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their ancestral land, and made not less clear the duty of the citizens of this country to assist them in their emigration, and their mighty work for their race. Amid many conflicting opinions and cloudy speculations touching the African race, Christian men do not question the universal obligations of mutual benevolence between men every where, and few, perhaps, deny that this law of duty should govern nations as well as individuals. In our treatment of the Indian tribes, our Federal Government has shown at least a partial recognition of this law, and while our free people of color, in most parts of the country suffer heavy disabilities, it would seem reasonable that the State and General Governments should co-operate in measures to enable them to recover their inheritance in Africa, opening thereby to their heathen brethren the Gates of Christian Civilization, and to the United States the commerce and treasures of the great tropical region of the world.

The great enterprize to which our free people of color are summoned, is suited to discipline their faculties and ennoble their character, and in bestowing blessings upon others, they will doubly bless themselves. A writer in the Public Ledger, of Philadelphia, of the 27th ult., justly says:

"Causes will operate there to develope the talents, invigorate the faculties, and dignify their purposes. There they will not be depressed by the consideration of their past condition, and by the presence of another race of superior powers and attainments.

"Upon this high and unexceptionable ground, the Wise, the Patriotic, and Religious of every portion of the Union may cordially unite. The citizens, the States, and the General Government can join in its intent upon accomplishing a great and good end by virtuous means. The latter is estimated to have appropriated to help the Indians in this country, $200,000,000 within the last thirty years. These disbursements have arisen now to over $5,000,000 annually. If Congress can thus constitutionally grant money to remove and settle the Indians, why can it not pursue the same course for the [liberated] Africans? The people of color are beginning to appreciate the fact that invaluable as freedom is to others, it is comparatively of little value to them. They are looking to Africa as their ultimate home, and where the whites will be dependent upon them for Missionary and commercial agencies. One hundred and eight of the colored residents of Pennsylvania were colonized in Liberia during the years 1859 and 1860, and as large a number are now desirious of sharing in the same bounty. Let all aid the Colonization Society in the settlement of these people in that Republic. Help will be required only until the commerce which is rapidly growing between Africa and this country will furnish facilities for the same emigration from America to Africa, that is now taking place between Europe and this continent."

FROM LIBERIA.

We have received despatches from Dr. James Hall, dated on board the Mary Caroline Stevens, off Cape Palmas, January 5, 1861, containing a copy of the treaty concluded between him as Commissioner of the American Colonization Society and the Liberian Government, to carry into complete effect the Resolutions of the Directors at their special meeting on the 24th and 25th of October. We are gratified to learn that the important business assigned to Dr. Hall was adjusted and completed very harmoneously, and that certain objects of interest, the erection of the Liberian College, and the completion of the road to Careysburg, are going forward with energyWe now look daily for the return of the Stevens.

Applications for a passage in the Stevens, to sail from Baltimore for Liberia, May 1, should be made immediately.

THE STEVENS' OUTWARD VOYAGE.

The Rev. C. C. Hoffman, of the Liberia Episcopal Mission, thus narrates incidents attending the last trip out of the Colonization Packet Mary Caroline Stevens:

"Having left Baltimore on the 3d of November, we passed Cape Henry on the 7th. For the first twenty days we had most favorable wind and weather, so that we thought that we should have a remarkably short passage; for the last thirteen days, however, we had calms and light winds. We have thus crossed the ocean in thirty-three days, and we cannot but consider ourselves greatly blessed. Besides our own party, we have had five cabin passengers and eighty emigrants. Our voyage has been without accident, and attended with many blessings. I have been able to have daily morning and evening prayer in the cabin, and in the evening among the emigrants; the morning prayer has been conducted by one of themselves, a Methodist Minister. We have had two services on deck every Sunday that we have been out. Hoffman and Miss Merriam have, when the weather and their health allowed, gathered the children, thirty-two in number, for instruction. There are a number of very nice children on board, and the emigrants are of a better class than any previous expedition that I have sailed with. Our accommodations on board have been excellent, and our Captain kind and polite.

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nearly 1,100 feet high; about fifty houses are plainly seen from our ship, scattered along the hill-side. I was on shore for an hour. The people expressed themselves as contented and happy. The settlement is considered a healthy one."-Colonization Herald.

