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SHERBRO MISSION. 
of whatever race or color. Here they might have 
tarried and found plenty of work to do, but they 
were unwilling to build another man’s foundation. 
Hence they determined to go out into some dark- 
er place and hold forth the lamp of life. The 
field was very large. It would not do for all the 
laborers, however pleasant to themselves, to con- 
gregate in Freetown. 
They now sailed down the coast a distance of 
one hundred and twenty miles, to the south part 
of Sherbro Island, and took lodging at Good 
Hope Station, a mission planted and manned by 
the American Missionary Association. To this 
association and their missionaries in Africa our 
missionaries and our missionary society, from 
first to last, are under many obligations. They 
have shown us numerous and marked favors. 
They gave our first missoinaries letters of intro- 
duction and commendation to their own mis- 
sionaries in Africa. To. the Rev. Geo. Thomp- 
son and others in charge of Mendi Mission in 
Africa, Mr. Whipple, the corresponding secre- 
tary of the association, wrote, among other good 
and kind and cheering words: 
^Tn relation to all the questions of church- 
polity we understand them to be so catholic 
in spirit that they can cordially labor, and 
without any disposition to proselyte, in connec- 
