Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in which it is located. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. * * * * * VOL. XXXII. FEBRUARY, 1878. No. 2. * * * * * _American Missionary Association._ * * * * * We desire to express our grateful appreciation of the kind notices with which “THE MISSIONARY” in its new form has been received, especially by the newspapers edited under Congregational auspices. Their relations to us have always been of the pleasantest, and their readiness to do us favors has been a constant help and encouragement. May their circulation never grow less! * * * * * We are daily receiving enclosures of twenty-five cents, as payment for the MISSIONARY for 1878. We trust that the receipt of the January number, and the present form of the magazine, will monthly remind our friends that _a quarter of a dollar only pays for half a year_. Please send the other quarter, all who have made this mistake. * * * * * The Belleville Avenue Congregational Church of Newark, N. J., and the Congregational Church at Mount Carmel, Conn., have already accepted our proposition to send 100 copies of the MISSIONARY for the year to one address for $30.00. Other churches and neighborhoods are canvassing for it; who will go and do likewise? We want readers, and those who pay something for the magazine will read it. A letter, enclosing his subscription, from a Presbyterian minister, says that he can secure the information he desires in regard to the Southern field and work from no other source. * * * * * We welcome with special pleasure to our table, the first number of the _Fisk Expositor_, published at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., from which we give an extract on another page. It is an additional witness to the devotion and enterprise, with which our professors and teachers are working in all directions, to extend their influence for the information and enlightenment of those among whom they labor. This is another of a group of such publications, among which are the _Southern Workman_, of Hampton, the _Southern Sentinel_, of Talladega, and the _Straight Occasional_, of New Orleans. They are full of information as to the work of these institutions, and of valuable discussions of topics of interest and importance to the colored people of the land. * * * * * SMALL GIFTS.