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, resident at New Georgia, late members of the first Baptist Church in this place [Monrovia], having been dismissed by letters, were brought into visibility as a Church, in the place of their residence. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Skinner, — charge and right hand of fellowship by Rev. H. Teage, and concluding prayer by Rev. A. W. Anderson. The exercises of the occasion were truly solemnly pleasing and impressive. They naturally threw the mind back to the period, when they who were thus solemnly dedicating themselves to God, to be constituted into a ‘golden candlestick,’ from which the Divine light is to chase the surrounding gloom, were themselves in the darkness of nature, without God, without revelation, and consequently without the hope it inspires."

Here, truly, is fruit; here is success; here is effective missionary action. Not often can such results of missionary labors be shown. In truth, Africa is the grandest missionary field in the world: but colored men, Africans themselves, must be the missionaries.

Here follows another item from the same paper. It is a communication from a correspondent of the Herald, in Monrovia, and relates to the dedication of a Presbyterian Church:

"Mr. Editor, as every circumstance which has any relation to the spreading of our blessed religion in Africa, must have a tendency to give satisfaction to every lover and follower of the religion of Jesus Christ — you will confer a favor on one of your constant readers by giving publication to this. Having under — stood that the First Presbyterian Church was to be dedicated to the service of God on the 26th of