We have already appropriated several thousand dollars more than in previous years upon the Southern field, and that mainly in the work of Christian education. If our readers only knew the many things we have not done, they would count the expansion to be very little. Among other things, as was indicated in the Annual Report, and as is set forth more explicitly elsewhere, we have enlarged our Indian work, not in the far West, but in Virginia. We have allowed something more for the foreign field, and added a few hundred dollars for the Chinese Mission in California. Our friends will have the satisfaction this year of knowing that their gifts all go to do the work which presses now; no more is needed to fill up the hollows of the land through which we travelled long ago. They must not fail us, then, who have helped us in our distress; but much more, stand by us, now that they have enabled us to give ourselves wholly to the wants to be met and to the work in hand. * * * * * PROFESSOR CHASE IN AFRICA. It has for some months seemed desirable to the Executive Committee that an experienced man, in the carefulness of whose inspection and the calmness of whose judgment they might fully rely, should go to see for them, with his own eyes, the field on the West Coast of Africa, the missionary band, and the work it is doing. The great difficulty has been to lay hands upon a man who should unite with the qualifications required the willingness and the ability to go. That obstacle has given way at last, and an embassy is on the way. Prof. Thomas N. Chase had been detailed from his duties as an instructor in Greek at Atlanta, where his eminent abilities have been most fully proved by the annual examinations of his classes, and where his presence has been valued for his manifold service, for special duties in superintending the plans and erection of buildings in the Southern field. Some important preliminary work had been accomplished in that direction, when it was found that the money which was anticipated for this purpose would not be at the disposal of the Association for some months. Prof. Chase being thus open to our call, and being the man of all men we should have chosen for this post, the proposal was made to him that he should take this trip to the Mendi Mission, and inspect the work. After some hesitation, but with much less than was anticipated, and regarding the circumstances and the call as of the Lord, he consented, with the full agreement in his decision of his excellent and devoted wife.