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The annual meeting of the Bath Colonization Society was held on Monday evening, February 25, in the vestry of the Winter Street Church.

The meeting was opened by the reading of appropriate selections from the Scriptures, and prayer by Rev. Mr. Matthews, of the Baptist Church.

The President, who has lately been in Washington, attending the annual meeting of the National Society, made some encouraging remarks respecting what the Society has already accomplished, and what, by the blessing of God, it is fitted to do in future.

A beautiful and earnest address was then delivered by the Rev. Mr. Mines, of the Episcopal Church. A delightful picture was sketched of Africa as it will appear, when Christianity, heralded and helped on by vigorous measures of colonization, shall have achieved in that lone, benighted continent, its desired work. Following this was an able, comprehensive, and finely finished view of the capabilites of the African race, and of the grounds of our large indebtedness to it, by Rev. Mr. Dike, of the New Jerusalem Church. As it is hoped selections from both of these addresses will be printed in the columns of the papers of this city, it will be unnecessary further to character

ize them.

Suffice it to say, that this nineteenth anniversary of the Bath Colonization Society, passed off much to the gratification of its friends. The arguments presenting the practical and immeasurable advantages of our enterprise never appeared more satisfactory; and we address ourselves to the duties and events of another year, we hope, with devote gratitude for the past, and profound confidence that the God of Heaven will still prosper us in our labor to benefit a long neglected class of our fellow men. Two continents will yet arise and pronounce their benedictions on the earnest and steadfast friends of this Heaven-born charity.

The following resolution was offered and accepted, to be placed on the records of the Society:

Resolved, That while we mourn the decease of one of our early Presidents, the Rev. John W. Ellingwood, we best honor his name by imitating his virtues.

The report of the Treasurer was presented and accepted. The Society has collected from its friends in this city $166, which was forwarded to the National Society at Washington.

The following persons were elected officers for the ensuing year : FREEMAN CLARK, Esq., President; RODNEY HYDE, Treasurer; OTIS KIMBALL, Secretary.

After prayer by Rev. Mr. Whittlesey, of the Central Church, ad. journed.

MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.

MISSION AMONG THE ZULUS.

The Rev. Mr. Tyler, under date of Esidumbini, October 15, 1860, writes cheerfully and hopefully of the prospects in his field of labor:

"Our prospects were never better than at present. The heathen, so far as I know, are without exception friendly to us. Our congregations are as large and attentive as I could expect. Seven young men and boys have just come to reside with me for a year, whom I hope to benefit by industrial and moral training. Some of them have previously lived with us, and been taught to read. It is encouraging to see them coming of their own accord, and manifesting an eager desire for instruction and clothing. Three years ago, they were all engrossed in heathen follies and vices. It is our constant prayer that God will bring these precious souls into the Kingdom, and make them blessings to their countrymen.

A meeting was held on Monday evening last, in the Bible House, for the purpose of taking measures to promote the efforts of the African Colonization Society, some time since organized.

We understand that the Rev. H. H. Garnet, an intelligent colored clergyman of this city, has resolved to go to Abbeokuta, a town about seventy miles up the Niger, accompanied by several people of color, male and female, for the purpose of effecting an agricultural settlement there. Ten thousand dollars are needed to enable these emigrants to prosecute their mission.

The object in view seems feasible, hopeful, philanthropic, and Christian.— The movement of free negroes for Hayti and Africa may soon grow into large dimensions, and relieve an oppressed race (nowhere more oppressed than in the free States) of many disabilities which now exist, and which will exist so long as the colored race is in contact with the white.-Christian Intelligencer.

A REMARKABLE PASTOR OF A REMARKABLE PARISH. The November number of the Good Words contains two articles about a parish in Hanover, which, for its internal spiritual life, and the outward development of that life, is perhaps without a parallel in the world. Some of the statements made by the author of these communications are remarkable, of which we cite the following:

Though the population of the parish is small, yet there are eleven thousand communicants in the year; so that, with very rare exceptions, every adult must be a communicant, and every communicant a frequent participator. The services in the week are as well attended as on the Lord's day.

