conversion of men, and for the raising up of broad, intelligent, and thoroughly equipped teachers and preachers for the benighted and perishing, than were heathen lands. The activities of our daily life, the forces of our liberty, learning, piety, government, _must_ do immensely more for a man in America than the feeble pulses of gospel life and light can do for him in China and Africa. How much easier, then, the conversion of heathen under the blaze of our Christian sky, and how much stronger and better men can we make of them to undertake the salvation of their own lands! The great want is the means—both men and money—to throw upon the Pacific slopes, upon the Indian reservations, the Southern savannas, a Christian force large enough to put these races under thorough Christian culture. Anything less than this will fail of the end. It is an opportunity to lay hold of the unsaved races, such as is likely never to come again; which it would not only be unwise to neglect, but deeply criminal not to improve. God sets before us this open door, and not to enter in is to peril _their_ future as well as our own. A responsibility greater than this could hardly be given to men, and an eye to see it and a soul to feel it are what, beyond all things, our people need. C. L. WOODWORTH * * * * * THE IMPRESSIONS OF TEN YEARS. BY PRESIDENT PATTON OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY. The present educational year completes the tenth of my connection with Howard University, and thus with the work of educating the Negro race. An “Abolitionist” since the spring of the year 1837, I have ever felt a deep interest in the welfare of this oppressed people, and the fact of their present freedom has only changed the direction of my anxiety and effort. For I know that the brightness of their future depends upon industry, education, morality and religion. And to this end they must have Christian schools and churches, and an industrial training in shop and store as well as in garden and farm. My experience as president of an institution which in its seven departments—industrial, normal, preparatory, collegiate, legal, medical and theological—covers well the entire range of instruction, except the primary branches, has given opportunity to observe the capacity and the actual progress of the Negro, and to study the wants of the race in this country.