IN WESTERN AFRICA. ‘ 329 
no lossp but a profit, and yet all the advantages 
we now have by the weekly trips she makes 
between the two points named. 
The Early Dawn 'printing-office^ with the $150 
paid, as you directed four years ago, by the agent 
of the Printing Establishment, has met all ex- 
penses. The paper has a circulation of about 
two hundred, and with the job-work done meets 
expenses 'of publication, and is rendering our 
mission-work valuable service. All in all, the 
outlook is good in the future in that dark land, if 
we can give our work reasonable support there. 
With the 1,526 members we have, and prospect 
good to greatly increase the number, and that 
Africa is now the great object of attraction, we 
ought to push to complete triumph the victories 
obtained. God has greatly honored us in direct- 
ing us to assail heathenism in one of its greatest 
strongholds, and rout the enemy. The unhealth- 
ioess of the climate, the deep degradation of the 
people, and the great hinderances to mission- 
success growing out of the rum and slave traffic 
and other evils there, make it one of the most dif- 
ficult fields in the world. The question remains 
to be answered, Will we as a church honor our- 
selves by properly caring for this mission? 
