The Baptists are next in number to the Methodists.  The Northern Baptist Board, having its seat in Boston, has in Liberia one mission, two out-stations, one boarding school, and two day schools, with about twenty scholars each, one native preacher, and four native assistants.  The whole mission is in the hands of converted natives.  The Southern Board operates more extensively.  More than a year since, the Rev. John Day, its principal agent there, reported to the Rev. R.R.  Gurley, United States Commissioner to Liberia, as follows: 

“In our schools are taught, say, 330 children, 92 of whom are natives.  To more than 10,000 natives, the Word of Life is statedly preached; and in every settlement in these colonies, we have a church, to whom the means of grace are administered; and in every village we have an interesting Sunday school, where natives as well as colonists are taught the truths of God’s word.  Say, in our Sunday schools, are taught 400 colonists, and 200 natives....  We have this year baptized 18 natives and 7 colonists, besides what have been baptized by Messrs. Murray and Drayton, from whom I have had no report.”

     The missionaries are all, or nearly all, Liberian citizens.

The Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States has five missionaries at four stations in Liberia.  The first is at Monrovia, under the care of the Rev. Harrison W. Ellis, well known as “the Learned Black Blacksmith.”  While a slave in Alabama, and working at his trade as a blacksmith, he acquired all the education, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Theology, which is required for ordination as a Presbyterian minister.  The Presbyterians of that region then bought him, and sent him out as a missionary.  His assistant, Mr. B.V.R.  James, a colored man, was for some years a printer in the service of the American Board at their mission at Cape Palmas and the Gaboon River.  He first went to Liberia as a teacher, supported by a society of ladies in New York.  In the Presbyterian Church under the care of Mr. Ellis are 39 communicants.  During the year, 24 had been added, and 8 had been dismissed to form a new church in another place.  Mr. Ellis also has charge of the “Alexander High School,” which is intended mainly for teaching the rudiments of a classical education.  This institution has an excellent iron school-house, given by a wealthy citizen of New York, at the cost of one thousand dollars, and a library and philosophical apparatus, which cost six hundred dollars, given by a gentleman in one of the southern States.  The library contains a supply of classical works, probably equal to the wants of the school for some years.  The land needed for the accommodation of the school was given by the government of Liberia.  The number of scholars appears to be between twenty and thirty, a part of whom support themselves by their daily labor.  The English High