That there was no alienation of feeling attending this separate operation in home missions as a testimony against slavery, is evident from the fact that the churches and the missionary pastors of the A. M. A. were so readily turned over to the A. H. M. S., and by it so cheerfully received. That National Home Missionary Society had all along borne more or less of testimony against slave-holding; but when, in 1857, it passed a rule by which all of its fifty-five Southern Presbyterian missionaries were dropped from its list, then no one could question the soundness of its position. So, again, the readiness with which testifying churches returned to regular contributions in behalf of the American Board, as well as of this Society, revealed an abiding love for these very organizations with which for a time they had not walked in fellowship. The First and the Plymouth Churches of Chicago, which, from their organization, had taken each its two annual collections for the A. M. A., one for the home and one for the foreign department, fell in with the old Society and Board as naturally and heartily as though they had always been among the more conservative churches. On the other hand, the chief officers and supporters of the old organizations were glad that the organic testimony thus borne, along with other influences, had been able to tone up public sentiment so that the satisfactory action could be taken by them. And now everybody sees that, out of that testifying process, God was bringing on another organization to be ready against the day when He should open to it the special field of the South and of Africa. —_Rev. Dr. Roy, in the Advance._ * * * * * THE FREEDMEN. * * * * * GEORGIA. Brunswick—Risley School Exhibition. AS SEEN BY A SOUTHERNER. This school is taught by S. B. Morse, a graduate of Atlanta University. The following account is from a local newspaper. MR. EDITOR: It has ever been a source of unfeigned pleasure to me to observe any efforts tending to the elevation and refinement of humanity. Hence, it was no less a pleasure than surprise last evening when I found so marvelously successful an effort in that direction, as evinced in the concert and exhibition—the closing exercises of the Risley School. Mr. Morse (a graduate of the University of Atlanta) may justly congratulate himself upon the proficiency attained by his pupils, considering the great difficulties and discouragements under which he has necessarily had to labor.