The Peabody fund and its judicious disbursement at the South is doing its work of palliating feeling. Miss Willard’s tour of temperance lecturing through the South was a hopeful revelation of harmonious sentiment. Dr. Mayo’s eminently successful educational visitation was in the same line. Then it is also clearly manifest that the scheme of the North for aiding the South in the education of the colored people is coming to be recognized there-away as one of pure philanthropy and patriotism. The testimony of Dr. Haygood in his book, “Our Brother in Black,” to this effect, is but the expression of not a little of latent sentiment. He pronounces “immortal honor” upon these teachers. He says that without such service the South would be uninhabitable by this time. Our teachers and preachers, dwelling there from year to year, and returning North betimes, become interpreters of the mutual and improving good feeling. They command respect at the South, they retain affectionate regard at the North, and so become a bond of union between the two sections. More and more this process will go on with happiest results. The National Cotton Exposition to be held this fall at Atlanta, upon a gigantic scale, will be another mighty loom for weaving the fabric of national good-will. We be one people, with one English inheritance of language and history, of character and civilization, with a common possession of Revolutionary glory and of pride in our national development. We must let the dead bury their dead. We must push on in all proper ways to remove prejudice and to restore confidence. Service for our common country in the way of evangelization and of righteous civil administration, will be one of the most effective aids in healing the Nation’s wound. * * * * * A SUGGESTION WORTH PASSING ALONG. After the presentation of the cause of the American Missionary Association recently to a church in Connecticut, the pastor made the following suggestion to his people: “We have now had this great subject before us. We shall never, probably, see it more clearly. We shall never, probably, feel its importance more. What shall we do about it? I was going to announce a contribution for next Sabbath; but perhaps it will rain; perhaps you will not be here; perhaps you will forget. Besides, I notice that church plates do not hold a great deal. We make them a small business. We ought to do more for this cause. We want to do more. And so, if I can find two or three young ladies ready for the work, I will send them to your houses. Be ready! Look the matter all over, and do as good a thing as you can. After that, perhaps, we will pick up the stray bits when Sunday comes.” It is pleasant to add that the pastor found canvassers without difficulty, and that about three times the amount usually given by plate collections was gathered.