In the spring of 1879 the Executive Committee of this Association, after a careful consideration of Mr. Robert Arthington’s offer of £3,000 for a new mission in the Upper Nile basin, voted to undertake the establishment of the proposed mission on the receipt of a fund of $50,000 for that purpose. During the autumn of the same year the Committee pledged itself that on receipt of £3,000 from Mr. Arthington and a like amount from the British public, “to devote thereto the sum of $20,000, and with the blessing of God and the assistance of the friends of Africa in Great Britain and America, to undertake permanently to sustain that mission.” They felt free to make this pledge, as was stated in the AMERICAN MISSIONARY at the time, “especially as final receipts from the Avery estate have recently come to hand, which are devoted by the donor to the evangelization of the African race in Africa.” The receipts above mentioned amounted to $12,000. Mr. Arthington and the friends in Great Britain have already paid over the £6,000, or about $30,000, apportioned to them, and the Association has entered upon preliminaries looking toward the early establishment of the mission. We still lack about $8,000 for the completion of the fund. In view of this deficiency we consider the unsolicited offer from a distinguished anti-slavery man of $500 for this mission, on condition that $500 more be given by another party for the same object, as both opportune and providential, and we not only urge that the above pledge be secured, but that the entire deficiency be made up by the early autumn, as by that time our missionaries purpose to be on their way to the Upper Nile in Central Africa. * * * * * THE SECOND CALL. REV. JAS. POWELL, CHICAGO. When emancipation summoned the American slaves to freedom, nothing appealed with stronger effect to the sympathies of their friends than their wonderful eagerness for education. They thought that if they only could obtain a knowledge of letters they would also come into possession of the white man’s power and the white man’s privileges. An illusion this, in so far as it held out promise of speedy fulfilment, but a serious fact, nevertheless, in that it points to the only open door through which the Freedmen or their descendants must pass, if they ever do come into possession of that power and those privileges. But illusion as it was, it acted as an inspiration. Under its power, old men and old women, young men and maidens, children and youth, flocked into everything that was called a school for Freedmen.