we will share in the triumph.  Dr. Strieby, you can remember just before this society was formed, that it was a disgrace to be an abolitionist.  It is a glory now.  The day is not far distant, yea, its light is already breaking in the western sky, when it will be considered equally glorious to have helped save our Indian brother, by leading him back again to God.  And while we are doing it, and as a means to this end, we must try to get this Indian ring by the throat and strangle its life.  It has lived long enough on the blood of the Indian; let it die, and we will never say “the Lord have mercy on its soul,” for it has none.  If you have never been interested in the matter before, begin to-day; if you have never helped before, help now.  Get in somewhere, get in quick, get in all over; do not stand around the edges looking on and criticising others; be sure you get your pocket book open, and send the Treasurer of the Association double what you did last year; do something, do anything.  We have been playing at missions long enough.  With our great wealth it is a disgrace that this work was not completed long ago.  With an aroused and awakened Church the whole problem will be solved, for there will be no more Indians, but only brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.

    Let us fear nothing, God is with us and we shall triumph. 
    “Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne,
    Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown
    Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.”

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REPORT ON CHINESE WORK.

BY REV.  SIMEON GILBERT, D.D., CHAIRMAN.

1.  Is it worth while to attempt Christian missions among the Chinese in our own country?

2.  If so, of how much importance is it?

3.  Who should do it?

4.  If anything is to be done by us, how much should be done?

5.  And is there any case of urgency about it?

To the first question we answer:  Yes, verily!  It is worth while.  There is no form of Christian missions within the circuits of the earth more worthy of being done, and of being done with all possible alacrity and vigor, than this.  The American Missionary Association is exactly the Society to do it.  It is the glory of this Society to hasten to the rescue of the despised and the exceptional races and classes in our own land.  It has already done grand things toward the evangelization of the Chinese among us.  It has set an example, most conspicuous in the eyes of all the people, of definitely planning to make known to this peculiar people the Gospel of Redemption; a Gospel whose supreme peculiarity it is, that it is fitted to meet the inmost necessities of all men, of all men alike.

The success in winning the disciples of Confucius to the cross and the grace of Christ has been signal enough to show how completely practicable the undertaking is.