_Demonstrated best_ by HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL WORLD’S EXPOSITIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS; viz: at PARIS, 1867; VIENNA, 1873; SANTIAGO, 1875; PHILADELPHIA, 1876; TWO HIGHEST MEDALS at PARIS 1878; and GRAND SWEDISH GOLD MEDAL, 1878. Only American Organs ever awarded highest honors at any. Sold for cash or installments. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES with new styles and prices, free. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., BOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO. * * * * * Meneely & Kimberly, BELL FOUNDERS, TROY, N. Y. Manufacture a superior quality of BELLS. Special attention given to =CHURCH BELLS=. ☞ Catalogues sent free to parties needing bells. * * * * * CHURCH CUSHIONS MADE OF THE PATENT ELASTIC FELT. For particulars, address H. D. OSTERMOOR, P. O. Box 4004. 36 Broadway, New York. * * * * * OUR ANNUAL MEETING. The Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held in Chicago, Illinois, by invitation of the Congregational churches of that city, commencing on Tuesday, October 28th, at 3 P. M. The local Committee of Arrangements, representing each Congregational Church in the city, has already at a preliminary meeting decided to hold the meetings in the First Congregational Church (Rev. E. P. Goodwin, D. D., Pastor), which has been offered with most cordial unanimity for the use of the Anniversary. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N. Y. Further announcements of arrangements and programme will be made later. * * * * * YESTERDAY’S WORK. We point to the record of results of our work among the Freedmen during the last fifteen years, as indicating a degree of progress and an amount of fruitage rarely equaled in the same length of time. We base our claims for generous gifts, now and in the years to come, upon this showing, confident that this is the best argument we can make. Is it too much to claim to have been faithful over a few things, or to ask that we be trusted with what may be needful for the many which are at hand? TO-MORROW’S WANT. Looking ahead, we see that the coming claims upon us must be greater than those of the past. The signs of the times indicate that the Lord’s work is to be done upon a larger scale in the near future; the progress, made and making, in our schools, and the call for enlargement in our church work, will make increasing demands upon us, until the time shall come when they shall be more largely self-supporting than it is possible for them to be now. We have done much--we are doing more--we must expect to do a still greater work. Give us the means, and plan large things for us in the days to come.