Thursday evening, after prayer by Rev. Lewis Grout, Rev. O. H. White, D.D., for six years Secretary of the Freedmen’s Missions Aid Society in London, spoke of English co-operation and of the miseries of the slave trade in Africa. Henry D. Hyde, Esq., of Boston, pressed the claims of the Association to more liberal support, and John B. Gough, Esq., in a series of incidents, told in his inimitable style, illustrated the capacity of the colored race to be educated and elevated. After some parting words from President Tobey, resolutions of thanks to the churches, committees, pastors, choir and railroads, and to the hospitable people of Worcester, and addresses in response by pastors Lamson and Phillips, the meeting closed with the benediction by Dr. O. H. White, to meet next year in Cleveland, Ohio. Near the close of the session a beautiful white dove entered the church and suggestively perched in a high niche over the pulpit platform. Notwithstanding the prevailing dullness of the weather during our Annual Meeting at Worcester, there was nothing like dullness in the meetings. Daily the capacious church was thronged with deeply interested listeners. The high character of the addresses, the absorbing interest of subjects discussed, the excellent music of the ample choir, the completeness of arrangements by the local committee, and their uniform courtesy and unremitting attentions, and last, but not least, the generous hospitality of the Christian people of the city, all conspired to make the occasion one to be long and delightfully remembered. The American Missionary Association turns with fresh hope and new inspiration to the work of the coming year. * * * * * GENERAL SURVEY. * * * * * FREEDMEN. The fortunes of the freed people during the current year indicate a marked degree of progress. A healthy growth in all the branches of our Southern work is quite discernible. It is strikingly evident that the Freedmen are discovering the extent of the horizon opening up before them through our educational institutions. At one time, many of their leaders were attracted by the allurements of political preferment, and counted nothing so good as position in office, and many such, doubtless, there will be to the end of time. There is, however, an increasing number among them who are coming to realize that intelligence and character developed by Christian education have a commanding worth and solid value that cannot be conveyed by an appointment or imbibed during the sessions of a legislature. This good result has been hastened by Teachers’ Institutes, conducted by Southern and Northern educators, among the black and also the white citizens, sometimes large numbers of both classes mingling in the same convention.