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now preach in from seventy or eighty towns. 
This is done by sending out as itinerants a num- 
ber of native converts and the mechanics which 
we employ. Our blacksmith, carpenter, tailor, 
and all are school-teachers — are selected with ref- 
erence to this. Our day-schools are in operation 
only four days in the week, giving Saturday, 
Sunday, and Monday to teachers and pupils, such 
as can be used, to itinerating. It will also be 
seen that we now have about one hundred chil- 
dren in the industrial departments. A consid- 
erable number of these in the past have become 
professors of religion, and we hope to see, in time 
to come, a large per cent of them become Chris- 
tians. From the ranks of these boys we expect 
to procure native helpers, who, as school-teachers, 
itinerants, mechanics, farmers, and boatmen, will 
render us valuable service in time to come. 
The land we have at each of the regular sta- 
tions will enable us to settle them on lots of from 
five to ten acres each, and thus keep them under 
Christian influence and from living in heathen 
towns. 
One of the indispensable things to do to save 
Africa is to teach her people to develop the re- 
sources of that country and thereby obtain the 
means to procure the things necessary to live civ- 
ilized Christian lives. Our farming there has al- 
