The Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church recently opened a University for white students in Chattanooga, Tenn. Some colored students applied for admission. They were refused, but this was not the end. A colored minister, Rev. B. H. Johnson, pastor of one of the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Chattanooga, meeting Professor Caulkins of the university in a store, offered him his hand, but as it was a black hand the professor would not accept it. That would have been a recognition of “social equality.” The colored brother felt, and felt justly, that he had been insulted. When knowledge of the insult reached the Executive Committee of the Freedmen’s Aid Society, whose funds in large part built and support the university, steps were immediately taken to learn the exact facts in the case. They moved cautiously and wisely, that no wrong should be done and that no unjust judgment should be pronounced, and when they had made a thorough examination of the whole case, heard from both sides and from all sides, they voted that through the trustees of the university the professor be asked to resign at once. The Executive Committee has done right and should have the cordial backing of the entire Methodist Church. A mistake was made when the colored students were refused admission. No matter if they were hired by wicked white men to go and force the issue. All the more should an issue be met when forced by such people. Better that a millstone be hanged around the neck of the institution and that it be drowned in the midst of the sea than that it be made an occasion of offense to one of Christ’s little ones. Christ is in the world in the person of these little ones, and he who insults them insults _Him_, and he who insults Him insults all who love Him. * * * * * We take the following extracts from a letter received by Dr. Strieby from our good friend, Mr. Robert Arthington, of Leeds, England. As a little mirror, showing “ourselves as ithers see us,” it has special significance. We have often thought that the indifference of the Christian people of this country to the question of the salvation of the Indians was a sad spectacle for our brethren in other lands to look upon. Would that the churches might be made to feel this: “DEAR DR. STRIEBY—I trust the ‘missionary laugh’ will, by the great mercy of God, ‘never come on the air by my side.’ Oh, that it might be so with all real Christians.