under the most intense provocations, he brings all his men back to Zanzibar—a hearty, merry, jovial set. This gives you a little idea of the inevitable difficulties of African exploration. As to the encouragements, the first one I think of (and it is a great one) is that our Lord, who leads us to victory, has made Africa and told us to go there. The next is the testimony of our latest travelers to the grand success of mission work. Thompson says that while the Belgian expeditions have failed, while the stations of the International Association have failed because of the lack of character in the men who have led them, the Livingstonian mission, the Free Church of Scotland mission, the London Missionary Society’s mission, and various other missions have all proved solid civilizing centres. Desolating wars have ceased; the slave trade in their region is ended; the moral tone of the natives has been evidently already lifted up. But we must have in this missionary work more regard to a physical basis. It is wrong, brethren, to send such men as Henry M. Ladd and Edward P. Smith, and let them travel in open boats, exposed with their native boatmen to almost certain death. The fact is that the sentinel of death stands five miles out from the coast of Africa to warn almost every traveler not to sleep on its shores in such a region as that. If we send out these noble men who hazard their lives for this work, we must give them these steamers—the “John Brown” steamer at the Mendi mission, and the “Charles Sumner” steamer at the Nile Basin station. * * * * * FROM ADDRESS OF REV. GEO. S. DICKERMAN.