ay entitle them to all the felicity of the spirits of
just men made perfect, but if it is the rule of the "happy land, far,
far away" that a black saint is just as good as a white one, how much
more rational it would be for them to prefer annihilation to
immortality.

_Brooklyn Daily Eagle._

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PARAGRAPHS.

We would continue to remind pastors and churches of our Leaflets, which
we will be happy to furnish, on application, to those taking collections
for our Association.

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The _Daily Standard-Union_, of Brooklyn, is a good judge. It says:

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY for April, published by the American Missionary
Association, New York, is full of information useful and edifying to all
interested in domestic missions.

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The "Student's Letter" found on another page is worth attention. The
writer, Rev. Spencer Snell, gives a modest and yet vivid picture of his
struggles for an education, and he is now--we say it for him, as he does
not--the able and acceptable pastor of our growing church in Birmingham,
Alabama. We wish in a quiet way to suggest to our friends in the North
that "it pays" to spend money to educate such men.

Rev. James Wharton, the evangelist, who has been efficiently preaching
to the American Missionary churches in the South this winter, has left
this country for England, where he will remain until the first of
October, when he will return again to his specific work in which the
churches have been greatly blessed. The churches which he has visited,
and which have added to their numbers through his ministration, are
Louisville, Ky., Sherwood, Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., Athens,
Florence, Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., Jackson and Tougaloo, Miss., and
New Orleans, La.

Many prayers will go with him across the sea, and many welcomes will
greet him on his return.

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SOUTHERN ECHOES.

PRAYERS OF WOMEN AT THE MEETING OF FAREWELL TO A MISSIONARY.

"O! Lord, thou knowest how I love her. Thou knowest how I have run to
her in every trouble, as a chicken does to its mother."

"O! Lord, you know what she has been to me in the greatest trouble I
ever had. You know I think more of her than of any being in the whole
world, except my husband. Will you please to be with her when she gets
ready for the train, and when she goes from the house to