We face an unpleasant fact. Receipts in July last year were a little over $42,000. This was unprecedented. It was owing to the special collection taken by the churches July 4th for the debt. Nevertheless, it became a part of our year’s work, and those heavy receipts entered into the total. There are now but two months remaining. Shall our total receipts be allowed to fall behind those of last year? At the end of June we were just about even with last year. But the outlook for July is not encouraging. However, we know that our friends have the money, and we do not believe they are going to allow us to fall behind. We ask them favorably to consider our request that they make a special effort to lift the watermark of our treasury at least as high as it reached last year, and, if possible, lift it up just a little higher. * * * * * In conferring the degree of D.D. upon Rev. Henry Hopkins of Kansas City, and of LL.D. upon Gen. Sam’l C. Armstrong, Principal of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Williams College can hardly be said to have added any special distinction. The college honors itself fully as much as it does these, her honored sons, in thus receiving them within the circle of those marked by an expression of her distinctive regard. Both of them years before had justly won their spurs. The Christian public, a circle wider than any college, and not apt to be at fault in its judgment, either, has for years honored these men because of their works’ sake. We are glad, however, that Williams College, their Alma Mater, has been first to voice this wider public sentiment. The American Missionary Association congratulates the college in what it has done, because the one, Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., is an honored Vice President of the Association, and the other, Gen. Sam’l C. Armstrong, LL.D., is at the head of one of the schools founded and fostered by the Association, and still gloried in as a monumental evidence of the grand work in which it is engaged. * * * * * We call the attention of our readers to Rev. Mr. Pond’s article, “Imperium in Imperio.” It is certainly a pathetic appeal to the Christian women of America from the heathenism that has come to us from China. It gives a new glimpse into our Chinese mission work, and emphasizes its importance. We venture the suggestion that this article would furnish interesting reading at ladies’ missionary meetings. * * * * * Mr. Grady’s famous speech before the New England Society, if things keep going on at the South as they have been, is likely to become infamous. He asserted for substance that the South had come to recognize the fact that in the war the North was right, the South wrong, that the Negro has the fullest protection of our laws and the friendship of our people.