nterprises.

Now we think that the Son of Man, assailed by the mob in the Garden and
crucified on Calvary that He might save the world, was more exalted, and
revealed His divine character more distinctly, than when He was
surrounded by the hosannas of the thoughtless and fickle mob. So, in
like manner and at a humble distance, Arthur Tappan reached his highest
point of honor as a patriotic Christian man when, for the sake of the
poor and downtrodden slaves, he was willing to bear reproach and
jeopardize his life in their behalf.

Mr. Tappan and his associates, fifty years ago, founded the American
Missionary Association amid the obloquy and danger that surrounded
anti-slavery people in that day; and now, as the Association is
rejoicing in its successful and honored work in this its Jubilee year,
we take pleasure in its behalf in testifying to the courage and
self-sacrificing labors of its founders.

_From The Independent._

THE PRESENT NEED OF THE INDIANS.

BY MISS ANNA L. DAWES.

It would appear that there was a certain definite loss to the cause of
Christianity among the Indians when that work ceased to be called
Foreign Missions, and became Home Missions. In the face of much
opposition and many sneers since the day it first discovered its
"marching orders," the Church has never ceased to believe it to be its
duty to go out into all the world and preach the gospel, and
persecution, neglect, or starvation have only served to intensify its
zeal. It _must_ preach the gospel to the heathen. But in regard to Home
Missions the Church has felt that it _may_ preach the gospel to
neighbors, not that it _must_--that it is a good and desirable thing to
do, but by no means an inexorable duty. If the Indians had remained
foreign heathen, we might hope for a Students' Volunteer movement, for
an Inland Mission, for a zeal beyond wisdom which even sets forth to
preach the gospel in the midst of war. The Indians are as pagan as the
Japanese or the Hindus, for instance: their redemption is as great a
necessity as the redemption of the Chinese. Their chiefs plead for help
and teachers in no less touching fashion than do South African kings.
But those fill us with missionary zeal. We cry unto heaven for money and
opportunity to go over seas to convert those; but these, the heathen in
our very midst, most of us neither see nor hear. Can it be because there
is neither romance nor mystery about these others? The test of the
realit