The Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held in the Broadway Congregational Church, Taunton, Mass., October 29–31. The meeting will be organized on Tuesday, at three o’clock P. M., and at half-past seven o’clock in the evening the annual sermon will be preached by Rev. S. E. Herrick, D. D., of Boston. On Wednesday, papers will be read by Rev. George Leon Walker, D. D., and others. Wednesday evening will be occupied with addresses and reminiscences by present and former missionaries of the A. M. A. Thursday will be devoted to reports of committees and discussions of the work. The meeting will close Thursday evening, with addresses from able and distinguished speakers, to be named hereafter. The people of Taunton will undertake to entertain all the friends who may attend the meetings. Those desiring hospitality can address Charles H. Atwood, Esq., until Sept. 20th. Return cards, assigning places, will be duly sent. * * * * * THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AMONG THE FREEDMEN. The _Independent_ closes a careful and, in the main, accurate summary of the work of Christian education among the negroes, with a view of what the Roman Catholics are doing. After speaking of the large estimates of money expended, and pupils taught by that church, it says: “Nothing approaching a confirmation of these estimates has been brought to our notice. We have carefully examined the Roman Catholic papers with reference to this subject for a year past, and have been able to glean from them only the most barren record of facts and isolated movements.... We believe that, if the Roman Catholics really had facts to prove that they have made the progress they claim to have made, they would not hesitate to publish them conspicuously. As they fail to produce them, we are contented to believe, for the present, that they are doing no more than their fair share of the work, if so much, and receiving no more than their share of the conversions.” In a later issue, the same paper says: “We are glad to have been able to capture and expose the spectre which has been frightening Protestants so much. We mean the wholesale conversion of negroes to Catholicism. In a recent article in our ‘Religious Intelligence’ we gave all the information we could gather about the extent and results of Catholic missions among the freedmen, and there was nothing in it to alarm or annoy anybody. The _Catholic Review_ quotes liberally from the article, and virtually concedes the accuracy of our statements in the following sentences: