The question comes, and often with a pressure from our friends, as to the multiplication of missionaries, and, of course, because of our limited means, corresponding diminution of educational work. Our work is limited by the money put into our hands, and, therefore, we are compelled to choose between them, when we cannot do both of two desirable things. It would be pleasant, and a source of great spiritual comfort and social advantage every way, if we could send an excellent Christian woman into every negro cabin of the South, who should bring her refined womanhood into loving and sympathetic contact with the ignorant and lonely aunties, who never see a cultured white woman socially. It were easily possible to organize an evangelistic movement which would set the religious nature of the negro ablaze, and gather the people by tens of thousands into the churches which could be erected with the money now employed to sustain our schools; but all this would leave the negro helpless, at the mercy of the bulldozer or debaucher, and still under the control of his licentious and dishonest habits. The work must be more thorough, and, therefore, more tedious than this. The negro _character_ needs to be created in germ, and then developed into a worthy manhood and womanhood by thorough Christian culture, and the best and only adequate missionaries are the Christian teachers in our schools. Conversion, as the negro in his ignorance understands it, is not the most important or desirable thing to be accomplished. We must first secure an enlightenment of the understanding, a toning up of the moral constitution, which shall give value to conversion when it does occur. Conversion is but the beginning of a new life—a beginning which is utterly worthless except in connection with an adequate conception of what that life is, and unless that life follows. No one who at all comprehends the nature of the work to be done, will advocate other policy than the one we now pursue of “hastening slowly.” We must enlarge, equip and multiply our educational facilities through the South. When this has been done, the number of missionaries may be multiplied manifold with advantage; but to displace or weaken educational agencies for those that aim at conversion and spiritual comfort, would prove utterly disastrous. * * * * * WRONGS OF THE PONCAS. The removal of the Poncas from their reservation, and the failure of Congress to pass the bill for their relief, illustrate the facility with which crimes, and blunders which have all the fateful results of crime, have been committed by us against the Indians; also, the criminal tardiness with which we correct such blunders.