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Rh gathered churches, and maintained the preaching of the Gospel, protected missionaries and seen native converts received into Christian communion. Not a colony has been attempted without leading to these results. Take the three colonies of Cape Palmas, (the Maryland colony) Liberia proper, and Sierra Leone, the British colony, (formed of slaves who fled to the British during our Revolutionary war) and within their bounds you find considerably upwards of 100 missionaries and assistant missionaries, many of them of African descent, and some of them native Africans, now successfully labouring in the regeneration of Africa: and we see as the true fruit of their labours something like 15,000 regular communicants in Christian churches, a much larger number regular attendants upon the preaching of the Gospel, and many tens of thousands of natives perfectly accessible to Christian influences. All this has been done since the settlement of Sierra Leone in 1787, and most of it since the settlement of Liberia, in 1822. The results of the other system after a trial of more than 300 years, are certainly very small, although we have not the exact statistics. Whatever general views we have as to the best mode of conducting Christian missions, and whatever view we may take of colonization in its other aspects, one practical conclusion of incalculable value has undoubtedly been reached, viz. that the establishment and sustenance of colonies of Christian negroes in the country is the best, if not the only practicable mode of advancing the 3