The experience of the Mendi mission has been a sad history of the sacrifice of many lives, and of meagre results when measured by that sacrifice, in any narrow view of the past or present. But when we stretch our gaze into the future, and think of the “must needs be,” which is the law of suffering that accomplishes great results, and lays the foundations of many generations, the Mendi mission already justifies its past. It is the key of a future that seems full of promise. It opens the door to a wider and more salubrious region, reaching back from the malarious coast towards the highlands of the head waters of the Niger, and inviting the extension of mission outposts with better conditions of success. Meanwhile, Good Hope station, on Sherbro island, is favorably situated as a base of supplies and easy communication with Sierra Leone and the civilized world. The past experience of the Mendi mission has taught some valuable lessons. 1. That the white missionary cannot be depended on for permanent work, by reason of the deadly climate. 2. That the pure black, of good constitution, although born in America, can endure the climate, and is to be the future African missionary. 3. That a competent superintendence is desirable for this African work. 4. That extreme and deliberate care is demanded in the selection of missionaries to Africa, in respect both to physical health and thorough character. 5. That when such selections have been made, our missionaries should be better equipped and provided for than they have been in the past, for efficient and progressive work. A false economy has involved too much loss. The supporters of the Association have only need of intelligent and exact information to see and remedy this defect. A mission steamer for the Mendi work is greatly needed to save time, health, labor, and in the end, money. So are other industrial equipments that might be named, fairly essential to the highest and speediest spiritual results. Your Committee recommend that the Mendi mission be put in good repair, that, any dropped stitches be taken up, that the things which remain be strengthened, particularly in respect to its sanitary and industrial basis, and better conditions for pushing its stations further into the interior.