It is right, in this connection, that our friends should know that the Executive Officers of the Association have very earnestly co-operated with them to secure this happy result. Appropriations have been made after the most careful scrutiny. Economy has been practiced at every possible point. The knife has been applied until, in numerous instances, the quick has signaled its pain. New work, urgently inviting, has been refused. Regret and perplexity have been experienced because of inability to meet what seemed to be absolute necessities. We trust that during the coming year, while continuing to be no less careful than we have been, we may be able to do some of the things that during the past year we were obliged to leave undone. But we must beg our friends to remember that this can be only as our receipts are increased. The small balance with which we set out is not much to build upon. It will be quickly swallowed up in meeting claims that have been postponed. The outcome calls upon the friends of the Association to prepare for a year of more extended work and more liberal benefactions than ever before. The standard raised by the National Council in Chicago should be kept steadily in view—$350,000 from the churches for the prosecution of our work! * * * * * It is with profound sorrow that we record the death of our honored President, Hon. Wm. B. Washburn. He was born in Winchendon, Mass., in 1820, and died in Springfield, Mass., Oct. 5. He was attending the annual meeting of the American Board, of which he was a corporate member. While sitting on the platform of the City Hall, in which the meeting was held, he quietly and suddenly and unexpectedly fell asleep in death. “He was not, for God took him.”