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We acknowledge among our exchanges, the Fisk Herald, published at Nashville; the Atlanta Bulletin; the Olio, of Straight University; the Tougaloo Quarterly; the Head and Hand, of Le Moyne Normal Institute at Memphis; the Helping Hand, of Sherwood, Tenn.; Our Work, of Talladega College; the Howard University Reporter, of Washington; the Word Carrier, of Santee Agency, and Iapi Oahe, of Santee Agency; also the Christian Aid, published by our church in Dallas; the Beach Record, (occasional) by our school in Savannah.

Several of these papers are models of their kind, publishing original articles written by the students and professors, and printed by the students with superior typographical skill.  As indicators of progress, they are full {91} of interest, apart from the items of local school and church intelligence with which they are freighted.

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We commend to our readers, “The Missionary Review of the World,” edited jointly by Rev. J.M.  Sherwood, D.D., of New York, and Rev. A.T.  Pierson, D.D., of Philadelphia.

One rises from its pages as if he had been breathing Christian ozone.  The editorials are upon living topics and issues, and are vigorously presented.  The “Review” sweeps its vision over the entire world and it not only sees, but knows how to tell what it sees.  If the high standard of literary excellence so far sustained can be continuously held, we shall have a magazine of missions which will be the peer of our best literary monthlies in quality and interest.

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We congratulate the Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society on the acceptance of its appointment of Rev. Geo. M. Boynton as its Secretary.  We have known him as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, as editor of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, as a pastor, as a secretary of Associations and Conferences, as a wise counsellor and genial brother.  We regard him as eminently fitted for the place to which he has been called.  To Brother Boynton we extend most cordially a welcome to the honorable, the fraternity of the Secretaries.

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The fifth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association, written by Mr. James B. Harrison, is a strong and valuable contribution to the literature of Indian rights and wrongs, which should be considered by every friend of the Red Man.  Respecting the orders of the Indian office at Washington which abridge the liberty of religious teaching, this report characterizes them as “unintelligent, arbitrary, despotic and unstatesmanlike, merely a blow at missionary work.  There is no reason to suppose that a single Indian anywhere will ever learn ten words more of English by reason of these orders.  There is, indeed, no provision made by the Government