5.--Why these arguments to show "how not to do it," when to do it would
be so simple and so evidently Christian?

_N.Y. Independent._

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A MID-SUMMER LEAF OF THE A.M.A. CATECHISM.

Q. _When are Home Missions properly so called?_

A. When they are ordained to save the unevangelized people of the land
in which they dwell.

Q. _When are missions properly called Foreign Missions?_

A. When they are missions to foreigners in a foreign country.

Q. _Are missions among the Indians in this country, Foreign Missions?_

A. They are not, though the Indians have been treated as foreigners,
which has been the source of great wrongs and many sorrows.

Q. _Are missions to the Chinese in this country, Foreign Missions?_

A. They are not, though the Chinese are refused the privileges accorded
other foreigners. The missions of the A.M.A. on the Pacific Coast are
most fruitful and hopeful, and, since these foreigners return to China,
there is an interblending of Home and Foreign Missions here, that is
full of promise.

Q. _Are the missions of the A.M.A. in the South, Foreign Missions?_

A. They are not, though they have been successful in exciting interest
for Africa among the students of their schools. Some of these are now
foreign missionaries; others are preparing to go; but the missions of
the A.M.A. in the broadest sense are Home Missions, for they minister to
white and black as to citizens of a common country, who alike need the
Gospel. The A.M.A. is planting white churches (so called) every year,
and has added several this year, though none of them would refuse
membership to a man because he is black, and is planting colored
churches (so called), none of which should be excluded from State
Associations merely because of color.

Q. _Should the missions of the A.M.A. be called Foreign Missions because
its schools and churches cannot win the co-operation of the Christians
among whom they live?_

A. They did not at once win the co-operation of Christians among whom
they went, but confidence has been growing with the years until the
cases are exceptional where they do not have the co-operation of
enlightened and broad-minded Christians. In most cases, the schools and
churches of the A.M.A. have won both confidence and gratitude throughout
the South. Southern men are among the trustees of its institutions, and
everywhere its Field Superintendents and Secretaries are greeted wit