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116 churches, yea, and have carried schools and the Gospel to Rabba, 400 miles up the Niger. This representation of the missionary character of Sierra Leone is incomplete, without a reference to the labors of the Wesleyans and the Lady Huntington connection; which two bodies maintain many ministers and catechists, have built several chapels, and have succeeded in converting to the faith near as large a body of members as the Church of England. The have 19 missionaries and assistants in all their stations, including Sierra Leone, Lagos, Abbeokuta, &c.; about 300 lay agents, 54 chapels, 45 day schools, and near 9,000 church members.

At the distance of about 60 miles below Sierra Leone the American Missionary Association have important stations, in the Mendi country, which have already been fruitful in converts, Lave tended to the suppression of native wars, have prompted native industrv, and have originated an active commercial spirit. Some idea of the extent of their operations may be gathered from the fact, that the expenditure for the Mendi mission for 1801 amounted to $16,000.

Lower down the coast, that is, from Sierra Leone to lat. 4°, is the territory of Liberia, where American Christians—Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians—have been maintaining their missions nigh 40 years, both among natives and colonics.

The result of these efforts is, that the, the leading denomination of Christians, is now organized as a national church, with a bishop, a colored