By our liberal things we shall stand. We have sent men and women and means with large generosity, that inquired not whether they served our own denomination or another, if only Christ’s cause be promoted. The work already done is a fair movement to self-forgetful charity. We should now make our beneficence more and more the channel of grace and fellowship to brethren whom we have made brethren. If we do indeed hold this church polity on such terms of intelligence as to make it fit to hold it at all, if it be no fault of the awakened ones at the South that they hold it, then what has been so good and fruitful here we should make strong and fruitful there. And if this Association has come in its legitimate growth to the establishment of self-governed churches, accept them as our own. Our seal is on them from the first. The time is ripe for larger advance, and for more confidence in our own work. It is with gratitude we acknowledge the liberal plan with which this Association is now supplementing its evangelizing and teaching work with the timely and necessary work of church erection. It is part of the same work. Nearly fourscore neat and serviceable church edifices have already arisen under its auspices. No better work and none looking more to permanent results has been done. Many a missionary and pastor has found his work at once enlarged and all his means of good multiplied, when the house of God has been given him by its aid. And every such edifice stands forth as an eloquent witness of your loving care for the people of the South, and serves as a bond of union between the distant parts of our land. The same divine ordinance that opened this field to us, prescribes our work in it. Now that our mission reveals itself, shall we not accept it thankfully, impress ourselves purposely on this vast field, and let the poor of all classes feel the strength of Christian community and fellowship—for we are one? LEWELLYN PRATT, Chairman. * * * * * ADDRESS OF REV. T. P. PRUDDEN. Assuming that the church work of the Association was not for sectarian propagandism, but for saving men from sin and its consequences, he proceeded: