Your committee are impressed with the care, fidelity and economy shown in all departments, and can suggest no way of reducing the percentage of expenses except by enlarged contributions. It costs just as much time and just as much paper to acknowledge the receipt of $50 as it does of $100. If the patrons of the Association will double their contributions they will lessen the percentage of expenses one-half. After long years of struggle the Association is now out of debt and ready for an advance. The machinery is in order, and the motive power necessary to keep it in motion is the earnest prayers of God’s people and a liberal supply of the money which is so rapidly finding its way to our shores. In view of the grand work which has been done and the still greater work to be accomplished, your committee desire to urge upon the friends of the Association the necessity for a large increase of contributions the coming year, so that the missionaries and laborers in this good cause may “go forward.” JAS. W. SCOVILLE, SAMUEL HASTINGS, GEO. BUSHNELL, CHAS. L. MEAD, W. G. HUBBARD, JOSEPH H. TOWNE, W. J. PHELPS. * * * * * THE FREEDMEN. REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. * * * * * EDUCATIONAL WORK. Report of the Committee on Educational Work in the South. After speaking of the importance, the providential and varying character of the work, the report concludes: