Our receipts for the first four months of the present fiscal year, ending Jan. 31, 1883, amounted to $85,555.11, an increase of $1,661.72 over the amount received for the corresponding months of the previous year. The legacies, however, this year, have amounted to $25,141.83, against $9,191.72 for the year before, showing a falling off in collections and donations of $14,288.39. We desire, therefore, to remind our readers that the enlargement so greatly needed and so deeply felt by the friends who attended our last annual meeting and reviewed the work of the Association cannot be accomplished unless the receipts are greatly increased. * * * * * We devote considerable space in this issue to a report of a week’s work by our lady missionaries. We believe that what they are doing is vital to the welfare of the families from which many of our students come, and wish to commend the work and workers to the prayers and sympathies of the patrons of this Association. * * * * * COST OF LADY MISSIONARIES. We sincerely hope that those who read the record of a Week’s Work by our lady missionaries will carefully consider the value of these labors, and the importance of the question as to their duty in aiding to supply the vast want that exists at the South for this kind of Christian service. It takes four hundred and fifty dollars to provide for a lady missionary for one year, including traveling expenses, board and a moderate salary. Are there not some societies of ladies who will pledge us the amount needful, and by so doing have a missionary of their own in the field? Are there not individuals who will promise as much for the same purpose? We shall be most happy to answer inquiries relating to details. * * * * * The pastor at Hampton writes: “Every night for the last two weeks we have been having meetings for prayer, and the whole school has been deeply moved. Many have already confessed their love for Christ, and there are many now seeking Him. General Armstrong and all the teachers are thoroughly in earnest in the matter. The General made a most earnest appeal to the students last evening, in which he said that nothing like it had been known in the history of the school.” * * * * * We have received intelligence from Rev. D. K. Flickinger, D.D., who has made in Liverpool, London and Glasgow preliminary inquiries relating to the John Brown steamer. It was his purpose on reaching Sierra Leone to learn definitely as to the necessary capacity of the boat for the use of the mission. He hoped also to be able to conclude contract with the Governor of Sierra Leone for carrying mails and for doing other business which would be a source of income to the mission without interfering with its special work. * * * * *