His home was two or three miles from school, yet he trudged on year after year, often drenched with rain and chilled into ague, hoping that some time he would know enough to serve his people as a teacher in a country school. Several of his teachers advised him to learn a trade, judging that from all human appearances he could never teach or control a school. Others who knew more of his Bible knowledge and sublime faith thought that, perhaps, God could find a place for him somewhere; and He has. Every summer vacation now he goes out into some obscure corner to teach, and reports come back to us that our best students are not so successful as he in leading their pupils to that beginning of all wisdom, the fear of the Lord. Chatham’s success is to me a living sermon from the text, “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.” And why that Spirit helps him seems to be because he is willing to do anything, to go anywhere, to be only a sower, and let another be the reaper; in short, while he is weak, yet is he strong, because of that most beautiful of all graces, humility. How slow I have been learning the hard lesson, that God passes by the learned, the brilliant and the talented until they are thoroughly humbled, and, to our surprise, honors some lowly one who is willing to give God the glory and not beg back any share of it. “For thus saith the High and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy place _with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit_.” * * * * * LETTERS TO THE TREASURER. The pastor of the church at Rehoboth, Mass., writes as follows: “The enclosed five dollars was handed me after our missionary concert last evening by a young brother who told me that he had set apart a small piece of ground on his farm, resolving to cultivate it for the Arthington Mission in Central Africa. This five dollars is the first proceeds.” * * * * * SAMUEL GORDON HALEY. Our Treasurer received recently two thousand dollars for a scholarship endowment fund for the Fisk University, which was from Mrs. A. M. Haley, widow of Samuel Gordon Haley, and was acknowledged in the September AMERICAN MISSIONARY. We publish the following obituary notice of Mr. Haley as an illustration not only of the excellent character of the man, but also as a testimonial to the conscientious act of his widow, who is a worthy Baptist lady, in bestowing in honor of his memory this amount to promote educational work under the auspices of our Association, which was dear to him.