The Old North State held its fifth annual meeting on the first four days of May, at Dudley. This was a place at which the colored people, during the Ku-Klux terror, "refugeed," making there a stand for life--the hunted creatures at bay. Early the A. M. A. opened here its Mission School and Church. Difficulties, peculiar to the heterogeneous material thus gathered, have gradually been overcome, until now the gospel is in the ascendant as an assimilating force. The church and school under Rev. J. E. B. Jewett and his wife, of Pepperell, Mass., are in a high degree of prosperity. The New England Academy Principal seems especially adapted to these children of toil. The Association had the round of discussions, essays, devotional meetings. The National Council and the annual meeting of the A. M. A. were duly reported. The new Confession of Faith was heartily approved. A memorial service for the late Rev. Islay Walden, a native of North Carolina, was a marked feature of the occasion. The great work he had accomplished for his people in so short a time was instructive and encouraging to the other young ministers, and to the young people of the Assembly. Mrs. Elenora Walden continues the school work of her husband, greatly confided in by the people. Rev. Zachariah Simmons takes up the pastoral work. Three delegates from Strieby and Troy had _walked_ 130 miles for want of money to pay the railroad fare. Three new school-house churches were reported--those of Pekin, Oaks and Hillsboro, the last two having been dedicated by the Field Superintendent on the Saturday and Sunday previous. Sermons were preached by Revs. D. D. Dodge, G. S. Smith (Moderator), J. E. Roy and Z. Simmons. Deacon Henry Clay Jones, of Raleigh, made a flaming temperance speech, claiming that 60,000 Prohibition voters held the balance of power, which, as a third party, could and should overmaster the 100,000 majority that went against home protection. * * * * * REMEMBER THE POOR. When Paul and Barnabas were about to set forth to labor among the heathen, Cephas, James and John gave them the right hand of fellowship with a charge included in these words: "Only that they would remember the poor." How they should do it had been indicated by Him who said of his own labors "the poor have the gospel preached to them." The expression "the poor" is comprehensive. All human wants relate to it. The poverty of some, however, is more complete than that of others, and the poorest have early, if not the first, claim to attention. The Pauls and Barnabases of our times may justly listen to appeals which arise from the following conditions: