thus expresses itself to us: "We are happy to write this letter to you in a
conglomerate manner."

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THE EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE A.M.A.

BY REV. FORREST F. EMERSON.


The report of the Executive Committee on educational work in the South,
confirms the conviction which must have impressed itself on many minds,
that the Association is a divinely-appointed agency for carrying forward
a work delegated to us as a _nation_. God calls nations as he calls men,
and consecrates them to a special work. Rome had a call, and fulfilled
it, under the Divine Providence, and that call was to work out the idea,
and demonstrate the necessity, of government, and to cultivate in the
minds of men everywhere regard for the authority of law; Greece had her
mission, and it was to teach the value of individual culture, both
physical and intellectual; the people of Israel had their call to teach
the doctrine of God, of his moral government, and of the eternal nature
of moral law; and this Christian nation has its divine call, and that
call arises from the peculiar relation which it sustains to the other
races and nations of the earth.

For a long time it seemed as if this land was to be given exclusively to
the English race. The Dutch who settled here were assimilated and
absorbed; the Spaniards and Portuguese found a congenial clime in South
America; the French, by the progress of events, were prevented from
gaining a foothold in New England, and with the sale of so-called