the most cultured of English-speaking people superior to the Britons, long after Cæsar's vasion.

Seeing that the greatest fact of the history African slavery in the United States is the Ch tianizing of hundreds of thousands of them, I c clude that Christianizing them was the gra providential design in their coming to this count It is, by the way, a significant fact, that the w Africans appeared on these shores long before the was a thought of a Foreign Missionary Society the American Churches. Who knows but that t heathen who were brought to us largely moved t Churches to send the Gospel to the heathen their own lands? He who cannot, through all t mists and clouds of this strange and troubled hi tory, see the hand of God in their coming to th country, can hardly understand the "going down of Israel "into Egypt."

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Let us refer to that history a moment. would "raise up a peculiar people." The proble of a Hebrew race, of comparatively pure bloo could not have been worked out in Canaan, with i roving shepherd life. As far back as the "call" o Abraham out of "Ur of the Chaldees" we see th hand of Providence in manifold adjustments tha issued in separating this one family from their fire worshiping kindred the other side of the Euphrates The same design is manifested in God's dealin

Africansheathen all - had been set down in America about the time the children of the Pilgrim Fathers were getting a foothold in Massachusetts and the Cavaliers were establishing their settlements in Virginia and the Carolinas; and suppose there had not been, as there was from the beginning, spontaneous and resistless, one instinct of caste attraction and repulsion, and that there had been no obstacle to free intermarriage. Very soon there would have been no African race in this country. The issue would have been largely different; there would have been no heathen African race to train to useful arts, sturdy strength, and manly character, to lift up and to Christianize; but a Christian white race might have been largely heathenized. How would such a mingling of bloods as is here supposed have effected the development of civilization in the United States? It is a question that one who loves free institutions and has hope that his country holds a blessing for the world, does not like to consider.

Furthermore, had such an issue followed the introduction of the heathen negroes into this country, there would have been for continental Africa, with her uncounted millions, no morning star of hope shining over the lowly cabins and humble sanctuaries of their Christianized brethren in America. For we must never forget the ultimate outcome of this vast movement; we must never forget that the