Doubtless the Lord could perfect this work without our aid, but He has chosen to entrust it to our keeping. And with every instinct of humanity, every impulse of patriotism, every principle of Christianity urging us to the work, shall we not receive it as from our Saviour’s hand, holding fast that which we have, that no man take our crown? * * * * * BENEFACTIONS. Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick has given $100,000 to the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Chicago, to place it entirely out of debt. The late David N. Lord, of New York City, left by will $100,000 for foreign missions, and $50,000 to the American Bible Society. He also bequeathed $62,500 to local objects of charity. Mr. R. L. Stewart, of New York City, has given $200,000 to be divided equally between Princeton College and Princeton Theological Seminary, to be applied for the endowment of Professorships. By the will of Mrs. Altana Wescott, of Jersey City, nearly $100,000 is given to institutions connected with the Episcopal Church. The widow of the Cologne banker, Von Oppenheim, has given $150,000 for a hospital for poor children of all denominations, in memory of her late husband. Mr. Wm. B. Spooner, of Boston, left by will $3,000, the income of which is to be expended for the education of the colored people at the South. He also made liberal provision for the State Total Abstinence Society and the National Temperance Society of New York, besides other bequests to worthy objects. Mr. John T. Crawford, of Cincinnati, has left an estate valued from $30,000 to $100,000, to be applied for a home for aged colored men. His directions were that the institution be built on College Hill. There seems to be some doubt about the ability of the executors to carry out the conditions of the bequest. The American Presbyterian Board of Missions has received from the estate of the late Mrs. Lapsley, of New Albany, Ind., the sum of $215,000, with the prospect of receiving $60,000 or $70,000 more from the same source. * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. Africa. —Sir Garnet Wolseley has given to the Berlin Missionary Society a large tract of land in South Africa to be used for a Mission Station. —The mission at Frere Town, East Central Africa, has proved an inviting rendezvous for run-away slaves. The missionaries have no power to keep them, but have opportunity to expostulate with their owners for any cruelties they may inflict upon them. The practical result is that the masters become intimidated and angry, and would make an end of the missionaries if they had the power. The settlement has already been threatened with destruction. It is hoped, however, that the impending calamity may be over-ruled, to the overthrow of slavery on the coast.