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REMOVAL.

The Rooms of the American Missionary Association are now in the Bible
House, New York City. Correspondents will please address us accordingly.

Visitors will find our Rooms on the sixth floor of the Bible House,
corner Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue; entrance by elevator on Ninth
Street.

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DR. STORRS, ON THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

Not long since Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D., preached a sermon in his own
pulpit, presenting the claims of the American Missionary Association for
the annual collection in its behalf from the Church of the Pilgrims,
Brooklyn, N.Y. This sermon appeared in print in one of the daily papers,
and attracted the attention of a benevolent gentleman deeply interested in
the Christian education of the colored people, who was so impressed with
the great value of the address, that he has furnished the Association with
the means to print a large edition for general circulation. This we have
done, and we presume that already, many of our readers have had the
opportunity of reading this eminently wise and timely utterance on one of
America's greatest problems. Should any one desire an extra copy, we will
gladly furnish it on application.

Although the discourse has had large circulation, we cannot resist the
temptation to extract a few of its forcible utterances on some very
important points.

Permanent popular liberties have their only sure foundation in
sound moral conditions practically universal. We must secure
these among those to whom we have given the ballot, and who are
to be henceforth citizens with ourselves. Otherwise, we are
building our splendid political house on the edges of the
pestilential swamp from which fatal miasmatic odors are rising
all the time. Yes, we are building our house on piles driven into
the thick ooze and mud of the pestilential swamp itself. We are
building our cities, which we think are so splendid, and which
are so in fact, as men built Herculaneum and Pompeii, on a shore
which ever and anon trembled with earthquake, over which was hung
the black flag of Vesuvius, and down upon which rolled, in time,
the lava floods that burned and buried them.

We have got to meet this immense problem, which is not far off,
but right at hand; which is not a problem of theory, or of
distant history, but of practice and fact; and which concerns
no