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PREFACE. 
gard for the moral rights of other societies, and in this case 
too has abstained from the least appearance of an attempt' 
to take possession of territory which has been already 
occupied by the English Wesleyan and Basel Societies. 
May this noble example be followed by Christians 
throughout England, and may they show by the warm sup- 
port accorded to this new mission (which many of them feel 
to be a national duty), that they attach far more importance 
to the extension of Christ's kingdom than to the spread of 
any one denomination. May the following pages sound, 
in their artless but touching tale, the voice of the Lord, 
knocking at the heart's door of Christian England, and 
asking help for benighted Ashantee. If there be any one 
who can read a journal such as this, without becoming a 
friend and supporter of missions to the heathen, let him 
earnestly ask himself the question whether one who has 
no compassion for the sufferings of a Christlecs humanity, 
can have any true love to the Lord whom these sufferings 
brought down to take our flesh. 
" Behold I have set before thee an open door, and no 
man can shut it " (Rev. iii. 8). Let us not be blind to the 
truth in the present case. Inwards, beyond Ashantee, 
and indeed partly in Ashantee itself, the false prophet is at 
work, and more of the tribes of inner Africa are constantly 
being subdued to his creed. This open door may soon be 
closed, if we neglect to hear God's message, and do not 
hasten to set up in those regions the standard of the True 
Prophet. 
THEODORE CHRISTLEIB, D.D., Ph. D. 
Professor of Theology and University Preacher. 
Bonn, Prussia, December 20tli, 1874. 
