Two colored young ladies of rare cultivation, one an Episcopalian from Philadelphia, the other a Presbyterian from Long Island, sent down by the Society of Friends to teach in this neighborhood, reported the happy working of their Bands of Hope, the idea of which they had taken from Mr. Peebles’ Band in Dudley. Do the friends of the American Board and Home Missionary Society know that we down here are broadening their field for harvest? Some of these little churches reported contributions to aid the white people out West in supporting the Gospel and to send missionaries abroad. The one at Wilmington claimed itself to be the Banner Church of all the constituents of the American Board, having given more than any other, according to number and means, as judged by the report of Dr. Alden. And so the good friend, “Howard,” who is about to help this church to a house of worship, will see that he is sowing seed in good ground. Rev. H. E. Brown, Secretary of the Freedmen’s Dept. of the International Y. M. C. A., in his work at the South, has this season held six of his union Bible meetings at Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Dudley, Wilmington, and Savannah, three of which, as will be observed, were in this State. The series has been one of great interest and profit. There are three points of special notice. The first is the quickening of the spirit of Christian union among these people, whose sectarianism is quite intense. The second is the great honor which is put upon the word of God by the constant service of Bible readings, with the plans of the same multiplied for the people by his portable copyist. The third point in this work is, that revivals of genuine Bible religion are usually the result. This was true at the meeting at Raleigh, where there were about 300 conversions among the colored people. There is manifest an abiding increase of regard for the word of God. The quality of the converts is also hopeful. As another perceptible result, union meetings, led by an Evangelist, have since been held by the white Churches of that city, and there were about 200 hopeful conversions in these. We congratulate the Y. M. C. A. upon this successful inauguration of their work among the Freedmen. And we make grateful recognition of the influence of Maj. Joseph Hardie, of Selma, Ala., a member of the Y. M. C. A. Committee, in selecting and introducing Mr. Brown to this work in his own city.