We are encouraged by the request for the renewal of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for 1883, and by the subscriptions already received. The price is 50 cents. We aim to secure subscriptions sufficient to meet the cost of the magazine, and this is a reminder to such of our readers as desire to assist us in this object. We do what we can to make it worth the price asked. Nearly all the articles it contains are written expressly for the MISSIONARY, and pains is taken to give variety and freshness to each number. Upon annual application, the following persons are entitled to receive the AMERICAN MISSIONARY free: life members, ministers whose churches take an annual collection for the Association, Superintendents of Sabbath Schools, and donors who contribute in a year not less than five dollars. * * * * * We wish to congratulate the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church on her growing helpfulness to the colored people. A recent and most timely gift in this direction was that of Dr. Haygood, as the agent for the disbursing of the John F. Slater Fund. His broad liberality, his intimate knowledge of the Southern field, and his honest impartiality make him just the man for that place. We anticipate a most effective administration of the Slater Fund under his care. Another event in the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was the inauguration, in May last, at the General Conference, of a plan for founding a school of high grade for the training of teachers and preachers among the colored people. A new and crowning impulse to this was given at the recent meeting of the North Georgia Conference, in the appointment of Dr. Morgan Galloway as the President of the new institution, which is to be located in Augusta, Ga., and named “Paine College.” All honor to our Southern Methodist friends for these movements in so important a matter, and all success to them in these and every other like endeavor, which their hearts may prompt them to plan and their hands to execute. REVIVALS HOW AND WHEN, is the title of a very timely and useful volume by Rev. Wm. W. Newell, D.D. The following subjects with others are discussed: Why use the word revival, Evangelistic meetings, Household revivals, Bible class and Sabbath-school revivals, Revival preaching, Fixed laws for the promotion of revivals, Temperance revivals, When should we have revivals. Dr. Newell speaks from a rich experience of many years and enforces his views with copious incidents and pertinent quotations from the words of eminent men. The whole subject is discussed in a clear, comprehensive and interesting manner. The book was prepared to help ministers and laymen, and contains an abundance of suggestive and available information. There is no work more dear to this Association than revival work, and no volume has recently come to our knowledge apparently more fitted to promote it. * * * * * WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE AGE.