REV. J. E. ROY, D. D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT. Then—in October, 1860—as the newly-appointed District Secretary for the A. M. A., I attended its fourteenth annual meeting, in pastor M. E. Strieby’s church at Syracuse. It was an occasion of congratulation that the receipts for that year had come up to $56,000—$5,000 more than for the preceding, and $2,000 more than for any previous year. There had been sixty missionary laborers in foreign lands, and 112 in our own country, the most of whom were in the West, and forty of them in Illinois. The churches aided numbered 140, to which had been added 989 members, of whom 659 came by profession of faith. Twenty-five revivals were reported. In the South, North Carolina had one missionary and Kentucky had four, all of whom were engaged in caring for little churches among the white people. In a year and a half the war came on, and our missionaries were driven out of the South. The American Home Missionary Society had cleared itself, the first of all the national societies, from complicity with slaveholding, and so the missionary churches of the A. M. A. at the North and the District Secretary were transferred to the old society. Now—after sixteen and a half years—I find myself, by the clearest drift of Providence, back in the service of the Association. At its anniversary of 1859, in Chicago, there was a discussion as to what should come of the A. M. A. when all the societies and churches should have reached the anti-slavery standard. Some held that the Association was only a tug to help those noble crafts out to sea. President Blanchard said, “Yes, a tug; but when she has got them all over the bar we will change her into a frigate, to course up and down all the Southern waters.” Last fall, the Association came back to Syracuse to hold its thirtieth anniversary, and, sure enough, the tug had come in as a frigate, with report of engagements all over the South. And so it had been running for the last twelve years. The Treasurer’s report ran up to $264,709. Instead of the 112 white churches North, are shown 59 churches among the ex-slaves; also 7 chartered institutions, 14 high and normal schools, with 10,000 scholars, and with 100,000 pupils reached by their teachers. The Indian work abides; the Chinese has come on. The scheme for evangelizing Africa, by using the Christianized freedmen, is opening into proportions immensely beyond the conception of its early movers.