THE little company which met in Albany Sept. 3, 1846, to found the American Missionary Association, is rapidly passing away. Another of those original founders, Hon. Freeman Walker, of North Brookfield, Mass., at the ripe age of seventy-nine entered into rest July 11, 1883. If less conspicuous than some others, he was not less clear in his convictions nor less staunch in his defense of the liberties and rights of his fellow men. He had large official trusts in town, and State and nation, extending over many years, and was always the incorruptible citizen, as he was the humble Christian. He inherited all the mental keenness, as well as the moral toughness and tenacity of the Puritan ancestry, in the eighth generation of which he stood in regular descent. He had hardly reached his majority before he placed himself in the ranks of the few who then stood on the side of the slave. His heart and his hand, his purse and his home were at the service of the fugitive in the days of slavery, and since the emancipation as fully at the service of the freedmen. The Association has had no firmer friend than Mr. Walker, and few, in the measure of their means, have more liberally contributed to its treasury. He belonged to a generation of heroes and martyrs—men of daring courage and of mighty faith. They were honored of God, and are now coming to receive the homage of mankind. * * * * * _Sixty Years in the Harvest Field_ is the title of a biographical sketch of Havilah Mowry, Jr., published by A. S. Barnes & Co. The book contains 360 pages, and is valuable by way of suggestion as to how laymen may employ their leisure even in the humble walks of life in bringing sinners to Christ. Mr. Mowry, after working as a blacksmith for a series of years in Connecticut, entered upon service as city missionary at Brooklyn, N.Y., where he labored for many years with marked success. The book is worthy of a place in Sunday-school libraries, and fitted to promote evangelistic work. * * * * * A GIFT BY A BOHEMIAN BOY. We publish below a letter from Dr. Alden, Secretary of the American Board, to District Secretary Woodworth, of Boston. It is a touching fact that a boy in that far-off land should remember the black children of our own country. It shows how strangely the impulse of Christian sympathy strikes from land to land, and suggests the propriety of making this humble gift of the utmost value to him that gives and those who receive. We, therefore, propose, as a simple method of reaching that object, that any person or Sunday-school sending us $10 for the purpose shall receive one of these pieces of money. The donors to this object will receive the pieces in the order of application. If more gifts than the ten are forwarded, we will return them to the donors or appropriate them by permission to the colored children of the South.