As a serious offset to these glorious results the commerce of nominally Christian nations is often poisonous.

Britain carries opium into China and India; America and other civilized nations carry rum into Africa.

The word of life goes in the cabin, and the worm of death goes in the hold of the same vessel! The sailors that have gone from nominally Christian countries to various ports have often been very far from acting as gospel missionaries.

It is not only for their own welfare, but that they may become representatives of Christianity that the noble "American Seamen's Friend Society" has been organized.

The work which that society has wrought under the vigorous leadership of Dr.Stitt entitles it to the generous support of all our churches.