All these things encourage us to hope and pray and labor for great things. Our debt is diminished already from $93,232.99 to $57,816.90. This is quite within the average of the sums named above. Not one of these societies or churches but will say: “These gifts, to deliver us from the bondage of debt, have proved the grandest helps to our forward work.” Let no one think that money thus given does not tell upon the work. It does tell: not this year alone, but every year it puts money in our purse to be expended in the directest furtherance of our mission to carry the Gospel of light and love to the poor and neglected races. It is in effect a permanent fund, the interest of which we have for yearly use. Is there not some one, or may there not be more far-sighted men, to whom the Lord has entrusted a liberal share of His gold and silver, whom these examples and this opportunity may stimulate? * * * * * In accordance with the decision at the last Anniversary Meeting of the American Missionary Association, the printing of this paper will be done hereafter in New York City. In parting with General Armstrong and his printers at Hampton, it gives us pleasure to bear our warmest testimony to their uniform courtesy and to their untiring efforts to relieve, as far as possible, the unavoidable difficulty of printing at so great a distance from these rooms. Of the excellence of the work done at the Hampton office, we need use no words of commendation, for each successive number has carried to our readers its best evidence. During the past year, as we learn from General Armstrong, it has given help to eight young colored girls who, as folders, have been able to earn enough to materially assist them in meeting their school bills; it has given steady employment to two young men who, twelve years ago, were enrolled in the first schools opened at Hampton by the Association. From little bright-eyed pickaninnies they have grown to be competent printers; they are now a help to their parents and are growing up to be among the solid men of Hampton. Extra help being needed, a very worthy colored mechanic in Litchfield, Conn. was engaged. He not only worked on the MISSIONARY, but having rented a house in a region destitute of workers, he at once gathered the young and the old, and every Sunday morning during the summer a motley crowd of about fifty in number was collected in his verandah. Seated on boxes, tubs, pails, etc., they received excellent instruction from Mr. Rowe, through whose good work we hope that some who were blind can now see. The officers of the Hampton Institute bear testimony to the decided benefits received from the printing of the MISSIONARY at Hampton. It has been of no small advantage as an aid to the Industrial Department there, which is the peculiar and difficult feature of the Institute. * * * * *