Elmore L. Anthony was born a slave in Allen County, Kentucky, June 8th, 1848. Early in the progress of the war he ran away to join the Union army, but being rejected as a soldier on account of his youth, he returned to his old master, who was a stock trader, preferring, if he must be a servant to anybody, to serve him. In 1863 he left again, and soon after entered the regular army, where he served three years. He was promoted to be a sergeant, and while at Fort Duncan, in Texas, was detailed to be superintendent of laborers, having the oversight of over two hundred men. He says that he got on well in the army, simply because he was perfectly temperate and sober. He bears testimonials from his officers as to his moral character and faithfulness. In 1870 he made his way to Berea, Ky., and entered the primary class. He has been there ever since, teaching during the last six years in his vacations; and was a member of the senior class when he came, at our call and by the advice and hearty commendation of the president and faculty of the college, to give himself to work in Africa. That he held, nearly from the beginning quite to the close of these years, the trusted position of janitor of the Ladies’ Hall, is no small evidence of the confidence which has been reposed in him. He is a man of stalwart frame, has been medically examined and pronounced perfect in health. He seems to us admirably adapted to the place as our “man of affairs,” competent at the same time to fill a gap in school as teacher when needed, and while not a preacher in any sense of the word, yet of such honest purpose to do good that he will be no less a missionary for that. He sailed the 13th of February _via_ Liberia. * * * * * THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT. GENERAL CLINTON B. FISK. It was a happy thought on the part of somebody to prepare a Sunday-school Concert exercise, which should embody so much valuable information and afford so great pleasure and holy joy, as does that of the Jubilee Concert exercise, prepared by the Rev. G. D. Pike on substantially the same basis as that first introduced by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Massachusetts. It was my good fortune on Sunday, January 12th, to participate in the exercises of a concert, conducted in accordance with this exceedingly well arranged programme, in the Sunday-school of the Congregational church at Stamford, Conn., Rev. G. B. Willcox, D. D., pastor. It was a glad day in that, to me, the most attractive of all New England villages. If any other town in the East can furnish a roll of better men, women and children than those who adorn the beautiful Christian homes of Stamford, then I want to go there and attend a Jubilee Concert exercise.