loves the hills and the glens whence his family came; the German
never forgets the Fatherland; but what is there to awaken the love of
the Negro for Africa? Gen. Garfield was born in a humble home, and
went thence as a canal driver, but when he became President of the
United States he did not despise that humble home, nor the mother
that bore him, lowly as both were, but at his inauguration he had his
mother placed in an honored seat on the platform, and his first act
after taking the oath of office was to step over, before that vast
assembly, and kiss that mother.

American descendant of Africa! The home of your fathers is humble and
degraded, and you are elevated and refined. Show that you are really
great and Christlike by giving the redeeming kiss to Africa!

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THE HOPEFULNESS OF INDIAN MISSIONS, AS SEEN IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY.

BY REV. A.F. BEARD, D.D.

The contemplation of the past sometimes weakens the energies for
action in the present. But when the present is a consequence of the
past, we can scarcely do our work rightly if we neglect the lessons
of experience.

The history of missions among our Indian tribes has lessons in it
which may be wisely heeded.

When the first settlers of this country left their ships, which had
been freighted with the destinies of a continent, and faced the