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Rh whom they could have nothing in common, and soon the missionaries sunk under the influence of the climate, and their labours perished with them. Although, since the settlement of Liberia, the climate seems less malignant in its effects upon the white man, yet nothing seems more clearly indicated by Providence than that Africa is not to be Christianized by the direct labours of the white race. Even were there no colonization of coloured people in the country, it would be better to employ coloured missionaries than white ones. Rev. Mr. Pinney has shown, by a calculation made several years ago, that the average missionary life of white missionaries in Africa has been less than two and a half years, whilst that of coloured missionaries, even from this country, has been ten or twelve times as long. Of late, however, the fatality among the white missionaries has not been so great.

I fully sympathize with the profound impression which is constantly taking a wider and deeper hold upon the American mind, and is extending among the intelligent people of Great Britain, that the mighty and glorious work of regenerating this continent, has, in the scheme of God's providence, been assigned to her own long exiled sons, who are to return, not like the prodigal son, weary, worn, and wretched, but like Jacob coming out from Padan-Aram, all laden with riches and full of hope. Surely there can be no means so well adapted to the end as this. When the intelligent American born negro touches African soil, he must feel