Our country has illustrated all these methods of treatment of the weaker races. Its cry has been toward the Indian—its characteristic cry almost from the very first—“Kill him; there is no good Indian but a dead Indian;” and that sentiment, that barbarism, has not yet altogether been exterminated from the land. Our country has said of the great African race, “Enslave them; use them; subordinate them to our own uses; make them our hewers of wood and drawers of water, our chattels, our breeders of children; use them without conscience; subordinate them to our own supposed good.” And even now our land, this land of freedom, to which we all came strangers at some past time, has issued its edict through its highest courts that the Chinaman shall be shut out from all access to our civilization and our Christianity. Brethren, the glory and joy of this American Missionary Association is that its work has been from the beginning to reach out to those who were weakest, who were most in need, who were most neglected. Thank God that there is one place where the sentiment may be centred and emphasized that “God hath made of one blood all nations of men that dwell upon the face of the whole earth;” and though it may be true that for a time “He hath fixed the bounds of their habitation,” yet it is not so sure that these bounds were in his purpose fixed to outlast the breaking down of those barriers which the progress of Christian civilization surely brings. * * * * *