The Colony of Lagos 
population. Among the refugees, we had some 
very interesting converts who have since be¬ 
come successful missionaries to their people. 
Among these is Moses Ladejo Stone who was 
one of the children at the Abeokuta orphanage 
previously mentioned. He now has charge of 
the Baptist station at Lagos and is an able 
preacher and consecrated Christian. 
The English, after some bloody conflicts with 
the Egbars and other Yorubans, have obtained 
political control of this part of Africa, establish¬ 
ing a kind of autonomy except in the case of 
Abeokuta. That town is still independent 
through treaty rights, but doubtless will not re¬ 
main so very long. This supremacy of the Eng¬ 
lish gives to the missionaries of that nation, 
especially the clergy of the Church of England, 
a great advantage over those of America; but 
the work of the missionaries of the Southern 
Baptist Convention has been attended by marked 
success. For Rev. C. E. Smith and Rev. W. T. 
Lumbley and their native co-laborers and any 
others who may yet follow them, we hope our 
Christian readers will often think to pray. 
This part of Africa being now “pacified,” 
foreign enterprise and capital will soon open it 
up to commerce. The English have already corn- 
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