The free Negro schools in the South are vitalized by a number of strong central institutions under Northern men that train the picked growth of the race as teachers. This is, I think, the true relation of Eastern charity to the Indian. There should be an excellent boarding and industrial school at each important agency for this purpose. Getting fifteen dollars a month of government for food and clothing for each pupil need not in the least weaken the independence or morals of teachers. The friends of the Indian will do the rest. The situation is critical, the opportunity is great; the rising tide of public sentiment, the movement at Washington, the eagerness as well as the exigency of the red man mean much. But this work needs a leader; it will drag if thrown on an overloaded man. The man is as much as the money; the one will bring the other, both by wise appeals and good work that will commend itself to the country. For more than a century Indians rejected our civilization; now their thinking men, for they are a race of thinkers, forecast the future and wish their children taught the white man’s way as their only hope. They do not choose this; they are compelled to it. Hundreds, thousands, are waiting for an education. They beg for what they once refused. * * * * * THE CHINESE. * * * * * REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. Your Committee on the Chinese Mission of the Association have agreed upon the following report: There are three points which demand special thanksgiving to God. First. The manifestly wise policy of the Association on the whole question of Christianizing the Chinese. This appears (1) in the noble stand it has taken and the work it is doing for education and Christianity on our Pacific coast, thus uttering a perpetual rebuke to the intolerable selfishness and barbarism of political parties in the passage of the anti-Chinese bill; (2) in the admirable disposition made of the proposed mission in China itself.