DEAR SIR: Allow me space in your columns to acknowledge my thanks to our Northern friends, that they have interest enough in us to furnish the colored ministers here with the _Witness_; this is a grand way to diffuse Christian intelligence among a down-trodden race. May God bless them and you. You shall have my prayers for your success. I see that my subscription will expire on the 15th; please continue my paper for another year. I am yours, etc., A. J. WILSON. * * * * * _To the Editor of the Witness._ ANNISTON, ALA. DEAR SIR: I spent three sessions in Talladega College and Theological Department. During the three months’ vacation of each year I taught school at Anniston, Ala., my present location. During this time the President of the Woodstock Iron Co. had an eye upon my work. They have shown their sympathy by the erection of a neat little cottage, which has done its part as a parsonage. Besides, they pay a portion of my salary for teaching. I have charge of the colored school of this town. I commenced labor here in April, 1875. Since that time many have reformed and become stalwart Christian men and women. I claim only to have been an instrument in God’s hands to the salvation of souls. Now to the dear friend who sends me the _Witness_. You may rest assured that your donation has not been as pearls cast before swine; it is as bread upon the waters, and if it doesn’t return to you in this life, it certainly will greet you in the far better land. I prize the _Witness_ next to my Bible. It has been to me strength in weakness, light in darkness, a means of peace in times of trouble; in short, it has been food to my soul. _The Witness_ is valuable to me in a two-fold sense. First, the motive which prompted the giver; second, the vast amount of information it contains which I could not find or get elsewhere. My only wish and constant prayer are that every colored preacher on the globe may have the _Witness_. I am fraternally yours in Christ, P. J. MCENTOSH, Pastor First Congregational Church, Anniston, Ala. * * * * * POWERS SHOP, LAURENS CO., S. C. DEAR EDITOR: I have been kindly furnished with your valuable paper since last August to the present time. I am certainly grateful for the kindness of the friend that paid for it. May God bless him ten-fold. Inclosed in this you will please find an order for your valuable paper, _The Weekly Witness_. I induced six young gentlemen to pay twenty-five cents each, thereby raising the required sum. May God bless you and your papers, for they are doing much good. I will do you the good I can. Let the friends in the pulpit who receive the _Witness_ work for it, and work now.