gifts of the benevolent in ways that shall not be unwise or
irresponsible. As these circulars and letters of appeal are often
referred by those who receive them to the Secretaries, it is but their
duty to say that all funds diverted from our treasury to schools or
churches in the South, under no watch and care, would without doubt go
further and help the great work more to which the A.M.A. is consecrated,
if they should be sent through the channel which the churches have
ordained, and which has not only this justification for its existence
and work, but also the justification of long experience and success.

If the friends of the American Missionary Association, upon receiving
appeals from colored pastors or people in the South, or from independent
schools, would remember _that their own ordained agency_ can open and
supervise as many schools and churches as they will make possible with
their contributions, no doubt less money would be diverted and far
greater efficiency secured. Schools in the North without supervision or
superintendence, are usually inferior. Much more are these
irresponsible, unadvised and independent schools in the South.

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SHALL CHRIST OR MOHAMMED WIN AFRICA?

Ultimately Christ will, as we know by the sure word of prophecy;
immediately, Mohammed gains most rapidly, as present facts seem to
indicate. The rapid strides of Mohammedanism in Africa have been noticed
by nearly all recent explorers and travelers, but the full statement of
the fact has been brought forth more vividly in a remarkable book
written by a remarkable man. The book is entitled, "_Christianity, Islam
and the Negro Race_." The author is Edward W. Blyden, LL.D., of whom it