"If I Mistake not Christ is deeply in earnest to have the good news of His salvation proclaimed in all the earth. His Heralds must be ever advancing. As has been said, there must soon be a pushing out of the old fields of India, especially from the less productive ones. into the regions beyond. The attention will be turned to the those mountains about Assam, particularly to the pass into Central Asia and Western China, Shall we American Baptist Cultivate these rich new fields convenient to us, where God has in His Providence placed us, into which he, as it were bide us enter? Or Shall we blind ourslaves to the signs of the time and miss our opportunity? Let us go forward and plant the banner of the cross on all these hills and make them voice the praise of our Master and King."