Practical Missionary Work.
THE Missionary Herald says: "English Protestant missionary societies are now acting in concert in presenting an appeal to Her Majesty's Government, showing the immense evils of the liquor traffic, and what a menace it is to the native population of Africa. It is affirmed that in large portions of the continent the people were entirely ignorant of the existence of ardent spirits, and were wholly unable to obtain them except through the agents of European merchants. Our own Board has now cordially united with other American missionary societies, including the Presbyterian, the Methodist, and the Baptist Boards, in appealing to the United States Government to aid in preventing the exportation of distilled liquors to Africa. It is hoped that by this united effort some practicable way may be devised for the suppression of a traffic which is fearfully corrupting both to the foreigners who engage in it and to the natives who are supplied by it."