zation; that they should not become
office seekers, and should abandon at once and forever, the expectation
of aid for them as colored people, and that above all, that which is
most vital to them for this world and the next, is love to God and man,
and that the Bible is the best source of light and the foundation of
their surest hopes.

These are wise counsels and we shall endeavor to press them upon all,
and especially upon those whom we shall aid out of this fund. We
believe that Mr. Hand would deplore it as the greatest calamity that
could befall his gift, if it should in any way pauperize the colored
people or take from them their sense of the need--the essential need of
self-reliance and self-help--if it should tempt them to an idle life,
to seeking after office or to become beggars for help from Government
or from any other source. This gift, in the intention of the donor, and
in that of the Association that is to administer it, is that it may be
a stimulus and encouragement to personal energy and enterprise.

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PILGRIM'S LETTERS.

Bits of History.

Rev. Joseph E. Roy, D.D., author of the neatly printed volume bearing
this title, is a man of quick and accurate observation. In the days
when "Missionary Campaigns" were in vogue, and the representatives of
the several Congregational Societies held missionary meetings from town
to town, Dr. Roy, in an hour or two after our arrival at a place, would
contrive to pick up so many facts about the history of the town, its
distinguished men of the past, its ancient church edifices, etc., etc.,
as to surprise and perhaps enlighten the pastor and some of the people,
as he skillfully introduced these facts into the opening of his
address. Dr. Roy had an equal facility in writing down his observations
in graphic and vigorous English. What some other men would labor in
penning with frequent hesitation and erasures, he would dash off
_currente calamo_. It has fallen to the lot of Dr. Roy to have had
another advantage. He has been a pastor for several years, and
subsequently a Secretary alternately of the A.M.A. and the A.H.M.S. for
nearly thirty years. His duties have called him into all parts of the
United States, and especially into the West and South. In all his
journeys he has jotted down his rapid and yet careful observations, and
the Letters of Pilgrim in the _Congregationalist_, the _Independent_
and the _Advance_, have become a