Home Missionaries Needed.
AT the close of a recent trial in Washington, United States District Attorney Corkhill made the following remarks:— “I cannot allow this occasion to pass without calling attention to the remarkable exhibition of the want of character of the witnesses, both for the Government and the defense. In this case, and in one tried a few weeks ago of similar character, almost one hundred witnesses were examined, and so much perjury and utter disregard of the obligations of an oath, I never saw in a Court of Justice. It suggests to me that these worthy and benevolent gentlemen and ladies who are soliciting money and devoting their time to reforming and Christianizing heathens from Greenland to Africa, can find work closer home, here at their own capital. If these one hundred people represented the neighborhood in which they live, under the very dome of this temple of justice and within the sound of the church bells, there is a field ripe for the harvest, and as fully demanding their attention as can be found on the sands of Africa or the shores of Abyssinia.”