We recall to our readers words spoken by Prof. W. A. Crogman, himself a fine specimen of the Christian scholar and thinker such as his race is capable of producing under Christian training. We quote from an address he made two years ago Thanksgiving Day, before the Atlanta University, of which school he is a graduate: “If I were asked to-day what one thing since the close of the war has contributed most to the permanent prosperity of the South, I unhesitatingly answer, Christian charity. When the victorious army of the North was passing in review before President Johnson in the streets of Washington, another army, vastly inferior in numbers, imbued with a different spirit, and armed with no other weapons than the Bible and the spelling-book, was marching under the eye of God down into this very field from which Grant and Sherman had but recently withdrawn. Silently came they into the field. There was no heralding of their approach, no display. Hopefully came they into the field, notwithstanding they knew that to the majority of the people their presence would be obnoxious. They came with faith in God and love for man. They came, impelled by Christian duty and patriotism, to wage a new war against the more deadly enemies of the Republic—ignorance and vice. I am thankful to-day for the pen of Lincoln and for the sword of Grant, but more thankful, by far, for the patient ‘schoolma’am’ who taught the negro his letters and set a million of us to reading.” Let our Roll of Honor be studied, and let its history and memory be made known among the churches. It is abundantly worthy, and in results will repay with rich reward. * * * * * “While practicing law a number of years ago,” says Judge Tourgee, “I had a peculiar will case. An old lady who was a slaveholder, dying, bequeathed her colored man, John, and her dusky maid, Jane, who sustained to each other the relation of husband and wife, to the trustees of the church, to be used as far as possible for the ‘glory of God.’ I was curious to know what course was taken, and upon investigation found that, after meditation and prayer, the pious trustees sold their living legacy at auction, and with the proceeds sent a missionary to China.” * * * * * The New England Society of New York celebrated Forefathers’ Day December 22d. There was one feature of this anniversary of special interest to the readers of the MISSIONARY. It was a speech by Mr. H. W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta _Constitution_. Mr. Grady is a representative Southerner of the progressive type. His theme was The New South, and he handled it in such a way as to elicit the heartiest applause and the warmest commendation from those who heard him. Of course he could not speak on such a theme without having a good deal to say about the negro. We give the following extracts: