“This blessed Association, ... and the dear old American Board, and the Home Missionary Society, thank God, are one to-day, and all past bitterness is forgotten.” _Prest. E. H. Fairchild_ said that the anti-slavery revolution, despite the indifference of some churches, was essentially a religious movement, aided heartily by many right-minded men outside the church, but that the few noisy infidels who denounced the Bible and the church “had little more to do with the emancipation of the slaves than they now have with the education of the Freedmen.” The _Evening Gazette_, of Worcester, says: The meeting of the American Missionary Association in this city, just ended, has been singularly practical and business-like. We have the authority of an old reporter for saying that he has rarely heard, where there was so much speaking, so little uttered that it was irrelevant or commonplace. It is a good gauge of the character and intelligence of the six or eight hundred strangers who have been called to the city during the week by this occasion. * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1881. * * * * * MAINE, $584.67. Augusta. Joel Spalding. ($5 of which _for Indians, Hampton N. and A. Inst._) to const. REV. HENRY E. MOTT, L. M. $30.00 Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Ch., $100; First Cong. Ch., $20.73 120.73 Bath. Central Ch. and Soc. 15.00 Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch. 19.48 Blanchard. Daniel Blanchard 10.00 Brownville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., by the Hon. A. H. Morrill 100.00 Cumberland Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. B. B. SWEETSER, L. M. 50.00 Fryeburg. Cong. Ch. 8.80 Gardiner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 Hallowell. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $42.26, and Sab. Sch., $25 67.26 Hallowell. Classical Academy Bible Classes, by A. W. Burr, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00 Hampden. C. E. H. 1.00 Norridgewock. Bundle of C. Portland. A. A. Steel 50.00 Portland. Bethel Ch., _for Wilmington, N.C._ 18.00 Portland. 2 Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._ South Bridgton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 South Freeport. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Wilmington, N.C._ 39.40 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $280.09.