are getting in civil and political life, in the use of the ballot, in the forming and reconstructing of states, in the framing of constitutions, in making and executing laws, in all the varied and complicated duties of citizens, magistrates, judges and rulers, that they may know how laws, states and nations are made and sustained, and so be prepared to go and plant these institutions and principles in the land of their fathers. And then, last and best of all, what an experience are they getting in the work of organizing and running Christian schools and pure churches among their own people, under the lead of our teachers and preachers in the South, that they may be prepared to do this same blessed work in that dark land which is so imploringly calling to them, as her own sons and daughters, to come with the school and the church to her help. I love to look at the work of the American Missionary Association in this Divine light. I love to come up in this way upon these highlands of God’s movements in Africa, and among her sons on our shores in this our day, and to get, as I think I can, in this way, some good look at the sweep and the purpose of His providence in the otherwise strange revolutions through which Africa, the Africans, and we ourselves are so swiftly passing. And now, what is wanting to bring this divinely planned enterprise to a speedy and glorious consummation, but that we do all come quick and glad into line with God?—that the Freedmen, the American Missionary Association, all its noble constituency of churches, the whole rank and file of God’s American army, tread firm and true to the music of His providence? So shall be generously furnished the men and the means He now asks, by which to hasten, in His time, the redemption of Africa unto Himself. * * * * * ADDRESS AT NASHVILLE, AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL. BY SECRETARY STRIEBY. As we are about to lay the corner-stone of a new school building, it is proper that I should answer the question, Why do we come down from the North to erect these buildings in the South?