Nor by this concentration will the Association lose sight of Africa. It believes as much as ever that God means that the Freedmen have not only a great duty and destiny here, but that they have also a special call and fitness to bear the Gospel to the land of their fathers. In its schools and churches it will direct their attention to this field, and endeavor to inspire them with the missionary spirit. The only change will be in the hands that shall lead them to Africa and guide and cheer them on in the work there. The Association and the Board will work harmoniously and more efficiently to this great end, the one on this continent, the other on that. The A. M. A. is prepared to do an enlarged work among the Indians. Popular consent in the churches supporting the Association has assigned to it especially the care of the colored races in America. There is a fitness in putting these together; they are alike alien to European blood: they are alike the victims of caste prejudice, and they alike need schools as well as churches. The Association has been the strenuous opponent of race oppression and caste prejudice, and has devoted itself to the varied modes of industrial, educational and church work needed by these races. They should no longer be regarded as the subject of foreign mission efforts. The Indians, for example, are the original inhabitants of the land, and the strenuous efforts of those most interested in their welfare are to induce the government to make no treaties with them as foreigners, but to bring them as rapidly as possible into the ranks of citizens, sharing the protection of law and holding lands in severalty. It is a hindrance to this desirable consummation if the Indians are treated ecclesiastically and religiously as foreigners. If the State makes them citizens the church ought certainly to regard them as “no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens.” On the other hand, no home mission board with its simple plan for aiding in the formation of churches and the support of ministers can adequately meet their wants. They need the school and the industrial training as well as the church, and these the A. M. A. is prepared to furnish and to carry forward under the light of its ample experience in the South.