_The Christian Recorder_, Philadelphia, (organ of the A. M. E. Church,) in noticing the “Fool’s Errand,” refers to the fact that the Fool found himself limited to the society of the teachers of the colored schools and a few Northern families, and asks: “Why so? Were there no colored people there? The South ostracised him because of his _opinions_, while _he_ ostracised the negroes because of their _color_.” Of the two, the _Recorder_ believes the South the more rational and consistent. * * * * * _Laws of Heredity._—One of the—not fathers, but great-grandfathers, in Israel, writes a pleasant note from Jewett City, Conn., to say how much pleasure he takes in reading the “Receipt pages” of the MISSIONARY, finding them the most interesting of the whole. He notes as an especially pleasant feature, the increasing number of “friends,” who send, as in the last number, from $2.00 to $1,747.50. He mentions with great satisfaction that he has learned to look regularly in the May number for a contribution from the grandson of an old French Huguenot, who fifty years ago hobbled regularly to the parsonage on the morning after missionary meetings, and asked him (the writer) to get 25 cents out of his purse for the work, which always left the purse empty. The grandson now sends $20. Of him, he says, with Leigh Hunt, “May his tribe increase.” We shall be glad if investigation on the part of some missionary Darwin shall establish the fact that such tendencies are transmitted with accumulating force from father to son. * * * * * In Southwest Texas, at a Freedman’s country home, our Superintendent found a Bible which had this inscription, printed upon a fly-leaf at the front: “One of 10,000 Bibles presented to the Freedmen of America by the Divinity Students’ Missionary Society, connected with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Printed at the University Press, Oxford, for the National Bible Society of Scotland.” So does religious beneficence percolate the most distant regions. Our colored fellow-citizens have been made the recipients of an immense amount of material and spiritual sympathy on the part of British Christians. These Divinity Students will be glad to know that this Bible, sent by their Society some ten years ago, is used for morning and evening family worship in an interesting household, which possesses its own farm, and which furnished hospitality to our representative. * * * * *