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 truly free. All great things have small beginnings, — so had this; yet, beginning in this simple and humble way, this Society has been led on by Divine Providence to the accomplishment, already, of great deeds; and promises in the end to regenerate and bless with freedom and happiness two great Continents. Truly may we say, in the words of the distinguished Dr. Beecher, that this is "God's Society." "I do not think," said he, in his Colonization address at Pittsburgh, "I do not think that a Society, heaven moved as this Society was, by such wisdom as Samuel J. Mills was blessed with, — by such wisdom as he commanded into its service, — moved on by such faith and prayer, and so blessed of heaven as this has been in its past labors, and still is, — could have been born of wisdom from beneath. I would say of this Society, it is God's Society. In its commencement it was his; in its progress it has been his; and the station it now occupies in the midst of all the difficulties which have grown out of inexperience and the peculiar nature of the subject — as well as its success in Africa — all show it to be his.

The same vigorous writer — Dr. Beecher — in the following striking passage, presents a comprehensive view of the whole matter which we have been laboring to set forth in these pages — namely, the reason for the Divine permission of the slave — trade and slavery, the after-return of those slaves to Africa by the process of colonization, and the final civilizing and Christianizing of that whole Continent. "There is no such thing,"