MCLEANSVILLE, N. C.—Bible temperance meetings at McLeansville, N. C., seem to tone up the sentiments of the people. One young man, who at considerable trouble and expense had procured a situation in a grocery store where whiskey is sold, has thrown up his position and gone to work on a farm, because he was convinced that the Bible condemned liquor-selling, and he could not ask God’s blessing upon his daily work. * * * * * CHARLESTON, S. C.—Prof. S. D. Gaylord, principal of Avery Institute and licentiate of the Central Association of Iowa, was ordained in Plymouth Church, Charleston, S. C., by a Council convened on the 29th and 30th of May last. Several members of the Council preached in various churches of the city, which fact indicates a growing ministerial fellowship with our missionaries and pastors. The Avery Institute for the year has numbered 476 pupils, with an average of 376—its most prosperous year. The “renewal of the Church Covenant,” introduced and recommended by Pastor Cutler, is proving a great spiritual blessing to the church, and conduces to greater watchfulness on the part of the members. * * * * * ATLANTA, GA.—On the 28th of March, the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Atlanta proposed that the debt of that church should be paid off. $26, from two Sunday-schools in the North, were handed in by the pastor as a _starter_. The Professors of the University gave $30 more, and the people nobly came forward and have now paid off all the debt, making some $563 they have raised, aside from current expenses, since last October. They have since raised money, which, with special gifts for that purpose, has procured a fine 800 lbs. bell, which will greet our Secretary, when he reaches Atlanta on the 24th of June. * * * * * MARIETTA, GA.—A gem of a church school-house, 24×40 feet, with a gallery, and furnished with wardrobes and Sherwood’s crown double desks, was dedicated at Marietta, Ga., on the 6th of June. The people raised $300 for it; two young men in Illinois gave $50, and the A. M. A. furnished the remainder, and owns the property. C. P. Jordon, a graduate of Atlanta University, takes the school; and Rev. E. J. Penney, also a graduate of Atlanta University, and more recently of Andover Seminary, will have charge of the church-work. Our Field Superintendent preached the sermon. A promising enterprise, strongly manned. * * * * * MOBILE, ALA.—The _Daily News_, in giving notice of the examinations at Emerson Institute, says: “Prof. Crawford deserves great credit for the successful manner in which he has conducted and built up this colored institution, which today has no superior in our State.” And Miss Stevenson, of that school, from whom we have had a pleasant call, speaks of a great change in the feelings of the citizens of that city toward the school, its work and teachers.