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48 a recent occasion, to attend prayers in his family, because his native boys could read and she could not. Her ignorance of letters shamed her, "and made her feel," to use her own wise expression, "more than ever before the importance of education." These comparisons are becoming too frequent; and by and by they will extend to communities as well as to individuals, unless avc provide more fully for the improvement of our own colonists. But I only mention the above facts in order to show how rapid is the advance of the heathen in our own knowledge and acquaintance. And now the question arises, are these people to be quickened by letters to become only intelligent heathen? Are we, by contact with them, to give them only an intellectual paganism? Is our influence upon them to touch only the brain, and not life, manners, the family, society? or rather should we not as a Nation, take upon ns the duty of so training these people, that as they receive the language, so they may likewise receive the civilization, the order, the industry, and the mild, but transforming influence's of a regulated Christian state? The Mission of Liberia, in its civil aspects, is clear to my mind. This nation is to restore society all along our coast; and by restoring society to regulate social life, to quicken in its growth the "tender plant of confidence," in both a direct and indirect manner to elevate the domestic state, to give rise to industrial activity, and to establidi good neighborhood. However humble the eil'ort may be. still it seems to me that we ought to have, in each county, an industrial School for native bovs who are fugitives, or wander-