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Mission Monographs. 16„alhonour, more energetic efforts shouldbe made these changes which are always pos.3ible in anto suppress this diabolical traffic. Tnere can be unsettled country, drin''should be introducedno excuse for its continuance, and it is a blot among the native population there, our misaionon Chriatian oivilization.'may be wrecked, and the labor of years whollyOne of the most pathetic circumstances con- lost.oeoted with the whole subjeot is to be found It is earnestly to be hoped that measuresin the pitiful appeals which come to us from will speedily be taken to deal praotioally withthe natives themselves. Sensible of thei'" the faots now set forth. There is no lack ofweakness, they have appealed again and again facts to prove the greatness ofthe scandal; theto the Christian people of this country »nd diffioulty is to get the citizens of this country,the Governments of Europe, to protect them the men in power in the State, and even thefrom a temptation they feel powerless to resist- Christian people in our Churches, to look themQiotations from such appeals could be given in the face. I trust therefore that the Churchto a large extent. But space will not permit- of Scotland will take her place among the" There has broken out," Mr. Waller tells usj other branches of the Christian Church, and"not only in one or two, but in several dense" throw herself heartily into a cause with whiohly populated tracts of Africa, an intense desire is so closely bound up the success of her Mistoshake off the drunkenness which has arisen sions and the progress of the cause of Christ.as a contact with civilisation.'' " Why," askspraYING BY NAME.the Rev. Mr. Johnson, the able native pastorot Lagos (into which small island, with a pop- Praying for our missionaries by name isulation of 37,000, Europe imports 1,231,302 another means which we would suggest forgallons of spirits, l,2(i5,160 gallons of which drawing out our interest toward the foreignare " trade rum" and ''trade gin," described field. Wholesale intercession has always aabove)—" why should European proximity to dangerous tendency. Prayers which are soAfriia be Africa's ruin ?" Archdeacon Farrar, inclusive tbat they cease to be incisive, whichin a powerfully written article in the Contem take in so many interests that they take holdporary Beview (now reprinted in pamphlet of none, who has not been wearied at such cornform),tells us that in 1883 the natives of the prehensively feeble intercession 1 OrthodoxDiamond Fields implored the Cape Parliament Christians have as muoh need to be on theirto have public-houses removed from them for guard against platitudinarianism as againsta distance of six miles, and that their petition laritudlnarianism. Evangelical vagueness ofwasrefused. Strange that theory of weakness desire and petition is a weariness to God andand helplessness should 1 e so shamefully dis t j men, and we may almost approve the bluntregarded ; and that nationa that stand in the irreverence of an evangelist who impatientlyforefront of civilisation and udssionary effort broke in upon the vague and aimless prayer ofshould turn away from such appeals, and force a Chrisrian man with the exclamarion," Do asknpon unwilling people that which is working God tor something, brother 1" Now instead oftheir complete destruction ! prayiug for the Lore's blessing upon our mis-Hitherto, our own special mission field at sion fields, and upon our missionary brethrenBlantyre has escaped the blighting curse that iu gmer&\, let us gst a list of their names, andhas fallen on other parts of Africa. But we take some one of them before the throne ofshould reaUse the fact that if, through any of God each d.y. Let us make ourselves so far