America can be prepared for it. They can endure the climate, find
ready access to the hearts of the people, and be eminently successful
in preaching the Gospel. They should have the best training for the
purpose, and great care should be exercised in selecting and sending
forth only those of good education, mature character, sound judgment
and unquestioned piety.

2. America owes it as a debt to them and to Africa that they be
furnished with the means for this training. The guilt of man-stealing
and of slavery can have no better atonement than by sending back to
Africa the sons of those stolen from those benighted shores, who
shall bring with them the light and blessing of civilization and
Christianity. England, too, having had a share in introducing slavery
into America, should take its share in making this atonement.

3. The colored people of America should be aroused to this
providential call to this high mission in behalf of their fatherland.
We do not question nor minify their great duty and destiny in
America. Their warm affections, their easily kindled zeal, their gift
of song and eloquence, will yet add an enriching pathos to our piety,
and a wider range to our patriotism. But this call to Africa, while
not interfering with duty here, will broaden their vision and deepen
their piety. There will be a grand uplift to them in grasping and
endeavoring to realize this great work. It will raise them above
petty ambitions, it will give a practical turn to their religious
enthusiasm, and bring them into closer sympathy with Jesus Christ.
They have been in fellowship with Him in suffering, they may now be
co-workers with Him in redemption.

But Africa, so degraded! Why should her sons go back to her? The Scot