who can speak English, and this may be the language of Africa in less time than many of us think.—_Edward S. Morris._ * * * * * ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.