But the war killed slavery and buried it beyond resurrection.  Logically, it also killed the State Rights doctrine.  But we fear it “still lives” in the heart of Jefferson Davis, and in the hearts of the many millions who still revere him as the leader of the “lost cause.”  Its avowal is still heard from Southern lips and in the Southern press.  Will there be any occasion for its revival into active life?  We fear there will be.  Slavery has left behind it a ghost which no more than that of Banquo will “down.”  Race prejudice is as unyielding in the Southern heart to-day as was the purpose once to maintain slavery.  Should that prejudice persist in its inexorable demands, another contest may arise, in which the enfranchised millions may be goaded to take part, and the North, as in the case of slavery, may be involved in the dreadful struggle.  At what time in the coming hundred years of the Constitution this new struggle may come, no one can predict.  The crisis will not be averted by merely deprecating it, and we know of no Compromise that can reach it.  The only possible relief that we can see is by educating the Negro, till he shall rise to a position that will challenge the respect of his fellow-citizens and secure to him his equal rights under the glorious Constitution of the United States of America.

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REV.  C.W.  HIATT.

The American Missionary Association has divided its Western Collecting Field.  The boundary separating the two parts is the western line of Indiana.  Dr. Roy, who has made so honorable record in the past, will retain the western portion with his office still in Chicago.  The eastern portion will have its headquarters in Cleveland.  Rev. C.W.  Hiatt has been invited to take this District Secretaryship, and we have now the pleasure of announcing his acceptance.  Mr. Hiatt is not unknown in his district, having made his mark in his pastorate in Columbus, Ohio.  We ask the churches to give him a cordial welcome for his own sake as well as that of the Association.

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PARAGRAPHS.

The letter of Dr. Pond in this number was written in response to a request from a Northern lady for hints in regard to the methods of teaching the Chinese.  Many besides this lady will find profit in reading it.  The article on “Church Building in a Day” cannot fail to interest.  We only wish we could add that church services were held in the building on the following day, but of this we are ignorant.  If any of our readers are desirous of knowing what expedients our missionaries among the Indians have to resort to in administering the communion at their out-stations, let them read “One Day’s Missionary Work,” by Rev. T.L.  Riggs.  We give our readers also a problem in the letter from Miss Collins at Fort Yates, “What shall we do about it?”