AFRICA
Letter from brother Day
We have received a letter from brother Day, part of which
we publish, as it presents distinct matters of information, such as
our readers will be happy to leam. Our grateful thanks are due to
God for his prospering smile on our endeavors on the coast. Under
date of March 16, brother Day writes form Bexley:
I have just received intelligence of the vessel at anchor,
which will leave to-morrow for an indirect voyage to America, and
seize this moment to drop a line to you. And first, as the affairs of
the mission I presume are uppermost in your mind, as in my own, I
begin with its details and prospects. Having raised the
expectations of the people at Louisiana, of a school to be sustained
by us, I employed a young man, whose name is Johnson, and sent
him there, instructing him to take all the natives he can in school,
without boarding them, and have requested brother James to take
the superintendence. At that place is a prosperous little church,
organized by brother James.
A teacher here and there, judiciously located, is but to aid
in some future day to missionary labor. By sending a missionary
to such settlements, he may kindle up a light which may beat far
back the brooding darkness, and in the ultimate result may
accomplish more good than in any other way. Brother James has
been very successful; has baptized fifty-one; has a school in a most
flourishing condition; is gaining the confidence of the natives and
colonists, and is likely to accomplish great good. As soon as
circumstances will admit, I wish bro. James employed in preaching
the whole of his time to natives and colonists; at present there must
be some expense in building, such as, the expense of assistant must
be avoided. The mission in New Virginia is flourishing. I have
been solicited in behalf of brother Richardson, and we agreed to
allow him $100, to assist brother James in supplying the destitute
churches; we have also consented to appropriate $50 to help the
church at Monrovia.
Brother Davis has been regularly preaching to the natives
this year. I am told they are pleased with him. Brother Pervis does
what he can in the way of preaching to the natives — they like him
well. Brother Elkins will go as soon as his health will admit, to
