This is my deliberate conviction, based upon such knowledge of the Southern People as comes from the fact of having been born and bred among them, and from my observation among the more cultivated families that go there from this region. You will permit me to say, therefore, that in my judgment the proposed policy of our societies is a mistaken one. Most of the reasons that influence our brethren who guide the policies of these missionary organizations I have considered, and largely sympathize with their spirit; and if the plan were practicable, I would see no Christian reason why it should not be carried out. But if we desire to secure a foothold for Congregationalism among the respectable white people of the South, and enlarge our borders in that direction, we must adopt the only policy that will gain this end, and have churches composed predominantly, if not exclusively, of white people, as well as churches composed mainly of black people for the blacks. We may argue against caste in the churches of Jesus Christ, and resolve that we will not be a party to its perpetuation anywhere under the sun. Very well, then we must not hope for a successful propagation of our denominational principles among the ruling classes of the South, for they will not enter into church relations with the colored people. After the churches are separately organized, and while they are separately maintained, they will affiliate in associations and conventions, but the limit will be drawn at the line of the church. However unrighteous, this is a stubborn fact—and anybody who has good knowledge of the Southern character will know that it is to remain as stubborn for all time to come. Mixed churches among us, where colored people are comparatively few, and in the South, where colored people are so numerous, are very different things. For among us the predominant element in the churches will remain predominant, and it is an easy matter for 500 white Christians to associate with five of another race and color. But for 250 white Christians to associate in churches on equal terms with 250 “colored” Christians is another, and by no means a comfortable thing. Before the war, negroes and their masters were in the same churches and enjoyed the association, but the negroes sat in the galleries, and in other ways were not put upon an equality. WHO SHALL WORK SOUTH?—THE QUESTION STATED. BY REV. L. W. BACON, D.D.