with an increased love for the Lord’s dear people whom they had met and tried to serve. Doubtless good was done in sowing seed, which will appear in future fruitfulness in prayer and sympathy and contributions for these several causes, which are one. As the huntsman looks for his game after the fire, we shall be looking for the A. M. A. bagging out in that country, which one of our representatives says is the finest part of the United States. * * * * * THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD. That is the loftiest argument for home missions. God evidently intended that this should be made a great missionary nation. If it had been discovered and settled much earlier we should have had simply a transference of the old world civilization, with all of its spiritual despotism. As it was, South America and Mexico did receive that inheritance, and our territory, once claimed by the Pope, and actually recognized as belonging to the Catholic countries France and Spain, as appears from old maps and globes, has barely escaped by the overruling of Providence, which has given it to the English-speaking Protestantism, and by the evangelism developed through American Christianity. Prof. Phelps was right when he wrote: “Were I a missionary in Canton, my first prayer every morning would be for America in behalf of Canton.” This idea gives a grandeur to the march of the American Home Missionary Society across the continent. The course of missionaries is now largely changed. Once they set sail from our shores eastward, now they cross our national domain to go westward. We cry, all hail, to that right wing of Immanuel’s army that is sweeping the land from ocean to ocean. Already our own American Board is finding the West its best hunting-ground for missionaries to go abroad. It is even going into the cabins of the frontiersmen, as well as to the Western Theological Seminaries, to find its consecrated men and women. And this is proving to be choice material to make our Lord’s world-conquerors out of. Men who have lifted up axes upon the thick trees, and have come into contact with affairs, have the hardy stuff needed in the work abroad. So the American Missionary Association is the left wing of the Congregational corps that is seeking to subdue this realm to our King, the Christ. To this end was its former work at the West, where it had its seventy-nine home missionaries. To this end is its scheme for helping in the evangelizing of the Aborigines, who have made way for us to build up our nation. To this end is our movement in behalf of the six millions of our colored fellow-citizens; a movement which, as we are humbly grateful to be able to say, God has made great. To this end is our mission among the Chinese, whom God has wondrously brought to our door to receive the Gospel.