‒The Protestant Episcopal Church sustains 394 missionaries in its home field, of whom 52 labor among the Indians. ‒The Presbytery of West Virginia, although itself a weak Home Missionary Presbytery, has ordained three ministers for Alaska. * * * * * THE CHINESE. ‒The Chinese government has decided to increase the tax on foreign opium and impose a tax on native opium. ‒A Chinese ship loaded with tea recently arrived in London. It is the first that ever reached that port. ‒Rev. H. V. Noyes, of the Presbyterian mission at Canton, has prepared a Concordance of the New Testament in Chinese. ‒There were 18 graduates of the Scientific Department of the Training School at Kioto, Japan, and all remained to pursue the study of theology. * * * * * WORTHY OF RECORD. * * * * * In the May number of the magazine for 1881, was a picture and a description of Christ’s Church, in Wilmington, N.C. We intimated at that time that the same generous friend who had built the church intended still larger outlays and improvements at the same point, an account of which might be expected at a future time. That time has come, and we proceed to complete the picture and the description of Hon. James J. H. Gregory’s noble gift to the Wilmington mission. _First, the School-House._‒This was, originally, a wooden two-story building, 84 × 30 feet, one end of which was occupied by the mission family, and the other by the schools. It would accommodate, by crowding, 150 pupils. This building has now been completely remodeled, and the whole of it devoted to schools and mission work. It has been flanked by two wings, each 54 × 16, two stories high, having a front of 116 feet, with room for 300 or 350 pupils. The lower story contains three school rooms, first and second primary and grammar; also room for lady missionary, in which she holds sewing classes, prayer-meetings, and deals out books, papers and clothing to the needy. [Illustration: CHURCH, HOME AND SCHOOL, WILMINGTON, N.C.] The upper story contains high-school room, principal’s room, assistant’s recitation room, and a hall capable of seating between three and four hundred, and which can be used, if necessary, for a still higher grade of school in the future. _Second, the Mission House._‒The house is a wooden frame in a brick “jacket,” the main part three stories high, and each story containing four rooms fifteen feet square, with an open fire-place in each. The L has nine rooms, exclusive of storeroom, pantry and wash-room, the latter of which is in the basement. The roofs are flat, that on the main building having, beneath the eaves, eighteen ventilators, which insure fresh air for the house and coolness for the chambers. The house is finished throughout in pitch-pine, merely varnished, no paint being used inside. The window sashes and the door frames are of cypress, and with care will last a century.