The A. H. M. S., true to its charter as a national institution, as soon as war had battered down the walls that were in its way, sought, with the Philip of its evangelism, to go towards the South. It explored the chief cities and centres of that region, and was entering devotedly upon that part of the field. It has kept pressing every hopeful opening. It will still be true to its national idea and do all it may be allowed to do there. None feel more keenly than do its chief officers the chagrin at the few opportunities afforded and the failure in so many of them. They have done only their duty in making the costly experiments. And now the apostolic spirit of our Congregational churches seems to say to the white people of the South, “Seeing ye count yourselves unworthy of these good things, lo, we turn to the freedmen.” If, in some distant part of the globe, a people had just been discovered, numbering 5,000,000 souls, speaking our own language, hungering for our ideas, our civilization and our Christianity, it would thrill the Christian world to go in at once and possess that land for Christ. That thing we may do in our own country, under our own flag. And some of us who now, with our years, could not pass muster to go and cope with a foreign language, have yet not a few years left in which we may do an essentially foreign missionary work in our own language, in that tongue, which, more than any other spoken by man, is freighted with the associations and the spirit of the Gospel of the Crucified One. * * * * * ANNUAL REPORTS NEEDED. Any of our friends who have the following back numbers of the Annual Report of the A. M. A. that they can spare, will confer a favor by sending them to our office as soon as convenient: Numbers 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 24. We do not ask our friends to break a set if they are anxious to keep it, but to send any extra numbers they may have. Without realizing it, we have exhausted our supply of these numbers, and now wish to make up a few extra sets to have bound for our own use. As years go by, we learn more and more the value to us of these old reports. * * * * * A GOOD EXAMPLE.