He writes as a student; I write as one on the spot, and urgently reiterate his words.

“THE MOST URGENT WORK OF THE CHURCH.”

‘“T write from Lokoja. From the piazza on which I am sitting I look down upon the graves of John Robinson, Wilmot Brooke, and Charles Watney. They counted not their lives dear unto them. They laboured and prayed at the threshold, and laid down their lives, confidently believing that the armies of the Lorp would press onward over their graves. What was denied to them is granted to us. We may enter in. Sir F. Lugard has recently written very kindly of the work, and is quite prepared fo support our efforts. . ...' Pray that the Church of Christ may prove worthy of her trust.”

‘There are times,’’ writes Canon Sell in his plea for Nigeria, ‘‘ when it is very difficult to balance the competing claims of various parts of the mission field. I see no difficulty now. . . . Certain parts of Africa form now, in military language, the objective; and are the strategical positions of the great mission feld=. . . Parts. of Africa in which the Moslem advance is imminent have for the present a pre-eminent claim. The absorption of Pagan races into Islam is so rapid and continuous that in a few years’ time some may be lost to us.

“J believe the Church has very little conception of the real state of the case. The call to immediate and more eared operations is loud and clear. The conscience of the Church needs rousing to the very serious condition of affairs. For many centuries it utterly neglected the Mohammedans.

It is not, however, too late to save some of the as yet unoccupied territory. Soon it will be sO,” <i