Heaven on the side of Africa. any one who has the heart of a man, can be indifferent to the object; much less how any Christian can oppose.' Mr. L. after a moment's pause, here repeated those lines from Pierpont, "Hear'st thou, O God, those chains, By Christian's wrought? Them who those chains have worn, Christians have hither borne, Christians have bought!" 'God does hear,' Mr. L. continued, and already does he who has said " Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God," see her beginning to stretch out her hands, and implore his blessing. She lifts one hand to heaven and prays; with the other she beckons her children to come up from their house of bondage. If we awake to our duty, heaven will be with us; if we will hold back or resist, we may still be assured that God is with Africa. Her cause is the cause of justice, of religion, of humanity. God will favor it, and if we oppose, he may do it at our cost. It is true, the Almighty has not broken the silence of the heavens, to speak in favor of Africa's cause, and of the colonization enterprise; but his approbation has not been withheld. Conducted with reference to his will and glory, with regard to his authority, having also the moral and religious good, as well as the civil and political elevation of the colonists in view, God will still favor the cause. There can be no reasonable doubt that the colonization enterprise is approved by him. As my greatly esteemed friend, the Rev. Dr. Beecher said, the other day, in his colonization address at Pittsburgh, "I do not think that a society, heaven-moved as this society was, by such wisdom as Samuel J. Mills was blessed with, and by such wisdom as he commanded into its service, moved Our obligations as a Christian country. on by such faith and prayer, and so blessed of heaven, as this has been in its past labors, and still is, could have been born by wisdom from beneath. As the natives who chased Captain Wilson, the commander of the Duff, until they saw him plunge into a stream so full of alligators that if a man did but put his finger in the water it would be bitten off, and who supposed when they saw it, that they need do no more, but upon beholding him emerging and climbing up the bank on the other side, cried, Don't fire, he is God's man:' so I would say of this society, it is God's Society. In its commencement it was his; in its progress it has been his; and the station it now occupies in the midst of all the difficulties which have grown out of inexperience, and the peculiar nature of the subject, shows it to be his; and so does its success in Africa." 'It appears to me,' said Caroline, that the favor of heaven towards the colonies, and the cause of colonization, is very apparent; and I wonder that any should dare oppose, lest, haply, they "be found fighting against God." And then the fact that so many good and wise men who can be influenced on this subject by no sinister motives, some of whom were once unfavorable to colonization, but on examination have changed their minds, are among the warm friends and selfdenying promoters of colonization, is to my mind evidence that is almost "Confirmation strong As holy writ." A Madison, a Monroe, a Carroll, Judge Washington, our greatly venerated and now lamented good Bishop White, Robert Ralston, John Marshall, William Wirt, Fitzhugh, Finley, Evarts, Cornelius, Wisner, sainted spirits now in heaven with Ashmun, and Mills, and Carey, and Randall, and Cox, and Anderson, and others who died in the service A great and worthy enterprise. of Africa; what a noble list might we write of its friends from the catalogue of the lamented dead, whose remem brance is blessed! And then the living-what an array of the names of the great and the good come up before the mind!' 'Many prayers ascend to heaven,' said Mr. L., 'in behalf of the colonization enterprise. It is a cause dear to many a pious heart.' CONVERSATION XXIX. "In vain ye limit mind's unwearied spring: Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep?"-Campbell. 'GOOD MORNING, my children.' 'Good morning, Pa,' said Henry. 6 'Good morning, Pa,' said Caroline. I have been thinking much of Africa and Colonization, of America and our duty,' said Caroline; and the more I contemplate it, the more the work in which the Colonization Society is engaged, appears so noble and godlike, that I should think it would be considered by all as worthy of the noblest energies of our nature-worthy the efforts and prayers of every patriot and Christian in our land.' 'We have reason to hope that the time is not far distant,' said Mr. L., 'when the benevolent and pious of our land will all engage in this work, regarding Africa, more than we have hitherto done, as a wide field for missionary enterprise, where our most ardent wishes and untiring efforts should be directed. Every passing year, the condition and claims of Africa's claims beginning to be acknowledged. Africa are more and better understood, and the subject is taking deeper and deeper hold on the honor, the justice, the patriotic and Christian sympathies of our highly favored. country. The work will be done the day. and I love to anticipate "Where barb'rous hordes on Scythian mountains roam, And as the slave departs, the man return." Yes, it will be done, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. It will be done-and Africa, enlightened, regenerated, blessed, will remember the Colonization Society as her MOSES, which led her up from bondage. Forgetting her wrongs, obliterating from her mind the dark history of all her griefs, and remembering only the blessings received, she will look to this happy land, and say, breathing the sweet spirit of the gospel of Christ, "There are our Benefactors.", 'I trust, Pa, the vision will be fulfilled. I love to think of Africa as a field of missionary enterprise. It is so extensive, and gives promise of such rich blessings.' 'As a missionary field,' said Mr. L., 'it is limited only by the confines of one of the largest quarters of the habitable globe. Other missionary operations, although successful to a considerable degree, have not had a success corresponding in extent with the piety and benevolence of their aim, or with the amount of means which have been applied. Great advantages are united in the colonization enterprise. "Every emigrant to Africa is a missionary going forth with his credentials, in the holy cause of civilization and religion and Africa a missionary field. free institutions, and the colonies which we establish will be so many points from which the beams of Christianity and civilization will radiate on all that empire of ignorance and sin. These influences must be poured in from the western coast. The northern boundary is within the dominion of the false Prophet, and no light is to be expected from that direction. If we look towards its eastern border, we look to the region and shadow of death." Colonization deviates from the practice of other missionary institutions, and employs as agents the very brethren of the people sought to be converted. 66 "It proposes to send, not one or two pious men into a foreign land, among a different and perhaps suspicious race, of another complexion; but to transport annually, for an indefinite number of years, hundreds and thousands of missionaries, of the descendants of Africa herself, with the same interests, sympathies, and constitutions of the natives. This colony of missionaries is to operate not alone by the preaching of the gospel, but also by works of ocular demonstration. It will open forests, build towns, erect temples of worship, and practically exhibit to the sons of Africa the beautiful moral spectacle and the superior advantages of our own religious and social systems." Its means are simple; its end is grand and magnificent. Christianity will beautify Africa, and civilization will enlighten it. The Mahometans of the North will feel the influence; the Pagans who worship in her forests and groves, will be saved; Abyssinia, now lighted by a few rays of Christian light, will feel the full shining of the Sun of righteousness; idols will fall; human blood will no more be poured from victims sacrificed; the slave-ship will be driven from the coast; and Africa will feel a return of more than Egyptian greatnessmore than Carthagenian glory.* Touching the advantages for prosecuting this great work in Africa, the Circular of the New York Ladies' Society remarks; "access to her coast is |