——“In Western Africa the climate is still our great difficulty. It cripples our work by prostrating our men. The Gambia Mission has been almost entirely deprived of its Missionaries during the year from this cause, and the River Mission has been obliged to be suspended. The Committee would gladly diminish, if possible, these risks, and improve the chances of health, and attention is being given to this subject; but the need is being felt more and more keenly every year of adequate and well-furnished institutions, in which _the African shall be trained to win Africa for Christ._ The education of the girls, the women of the future, is also most desirable here.”——_From the Annual Report of the Wesleyan Missionary Society of Great Britain._ ——The Church Missionary Society received last year $935,000, and expended $1,020,000. The Wesleyan Missionary Society reports receipts, $666,000; expenditures, $786,000. * * * * * OUR QUERY COLUMN. 1. How do you prevent truancy? 2. How do you prevent tardiness? 3. Do you allow anything but failures in lessons to be deducted from scholarship? 4. What is your standard in scholarship for promotion? 5. How much time, and in what manner, do you devote to religious exercises in schools wholly attended by resident pupils? * * * * * Answers to Queries in June Missionary. Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary (Latham’s Edition, 1866-74, 4to, 4 vols.), probably surpasses all others in the English book market. Richardson’s is an accepted standard, especially in matters of definition and derivation. Walker’s is still a standard in pronunciation. Of American dictionaries, Webster’s leads in England. Khedive is pronounced Kay-deeve. So far as we know, Beaufort, S. C., alone is pronounced Bew-fort. Other places of the name, Bo-fort. * * * * * THE FREEDMEN. REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D., Field Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga. * * * * * THE HAMPTON ANNIVERSARY. The Negro and the Indian——Co-Education of the Races——Addresses by the Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Richmond, and Secretary Carl Schurz, of Washington. By the Editor.