While temperance revivals, under various auspices—of men and women, of ribbons red and blue—are noted through the land, our Southern field is not neglected. Our readers will see, in a majority of the communications from our schools and churches in this number, references to the increase of a temperance sentiment, and an abstinence practice; here in a church, and there in a school; here in the reformation of dissipated lives, and there in the preoccupation of the minds of the young. Intemperance is a giant evil South, as well as North, among the colored people and the Indians, as well as with the whites. Thank God for every victory. Pray God for wisdom and patience with which to withstand, and then to stand. * * * * * IN A NUT-SHELL. The only caste-oppressed races in America are the Negroes, Indians and Chinamen. —The quarrels of the white people in America over the negro have caused more bloodshed, and wasted more treasure, than all other causes combined, and we are not yet at peace among ourselves about him. The South contains a little more than one-third of the population of the country. It has 3,550,425 persons over ten years old who cannot read; the West has only 409,175. The South has 1,137,303 _voters_ who cannot read their ballots; the West has only 217,403. Have _patriots_ no duties here? The Negroes in the South are more accessible to the Gospel than any other people on earth; they welcome it; they are near us, speak our language, their fervency will add a warmer element to our piety, and they seem called of God to carry the Gospel to the land of their fathers. Have _Christians_ no duties to them? —The American Missionary Association bears to these caste-oppressed races the help they need in education, practical morality and piety. It has founded or fostered permanent educational institutions for training ministers and teachers. In its forty-five schools are 6,962 scholars, and its former students are now teaching 100,000 pupils. Its church work lays sure foundations. Sixty-two churches are under its care, with 4,127 members—an average of sixty-six—nearly all the growth of fifteen years. It has seventy-four theological students in training; has prepared many ministers of the colored race, and has sent out nine colored missionaries to Africa. Seldom, if ever, has so much been accomplished in so short a time at so small a cost. * * * * * OUR FINANCES. We have reached the half-way station in our annual journey. The statement of receipts, in this number of the MISSIONARY, is the sixth since the last annual meeting. Our friends and patrons naturally desire to know how we have weathered the stormy seas, and what the prospect is of reaching port in good condition, and we desire to tell them frankly and fully. We might refer them to the monthly report, but we know that many of them are too busy to keep accounts for us, their agents.