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for everything English was so strong. TheQueen and Prime Minister have just granted acharter to an English company to found a bankin Madagascar, and I fear ihat all ihe MalagasyCustom Houses on ihe coast are to be put intothe hands of BngUshmen." Surely we wUl repaysuch trust and love with earnest prayers for thespiritual prosperity of thai remarkable people.—Rev. John Smith in Missionary Becord.AT HOME.In connection with the proposal of our churchto enter upon missionary operations among iheIndians, the following extract from the address ofan Indian wiU be read with interest :There can no longer be a question as to iheultimate civiUzation of the red man. To reachthis,end is only a matter of time and patient missionaryeffort. The Indian is capable of a higherachievement than is ordinarily predicted of him.Por illustration of this you have only to considerthe prosperous condition of the five nations ofthe Indian Territory. Go among the Cherokees,Choctaws, and others in that territory, and youwiU be received wiih more kindness and hospitalitythan by many of your own people. And youwill recognize in many of them ihat moraUty andrefinement which are characteristic of an enlightenedpeople. W e have well-organized governmentsofour own; good systems of education nnderour own management; and we are self-supporting.W e live in good houses, cultivatefarms, raise stock, educate our children, dress respectably,ask only not to be interfered with inour legal rights.Nor is this all thai mission work has accomplishedfor ihe Indians. It has done more forthe elevation of the Indian race than all otheragencies combined. Under ihe elevating influenceof the Gospel of Ohrist, Indians will accom-Value all Men. 161plish more in the way of individual and naiionalimprovement than they could under any otherpower. Not only does it make them a law-abiding,peaceable and industrious people, but it alsoqualifies them for the nobler spheres of human life.The few white missionavies now laboring in theIndian Territory are doing immense good. Theyare organizing new churches and Sunday-schools;instituting more effective methods of Christianwork; and educating the people for the serviceof Jesus Christ. .But, whUe the foUowers of Chvist in the fivenations " sivive togetbev fov the faith of the Gospel,"endeavoring to become more enlightenedand self-supporting, they are stirred by the" Macedonian cry" of the brethren of the plainsin the western part of the tevvitovy, " come overand help us." Here again we are confrontedwiih pressing needs. These Indians of the plainsare uncivilized. They are in a state of comparativeheathenism. Among them the war song maystill be heard. The iaces of some are still ornamentedwith paint, and their hair with eaglefeathers. And the ancient symbolisms of warstill linger in their memories. Moreover, thatholy Day which God has sanctified unto manpasses by unobserved; and thai " name which isabove every name " is comparatively unknown toihem. Notwithstanding all this, these tribes arein the main peaceable and friendly, and anxiousto know what is right.I appeal to you as Christian people not to ignoreour interests. You have occupied this vastland, and surrounded ns on every hand with thebeauty and grandeur of civiUzation and Christ'ianity, and we feel that in your might and gloryit is your duty to help the weak and ill-treated inyour midst to a reaUzation of the irue import ofhuman existence.YALUE ALL MEN.chances. Permit noi ihe immortal to be t-wisied,at the very starting of iis growth for ihe want ofYalue the Young. How precious ihese germssuch protection as it is in your power io afford.are 1 These spring-buds are lovely io look upon By faUing practically to Value Utile ones ai theirbut their worth is greater ihan their beauty. An real worth we boih suffer and infUct an incalculableinjury. They wUl be ihe men and womenimmortal life is opening ihere; heed it weU.Proprietors rear strong fences round young trees, of ihe generation when we become chUdren again,while they leave aged forests to take iheir If ihey grow crooked for the want of onr care to-It^r.