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Rh citizen, and 18 preachers, members of conference, and several local preachers; 19 week-day schools are maintained, for both natives and colonists; and two High Schools are in operation, where classical education is given to both boys and girls. This body of Christians has several missionary stations among the heathen; several native preachers, and has 32 native boys, who are placed in equal numbers in the families of its ministers "for instruction in letters and in home and industrial affairs."

The body is formed into a synod, with some 8 or 10 ministers. It maintains some 4 or 5 mission stations among the heathen; but is specially noted for the most important educational establishment in the Republic—, in Monrovia; where a number of youth have received a superior education; and now some of them are holding most responsible positions in the government, as well as in the churches, and in mercantile life. The have some 12 chapels and ministers; and a large membership throughout the Republic. In Monrovia they maintain an important High School, where both boys and girls receive a good and thorough English education, with mathematical training. They are united in a Conference, which meets annually in different parts of the Republic.

The are a missionary body, under the direction of the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States. The following will exhibit the agency and the work of this Mission:—