The Rev. G.W. McClellan, a graduate of Fisk University and recently a student at Hartford Theological Seminary, has formed a "_Boys' Christian Association_" in connection with his church work in Louisville. The boys meet on Friday evenings for literary exercises, and the following are some of the questions debated this winter. 1. _Resolved_, That Washington was a greater general than Grant. 2. _Resolved_, That capital punishment ought to be abolished. 3. _Resolved_, That strikes are right and necessary. 4. _Resolved_, That boys, as a rule, after graduation from the High School, should go to College. * * * * * EXTRACTS FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS. Question. _What was the Dred Scott decision?_ Answer. "The Dred Scott decision declared that slave owners could carry their slaves into any territory except their own." {156} Another Answer. "Dred Scott decision was, that protected tariff should be kept out of the territories." Question. _What are ocean currents?_ Answer. "The Ocean currant is a celebrated meal-storm on the coast of Norway." * * * * * A STRAW. A few days since, there was an examination of candidates for positions as teachers in the New Orleans public schools. Four of our Straight University girls presented themselves, three graduates and one an undergraduate, and all passed the examination, receiving respectively 94, 93, 92 and 87 per cent., and three were at once given good positions. * * * * * IN MEMORIAM. Another good man has gone to his reward. Rev. Geo. J. Tillotson, who has perpetuated his name in the Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas, died March 29th, at his home in Wethersfield, Conn. His useful life was spent in that State. He was born in Farmington, Feb. 5, 1805, was graduated at Yale in 1825, studied theology in the Yale Seminary one year and at Andover for two years, completing his theological studies in 1830. He had several long pastorates, which he filled with great fidelity and success. From 1876 he was not employed as a pastor, but devoted himself with great assiduity to various modes of promoting the Redeemer's kingdom. He had practised economy and had the means to give, and this he did with a discriminating, and yet a liberal, hand. To the founding of the Tillotson Institute, he gave not only from his own resources, but devoted his time and energies to collecting funds from his friends. But his benefactions were not confined to one object; he had a broad sympathy for every good cause. He was a man of genial temperament, and closed his useful career after a short illness in the 84th year of his age. * * * * * THE RADICAL FORCES OF CHRISTIANITY, AS EXHIBITED IN THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. BY REV. J.W. COOPER, D.D.