“Dr. Strieby spoke of the work of the departed in the American Missionary Association, and especially with eloquent words depicted the tremendous moral courage, the great cautiousness, the womanly tenderness, the transparent simplicity which were blended in his character. Strange that so sweet a man ever had the grit to take up the battle against slavery. Rev. Mr. Ray, a colored minister, who had known Mr. Jocelyn, and had been associated with him for forty years, gave fitness to the occasion by his words of gratitude, and by several telling reminiscences,—one of which was that, in 1839, Mr. Jocelyn came down from New Haven to take up the gauntlet of debate upon the colonization question with Mr. Robert Finley. The discussion was in a hall in Nassau Street, and Mr. Jocelyn’s main reliance was the word of God. “Rev. Mr. Lockwood, a former pastor, bore loving testimony. Dr. Edward Beecher went back to an acquaintance of fifty years ago, when a student in Yale College, under concern of soul, he went to Mr. Jocelyn. He was such a spiritual, faithful Christian as a young man in passing that crisis would be apt to seek out. Dr. B. was associated with him in his Sabbath-school and church work among the colored people, and carried with him that same impulse when he went to Illinois College, and stood by Elijah P. Lovejoy until they shot him down. In closing, Dr. Beecher said that the words appropriate to the character of the departed were: ‘In simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world.’” M. E. STRIEBY. * * * * * RANDOM SUGGESTIONS. Will the Exodus Affect the Work of the Association in the South? I answer without hesitation, _it will not_. To the present time the exodus movement has been confined very largely to the disturbed parishes, or to certain exceptional cases where the conditions of labor have been oppressive. In New Orleans, while conventions and open-air meetings have been held, and the policy of emigration has been discussed, but few of the Freedmen have decided to leave the State and find a home in Kansas. There is a restless, dissatisfied feeling among the masses of the negroes, especially the poorer classes, induced by the glowing appeals made to them; but the exodus has not assumed, and I believe will not assume, large proportions. The masses will stay on Southern soil and abide in Southern homes. My opinion is based upon the supposition that their rights, social, educational and religious, and their rights also as laborers, will not be invaded or denied beyond what they are at present.