donor
meant it to be--a help in lifting the heavy load, to be responded to by
heartier co-operation and larger contributions.

A Helping Hand Extended to the South.

How strange are the links that sometimes bind events together, and how
obvious are often the compensations that Providence renders to faithful
work.

In 1846 a society was formed in the North distinguished mainly by its
sympathy for the slave. But slavery then ruled the North as well as the
South, and this society was made to feel the rod of its power. Some of
its founders learned that rewards had been offered for their abduction;
others suffered from the violence of mobs; and its missionaries in the
South were imprisoned or banished. When the slaves were freed, the
society went swiftly and energetically to their help, and has sent to
them thousands of consecrated teachers and has spent millions of money
for their relief. Its work is now so manifestly beneficial that it is
welcomed by both the blacks and the whites in the South.

At the date of the founding of this society, a Northern man in the
prime of life was carrying on a prosperous mercantile business in a
Southern city. He had already been in that city nearly thirty years and
was honored and trusted. When the war came his property was
jeopardized, but was afterwards returned to him in full. And now comes
the Providential compensation. That wealth earned in the South, lost
and then restored, is given back to the South to educate and assist the
emancipated slaves. The giver, now in the 88th year of his age, finds
it the joy and crown of his life to be thus not only a benefactor to
the poor blacks, but to furnish a marked illustration of the fraternal
feeling which the North cherishes towards the South. And may we not add
that Providence in guiding this noble man to select this once
persecuted society as the almoner of his bounty, is giving it a token
of the Divine approbation for its faithfulness to the oppressed slave.

A Message to the Colored People.

It is due to Mr. Hand to say that he is much more interested in the
good that shall be done to the colored people by his gift, than he is
in any public notices of himself. His letters to us discourage such
notices, but he writes most warmly urging us to press upon the colored
people the all-controlling thought, that they must be the chief and
most efficient agents in the great work of their own advancement in
industry, temperance and civili