We were pleased to have a call on the 20th of May from Rev. D. K. Flickinger, the Missionary Secretary of the United Brethren in Christ, who had just returned from a tour of inspection at the Shengay Mission in the Sherbro country of West Africa, bringing with him the Rev. Mr. Gomer, a colored man who is the local Superintendent of the mission. We gained from them much valuable information concerning our own mission among that people. It is wonderful how much exposure that Secretary and his Superintendent have been able to endure in that climate. We bless God for the great work which their church through them is doing for West Africa. * * * * * The faculty and students of the Wesleyan Female College at Macon, Ga., on the 12th of May celebrated the birthday of their benefactor, Mr. George I. Seney. They sent him a telegraphic greeting, which he acknowledged. They had music and poetry and also an oration by Colonel Hardeman, one of the first orators of the State. * * * * * The _Christian Recorder_, the official organ of the African M. E. Church, thus pronounces its benediction upon Mr. John F. Slater, changing the Spanish Bishop’s cursings upon liberal journalists into blessings: “May Almighty God bless John F. Slater with the perpetual blessings pronounced upon His saints and His angels! May he live with the martyrs and the confessors! May the Lord judge him as he judged Moses and David and Hezekiah! May the earth preserve him alive! Let him be blessed day and night, sleeping and waking, in eating, in drinking, and in playing, when he speaks and when he keeps silence! May not his eyes be blinded, his ears be deaf, and his tongue be dumb! Blessed be every member of his body! Let him be blessed from to-day and forever! May his sepulchre be that of the saints! May no famished wolves prey upon his corpse and may his eternal company be that of Michael and his angels!” * * * * * THE NEW LAW AND OUR WORK.