THE Church Missionary Society of England has just received, and is seeking to respond to, a new call from the heart of Africa, for the establishment of a mission in a region which the society has long had in view, but which it has hitherto been prevented from entering. Mr. Eugene Stock calls this, "without doubt, the most important opening for the society's efforts since Mr. Stanley's appeal for Uganda, in 1875." General Gordon, when governor-general of the Soudan, twenty-seven years ago, made an appeal to the Church Missionary Society to begin work among the pagan tribes on the Upper Nile. The Uganda project occupied attention at that time, and after Gordon's death the door was closed for many years. But the victory at Omdurman established British authority throughout that region, and, while the Gordon Memorial Mission was established at Khartoum, its work was not permitted to extend to Moslems. But recently Lord Cromer, the British minister in Egypt, and the Sirdar of the Soudan, Sir R. Wingate, have expressed their desire that British missions should be established among the pagan tribes further south, whom Gordon had in mind when he made his call twenty-seven years ago. These British officials have deemed it impolitic to permit the preaching of the Gospel among the Moslems whom they are trying to govern, but they see no reasons for restrictions among the pagan tribes at the south. Lord Cromer has now pointed out a definite field, and has invited the Church Missionary Society to enter it. The13territory is extensive, stretching southward on both sides of the White Nile to the Uganda Protectorate, and the northeast corner of the Kongo Free State. A mission there would be midway between Egypt and Uganda, its center being about equidistant from Khartoum and Mengo. The committee of the Church Missionary Society has issued a statement in reference to this new call, and asks for prayers and gifts and offers of service with reference to this undertaking. Of this opening Lord Cromer has written: "Not only do these districts present a far more promising field for missionary enterprise than those whose population is Mohammedan, but the manifest political objections which exist in allowing mission work in the latter, do not in any great degree exist in the former case."