As to the Arthington mission, in its connection with the other generous and thoughtful projects of this enthusiastic friend of Africa, and in connection also with other Christian missions, and particularly that of the United Presbyterians on the Lower Nile, already dotting that Eastern coast, we approve of the measures under progress by Superintendent Rev. Henry M. Ladd and Dr. E. E. Snow for exploring the Sobat region, and getting all possible light on a desirable location and all other matters involved in a wise prosecution of the work proposed. Should it prove feasible, we advise, as in the case of the Mendi mission, a generous equipment, the providing of a good physical basis, particularly in the procurement of a steamer of light draft, adapted to such rivers as the Sobat and the Jub. Also at no distant day, the establishment somewhere on African soil, in a salubrious quarter and with favorable contacts with civilization, of an educational institution for young native Africans, combining the best features of the Lovedale School in South Africa, and the Hampton School in Virginia. We believe that such a school will be essential to the best development of our future work in Africa, not only for the training of native missionaries, but for the fundamental lessons of industry and self-help that should be woven from the start into a Christian civilization. It would also prove a stimulus and an outlet for the various gifts of our educated Freedmen in this country, and furnish a wise direction to their growing enthusiasm for that African work sooner or later to demand them, when princes shall come out of Egypt, and “Ethiopia,” as Dr. Edward Blyden renders it, “shall _suddenly_ stretch out her hands unto God.” It is also incumbent upon this Association, as the peculiar helper of these Freedmen, to bend its utmost and untiring efforts to develop in them that prime, indispensable, and, by reason of their past limitations, sadly deficient prerequisite for missionary success—a thorough character—builded on the only sure foundations—that “fear of the Lord” which is “the beginning of wisdom,” and the love which fulfills His law. As it appears that the foothold of future success for the Arthington mission will largely depend upon the good-will of the Egyptian Government, it is evident that vigilant care should be taken in all possible ways to secure that good-will, and the alliance of all moral and diplomatic aids from our own and European governments which are interested in projects like that of the “International Association” for the civilization of Africa.