"  To  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  has  been  intrusted  the  destinies  of  the
world,  during  its  pioneer  period  of  struggle  and  conflict.  To  that
mission  its  stem,  inflexible,  energetic  elements  were  well  adapted ;
but,  as  a  Christian,  I  look  for  another  era  to  arise.  On  its  borders  I
trust  we  stand  ;  and  the  throes  that  now  convulse  the  nations  are,
to  my  hope,  but  the  birth-pangs  of  an  hour  of  universal  peace  and
brotherhood.
"  I  trust  that  the  development  of  Africa  is  to  be  essentially  a
Christian  one.  If  not  a  dominant  and  commanding  race,  they  are,
at  least,  an  affectionate,  magnanimous,  and  forgiving  one.  Having
been  called  in  the  furnace  of  injustice  and  oppression,  they  have
need  to  bind  closer  to  their  hearts  that  sublime  doctrine  of  love  and
forgiveness,  through  which  alone  they  are  to  conquer,  which  it  is  to
De  their  mission  to  spread  over  the  continent  of  Africa.
«  In  myself,  I  confess,  I  am  feeble  for  this,  —full  half  the  blood
in  my  veins  is  the  hot  and  hasty  Saxon  ;  but  I  have  an  eloquent
preacher  of  the  Gospel  ever  by  my  side,  in  the  person  of  my  beauti-
ful wife.  When  I  wander,  her  gentler  spirit  ever  restores  me,  and
keeps  before  my  eyes  the  Christian  calling  and  mission  of  our  race.
