A benevolent gentleman offers to duplicate any excess of $50 or more over last year’s contribution by any churches to the American Missionary Association, up to the aggregate amount of $2,500. * * * * * The “Gospel in all Lands” for March, published by Eugene R. Smith, at the Bible House, is devoted to Africa and the Africans. It gives a resumé of the missionary endeavors prosecuted in Africa by the different denominations of Christians, covering a period of about 150 years. It also contains four maps and numerous illustrations. We know of no one pamphlet likely to be so helpful to any one who may wish to possess himself of the present attitude of missionary affairs in the Dark Continent as this. * * * * * It is gratifying to have testimony to the progress of the colored race at the South from witnesses outside of our missionaries, confirmatory of their evidence. One of the missionaries of the American Sunday-school Union writes from South-western Virginia: “In Pulaski County I attended the best Sunday-school Association I was ever in. It was among the colored people. They are intensely in earnest in Sunday-school work, and anxious to learn. They are very poor, yet buy more books than their white neighbors. Some of them are quite intelligent. They take hold of the International Lesson System well. Most of the Sunday-schools which are kept up during the winter here are colored schools. They ought to have a Sunday-school missionary of their own color.” * * * * * THE CLASS OF ’80, FISK UNIVERSITY. Ernest H. Anderson has been elected Principal of the State Normal School for the training of colored teachers, located near Hempstead, Texas. This is the most important position open to a colored teacher in the State. It gives a large field of usefulness for which Mr. Anderson is well qualified. Laurine C. Anderson is in charge of a school in Chapel Hill, Texas. Joseph Anderson is at the head of a school in Leesburg, Camp county, Texas. J. J. Durham is studying medicine at the Meharry Medical College, Nashville. J. E. Porter is teaching in one of the public schools of Jeffersonville, Ind. R. P. Neal is in charge of the school at Humboldt, Tenn. Here is a practical answer to the inquiry that is often raised by our friends, “What do your students do after graduating from college?”—_Fisk Expositor._ * * * * * THE INAUGURAL AND THE SOUTH. President Garfield’s inaugural has very properly given special attention to America’s great problem, the condition of the colored people in the South. His fitly-chosen words may well be repeated: “Bad local Government is certainly a great evil which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctity of the suffrage is more than an evil—it is a crime which if persisted in will destroy the Government itself. Suicide is not a remedy.” As to the remedy, the President says: