And now she must go to visit the old family. Though the master and mistress are gone, in their place is left the daughter, whom she had nursed upon her own breast, and who is now married to a Northern man. Old times and scenes and friends are talked over, but soon she gives vent to the pent-up sorrows of the mother’s heart. With all the intensity of a great nature, she told of the grief at her separation from Rebecca. It was as though she had dropped blood from her heart; she went weeping and mourning every where. “I wept as I was making the bread, and _them that eat the most of my bread eat the most of my heart_.” So David had said: “Thou feedest them with the bread of tears.” The old colored people told her she must pray and the Lord would remove all that. In her prayer it seemed as though there were deep waters and high mountains between her and her child, and that the Lord would have to send men and remove the mountains, and make a way over the waters so that she could come to her child; and now He had done it all, and brought her to tell her story to the remnant of the old household. The young mistress, while her husband walks the floor in deep and mute emotion, herself bursts into tears, and as her only relief, declares: “My father was such a man that he never would have done that thing if he had not got broke.” “Oh,” said the sable matron, now rising up from the crushing of her womanhood, “I never thought anything about what _caused_ it.” As Rebecca came to freedom she tried to learn, but her work for bread and the clumsiness of her unused powers were so great, she desisted, and now her Bible is read to her by the children. Will you who have heard this true story help the American Missionary Association with your pennies and prayers, in their work of educating these poor people? * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1881. * * * * * MAINE, $132.04. Auburn. Mrs. B. J. $1.00 Bangor. First Cong. Ch. 19.37 Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.60 Brunswick. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00 Camden. “A Friend” 1.00 Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 Kennebunk Port. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $7.70; First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.50 13.20 North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.18 Orono. Cong. Ch. 1.73 Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $6; Infant Class, Cong. S. S., $2 8.00 Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.96 Waterford. S. E. Hersey 2.00 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $446.29.