In 1853 the parish sent out to Eastern Africa eight ordained missionaries, and eight settlers, in a ship built and owned by the parish; the missionaries having been trained in the mission-house, in the parish, by a brother of pastor Harms. Twelve missionaries and about eighty settlers have since followed, and twentyone missionaries are to sail in 1861. Their good ship, the "Candace," has made five missionary voyages.

The Hermansburg Missionary Magazine, edited by Parson Harms, and printed in the parish, has a monthly circulation of fourteen thousand copies, and is a source of income to the mission, the profits, last year, being two thousand crowns. The Hermansburg Missionary Festival, held during two days in the month of June, in each year, is attended by six thousand persons; every house in the village being filled to its utmost capacity, and the students in the mission-house acting as stewards to the guests.

Some of the results of the mission are thus stated: It is only seven years since their missionaries first sailed for Africa; and in seven years this is the fruit of their labors. There are one hundred settlers spread over the eastern provinces at eight stations; there are dwelling-houses and workshops at every station; there are about forty thousand acres of land; fifty heathens have been baptized; their influence reaches from the Zulus, on the coast, to the Bechuanas in the center, and from the Orange river to Lake Ngami. At home they have the mission-house and farm, with forty-five persons living in them; the

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Refuge farm, with twenty persons; they have their own ship, and print their own books; and they continue with one accord in breaking of bread and in prayer. This is no common success; it is wonderful. If it be asked how a single village parish has been enabled to do what it has done, our answer should certainly be this: "The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." It was Pastor Harms custom to pray God, rather than to appeal to men, for help, and, in how remarkable a manner his prayers were answered, the narrative will show.-Vermont Chronicle.

IBIA. The Heathen Boy of Corisco.

Soon after the missionaries had settled on Corisco Island, off the coast of Africa, a man came from one of the neighboring islands, with his little boy, to to make a visit. Mr. Mackey, the missionary, noticing that he was a bright lad, asked him if he would not like to learn "book."

He said he would, and his father consented to leave him at the Mission House. This boy, who had been all his life accustomed to the low and degrading habits and customs of heathenism, was introduced at once into a new life. He readily received instruction, and appeared to be delighted with white man's ways. Ibia, for that was his name, behaved so well, so prudently, so circumspectly, that seldom did he receive a rebuke from his teachers. It pleased God to bless the labors of the missionaries, to hear their prayers, and this heathen boy was called to see himself as a sinner before God, and cry out for salvation. It was joyful tidings to the missionary, who had labored alone for a long time on that island, to hear that this heathen lad had found the Saviour. He now made more rapid progress in his studies, and behaved so well that all gave him praise. I have been there when the missionary would put quite a valuable trust in his keeping, and feel that he had nothing to fear.

"Ibia," he would say, "I would trust with untold gold." His path became brighter and brighter; and not long ago he was licensed, by the Presbytery of Corisco, to preach the gospel. In writing, lately, to a missionary now in America, he says:

"Great things have occurred in my personal history. I suppose you have heard that I have been licensed by the Presbytery of Corisco. May I prove to be to God a worthy workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing his word. I read the Bible in private daily. As to your question, whether I am redeemed from all iniquity, it is the only thing that I can write about now. Ah, sir, I am not redeemed from all iniquity literally, for I see a law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members, and when I would do good, evil is present with me. But I am redeemed from all iniquity in an evangelical sense. I believe I am a regenerated man, for I delight in the law of the Lord after the inward man. I serve the law of the Lord with my mind. I delight to do his will. God's commandments are not grievous to me, and I have renounced all hidden things of darkness and dishonesty. In a word, I have yielded to God an undivided heart. It is my endeavor and expectation to appear before the Most High God, blameless and spotless, not with my own legal righteousness, which is but filthy rags; but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. How can any one grow in grace who neglects or seldom reads the Bible? As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayst observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."

Speaking of the uncertainty of meeting with this missionary on earth, he says: "Let us anticipate with joy the meeting, or rather our meeting, in the New Jerusalem, where we shall join the redeemed in singing, Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.'

"I remain yours in the bonds of Christian love and fellow-pilgrim to the New Jerusalem.

IBIA."

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