There is considerable interest in Southern white churches over missionary and educational work among Negroes. The subject was discussed at a recent Bible institute in the University of Tennessee and the Atlanta _Constitution_ has had several editorials. * * * * * Bishop John Wesley Smith of the African Zion Church is dead. * * * * * Bishop T. N. Morrison, of the Episcopal Church, says: “I would impress upon those interested in missionary work my belief that there is more of a field for good and advantageous work among the Negroes of the United States than among the people of foreign countries and I will urge that missionaries’ work begin at home.” * * * * * The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Episcopal Church workers among colored people was held this year in the city of Cleveland, O. * * * * * SOCIAL UPLIFT. A congress, which promises to be one of the most influential of our time, is to be held in London July 26-29, 1911, in the central building of the University of London. The list of those who have extended to it their moral support is most imposing. Among the supporters, who hail from no less than fifty countries, are over twenty-five presidents of Parliaments, the majority of the members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of the delegates to the Second Hague Conference, twelve British governors and eight British premiers, over forty colonial bishops, some hundred and thirty professors of international law, the leading anthropologists and sociologists, the officers and the majority of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and other distinguished personages. The list of the writers of papers includes eminent representatives of over twenty civilizations, and every paper referring to a particular people is prepared by some one of high standing belonging to it. * * * * * The Rhode Island Union of Colored Women numbers 12 clubs--one in Pawtucket, three in Newport and eight in Providence. Each of these clubs is doing excellent work in its own way, striving to solve the problems nearest home. But while the local club has its particular function, the demands of the union upon each individual organization is equally great. The work is divided into four general departments--parents, village improvement, hero and race library. One or two members from each club is represented in each department. * * * * * The Associated Charities of Lexington, Ky., are giving talks to colored people on consumption. * * * * *