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been in the past and are now rendering valuable 
service in winning souls to Christ. The inventory 
or invoice of this part of Sherbro Mission I can 
not give you. The value of souls saved in heav- 
en, or even those on earth saved from the terrible 
degradation of African ^heathenism, can not be 
represented by figures, such as appear upon or- 
dinary balance-sheets. I am quite certain that the 
assets of Sherbro Mission far exceed its liabilities. 
If this report is referred to various committees, as 
has been done on former occasions, let me sug- 
gest as a suitable one for this part of it those 
three great worthies who were present at Christ’s 
transfiguration, and who spake of his decease 
which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.” Moses 
as the representative of the ceremonial law, 
Elias of the prophetic dispensation, and Christ 
the sum and substance of the law and prophets, is 
about the only committee that I can now think 
of who could give a full and correct invoice of 
the moral and religious work of Sherbro Mission, 
or put a proper valuation on it. 
It is a source of deep regret that retrenchment 
was necessary. To have to send children from 
our mission-schools back to heathen surroundings 
and forego making ’much-needed improvements, 
and stop industrial operations, which we did, was 
