ssionary Association has frequently
urged, and which it had begun to exemplify by sending colored
missionaries to Western Africa. The experiment was in many respects
satisfactory, but we realized that a longer training and a more thorough
maturing of character were needed in those who had just emerged from the
darkness and limitations of slavery. But what greater hope can there be
for Africa than in the training of these millions, so apt in learning,
so earnestly religious, and so well qualified to meet as brothers and
friends their kindred in the Dark Continent! Here is a work for American
Christians, full of promise of a glorious harvest.

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THE VERNACULAR IN INDIAN SCHOOLS.

After some considerable delay, Commissioner Atkins has issued revised
Regulations in regard to the teaching of Indian languages in schools.
That our readers may have them in distinct form we append them:

"1. No text books in the vernacular will be allowed in any school
where children are placed under contract, or where the Government
contributes, in any manner whatever, to the support of the school;
no oral instruction in the vernacular will be allowed at such
schools. The entire curriculum must be in the English language.

"2. The vernacular may be used in missionary schools only for oral
instruction in morals and religion, where it is deemed to be an
auxiliary to the English language in conveying such instruction.

"3. No person other than a native Indian teacher will be permitted
to teach in any Indian vernacular, and these native teachers will
only be allowed in schools not supported in whole or in part by the
Government, at remote points, where there are no Government or
contract schools where the English language is taught. These
schools under native teachers only, are allowed to teach in the
vernacular with a view of reaching those Indians who cannot have
the advantages of instruction in English, and they must give way to
the English-teaching schools as soon as they are established where
the Indians can have access to them."

In response to a special application for authority to instruct a class
of theological students in the vernacular, at the Santee School, the
Commissioner says:

"There is no objection to your educating a limited number of
Indians in the vernacular, as missionaries, in some