ed brethren, deserves a prominent place in the list
of those who have shed lustre upon the African race.

"At the period of Mr. Carey's death, the church of which he
was the pastor contained a hundred members, and was in a
highly flourishing condition. It was committed to the charge
of Collin Teage, who now returned from Sierra Leone, and of
Mr. Waring, one of its members, who had lately been ordained
a minister. The influences which had commenced with the
indefatigable founder of the mission continued to be felt
long after he had ceased to live. The church an Monrovia was
increased to two hundred member; and the power of the gospel
was manifested in other settlements of the Colonization
Society, and even among the rude natives of the coast, of
whom nearly a hundred were converted to Christianity, and
united with the several churches of the colony."[110]

We regret that statistics on Liberia are not as full as desirable; but
we have found enough to convince us that the cause of religion,
education, and republican government are in safe hands, and on a sure
foundation. There are now more than three thousand and eighteen
hundred children, seven hundred of whom are natives;[111] and in the
day-schools are gathered about two thousand bright and promising
pupils.

Many noble soldiers of the cross have fallen on this field, where a
desperate battle has been waged between darkness and light, heathenism
and religion, the wooden gods of men and the only true God who made
heaven and earth. Many have been mortally touched by the poisonous
breath of African fever, and, like the sainted Gilbert Haven, have
staggered back to home and friends to die. Few of the white teachers
have been able to remain on the field. During the first thirty years
of missionary effort in the field, the mortality among the white
missionaries was terrible. Up to 1850 the Episcopal Church had
employed twenty white teachers, but only three of them were left. The
rest died, or were driven home by the climate. Of nineteen
missionaries sent out by the Presbyterian Church up to 1850, nine
died, seven returned home, and but three remained. The Methodist
Church sent out thirteen white teachers: six died, six returned home,
and but one remained. Among the colored missionaries the mortality was
reduced to a minimum. Out of thirty-one in the employ of the Methodist
Church, only seven died natura