or years to come. It _need_ not be;
it _ought_ not to be; if Christian men and women do their duty,
it _will_ not be. Your committee therefore propose this
resolution:

_Resolved_, That we, the members of this association, will
individually urge upon the churches under our charge the duty of
making earnest and special efforts during the remainder of the
year to relieve the American Missionary Association from this
impending calamity.

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"GRAVE OF LOVEJOY"--CORRECTION.

EDITOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.--DEAR SIR: Did Brother Imes (June No., p.
168) misunderstand Father Johnson, or has the old man forgotten?
There was no "hasty burial by the river." The body remained all night
in the warehouse, was taken to the house the next day and buried from
the house in the cemetery. Johnson dug two graves there; the first in
a spot afterward taken for a road or walk, and the second where the
remains now lie. The memorial tablet was put there in good faith by
an editor of Alton, who greatly admired Lovejoy's defense of the
freedom of the press. But will there never be a more appropriate
monument? Is "Spare him now he is buried" all that is ever to be said
over the grave of Elijah P. Lovejoy?

H. L. HAMMOND.

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WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?

A momentous, an urgent, and a very hard question!

_Exclude them_, said the politicians, and close out thus forever the
problem their presence involves. This seems, at first sight, a simple
and easy, albeit a rather rough, answer. And so the Exclusion bill
became a law. But it is almost certain that there are more Chinese in
America to-day because of that law than there would have been without
it. They came in such great numbers after the law was enacted and
before it went into operation that (as I think) the decrease in
immigration since that date has not as yet offset that increase.

For nearly three years on our shore our King Canute has sat in his
royal chair forbidding the tide to rise. As long as ebb-tide lasts
his authority seems to be respected, and the problem of these
diurnal encroachments of the sea upon the land seems to be solved.
But when the time for flood-tide comes again, Canute will have to
move his chair, his mandates to the contrary notwithstanding.
Already, if rumor is to be believed, a profitable business is
conducted upon Puget Sound in