PERU is a natural center, from the state capital of which our Gospel work will radiate outward in many different directions. As a proper place for missionary headquarters, Lima has the following advantages over all other cities on the entire coast:— 1. The climate is almost perfect, being neither too cold nor too hot during any time of the year for comfort and activity. 2. Public health is exceptional. Outside of smallpox (which with the present system of enforced vaccination, will soon disappear) epidemics are almost entirely unknown. When contrasted with other coast towns, such as Panama and Guayaquil, where yellow fever and other malignant diseases are very destructive to human life, Lima appears as the most favorable and most desirable center for all of our missionary labors, health alone being considered. 3. It is the largest city, and with Callao only seven miles away, has the largest, best, and most important seaport between San Francisco and Valparaiso. 4. It is in touch with nearly, or perhaps fully, two millions of Indians living on the transandine table-lands of Peru, Bolivia, and the upper Amazon. These Indians are, in a large measure, the industrious, peace-loving descendants of a former unique, and in many respects wonderful, civilization, and are deserving of the sympathy and missionary effort of all Christendom. They can be easily evangelized. And when once freed from the priests, who do nothing more for their material and spiritual welfare than to rob them by an unlawful and iniquitous system of forced tithing, and fill them with superstitions regarding the miraculous powers of the Virgin Mary and of wooden images—when once freed from these conditions, and placed under those enabling them to unfold to the fullest possibilities of their manhood, these redskins will make as good agriculturalists, artisans, teachers, preachers, philosophers, and scientists as the Anglo-Saxons themselves. They can be reached better through missionary effort directed from Lima than in any other way. 5. Lima is in touch, by means of rail, water, and telegraphic communications, with all other coast towns far and near, thus making it, in connection with the other advantages just named, the most desirable missionary center in all the west coast of South America.—Gospel in All Lands.