"You will be able to believe that my time is pretty fully occupied. I
rejoice that I am able to be here, for I am never so happy as when I am
engaged in this beloved work."

Is not here a splendid field for missionary work for the King's
Daughters throughout the land? Why cannot the loyal daughters of the
King, at the North, support such missionaries as this in their
self-sacrificing work for the down-trodden daughters of this same Divine
King in the South?

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PROTESTANT AND PAPIST: AN OBJECT-LESSON.

In the communication below, an esteemed friend finds in our
Annual Meeting at Providence an object-lesson in the Christian
recognition of the colored man, which he very properly sets over
against a like example in the convention of colored Roman
Catholics recently held in Washington, D.C. Our friend is right.
The American Missionary Association stands square on that
subject. We only wish that everybody else, even at the North,
stood with us on that plank of our platform.

"In THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY for February, 1889, I read extracts and
notices from Catholic sources with regard to the universality of that
church organization that 'knows neither North, South, East or West, that
knows neither Jew nor Gentile, Greek, Barbarian nor Scythian,' and
emphasizing the fact that a colored priest had celebrated mass in