I am glad to say that the religious state of the Lincoln Memorial Church at present is good. It was organized the 10th of last January with eleven members. In April the Lord poured out a special blessing upon us, the result of which was eight converts. The church has doubled its membership since its organization. In this revival there was a little girl converted about nine years old, and an aged mother about seventy-five. We have had only one admitted to the church by letter; ten on confession of faith. There is quite a large temperance work here carried on by Mrs. Babcock. This temperance society is known as the Lincoln Mission Band of Hope. Our Sunday-school is very large in the winter, but it thins out in the summer. The largest attendance during any time through the winter was 530. The Lincoln Mission building in which our church worships has been greatly improved. The large hall has been re-plastered and painted inside and out. We have sent two from the Lincoln Mission to Howard University. This church also sent $4.06 to the American Missionary Association. * * * * * HAMPTON, VA. REV. H. B. FRISSELL. There have been admitted to church membership in Bethesda Chapel during the year 31 persons—28 on profession of their faith and three by letter. Of these, 15 were Indians, one white, and the remainder colored students. With the growth of the school the congregation at the chapel has so increased as to make it necessary to add another wing to the building. Two prayer meetings have been kept up by the colored students, one on the Sabbath and one on a week day evening, the attendance and interest being well sustained. The Indians have their own prayer meetings, where they take part in their own tongue. They manifest a most earnest desire to know the Bible, and spend much time in reading and studying it. Most of the students of the school have been enrolled as members of the temperance society during the past year. Considerable work has been done in the country about. One of the students organized a temperance society in the village of Hampton, and several interesting meetings have been held. The subject of local option is likely to come up in the fall, and the society hopes to make itself felt on the right side. There has been an average attendance of 300 in Sunday-school. Forty students have been engaged in the Sunday-schools in the vicinity, three as superintendents and the remainder as teachers. One of the schools where the students have become interested has increased in numbers from 40 to over 200. Thirty Bible students go out from the school on Sunday afternoons to read to the old people. They are everywhere received with a hearty welcome by those who have been deprived of the privileges which their children enjoy.