We have just published Pamphlet No. 7 of our series, containing the address of President E. H. Fairchild, D.D., at Worcester, on “God’s Designs for and through the Negro Race,” and “Missions the Work of this Era,” by Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D. Copies will be sent free on application. We have received recent letters of a hopeful character from our Mendi Mission. Rev. J. M. Williams, after a preaching tour among the native villages, returned suffering from a serious illness from which he appears to be recovering. A neat tombstone has been placed over the remains of Rev. Kelly M. Kemp at the Good Hope Station. * * * * * Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co. have done good service in publishing “Around the World Tour of Missions,” by Mr. W. F. Bainbridge. The book purports to give a universal survey of Christian Missions, and contains in its appendix a list of missionary societies, home and foreign. The amount of information in its 582 pages is a valuable contribution to the missionary literature of the day. * * * * * A friend sending a donation to constitute a life member says: “I believe that this makes twenty-six life members which I have made during the last eight or ten years. Were you to ask me to-day to give you the full sum, $780, I could not do it, but as it came by $30 at a time, I have not felt it, but have been made happy in making others to rejoice by a small amount yearly given to your society. Why not urge others to adopt some such system of giving?” * * * * * We publish elsewhere an account of the burning of the Congregational church and school building of the Emerson Institute, Mobile, Ala. The origin of the fire is indicated by the following offer of reward: “$300 reward. The undersigned will pay the above reward of $300 for the arrest, conviction and punishment of any person or persons who set fire to any of the following buildings, to wit: Residence of John F. Cotham, house of Annie C. Sullivan, house belonging to estate of Boulo, Congregational Church building. A. P. BUSH, President Mobile Board of Underwriters.” The school was enjoying a winter of unusual prosperity at the time of the fire, and as will be seen by the communication referred to it has made temporary arrangements for the continuation of its work. * * * * *