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 past finding out." Although, we were not permitted to receive his dying testimony to the trust, we have the fullest assurance that our loss is his unspeakable and eternal gain.

At the sixth triennial meeting of the General Missionary Convention, 1829, the committee on the African Mission made this report which in some particulars was paradoxical:

The next item of this report is an appeal for "some "brethren of competent talents" to go and labor there.

There surely was ground for regret that so small a portion of benevolent feeling was exercised towards this mission. Some individuals did contribute now and then; "A Georgia Planter" sent a part of $10; a "poor woman" of the Rev. H. Malcom's congregation sent $3 for the African mission; "a friend to Africa avails of jewelry for mission to Liberia, per Mr. E. Lincoln, $6"; the