We alluded in a recent number of the MISSIONARY to the attractive advertisements of railroad and immigrant companies in the South, and we expressed the fear that many colored people might find the change to be disappointing.  But the process goes on, and the rich bottom-lands in the State of Mississippi are attracting many hundreds and thousands of new settlers.  Perhaps there is no better place to which they can go, for there are no better lands in the South.  The great point is whether these people shall be herded together in rude homes, tilling the soil without skill, and rearing their children in ignorance and vice.  It is the part of Christian wisdom and the duty of the Christian churches of this land to see that the people in this densely-packed and fertile region shall be promptly met with the means of Christian education.  Our school at Tougaloo should be enabled to meet in some degree the opportunity it has to prepare and furnish preachers and teachers for this growing population; and schools and churches should be multiplied to meet the emergency.

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NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.

BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J.  RYDER.

Nothing stimulates to good deeds more effectively than good deeds themselves.  I copy the following notice, which was circulated on a neatly printed sheet among the members of a certain church in Boston: 

The “Felice” circle of “King’s Daughters” will hold a sale for the benefit of the Williamsburg Academy, established for the education of the “Mountain Whites” in Kentucky, on Friday, March 21, from 8 to 10 P.M., and on Saturday, March 22, from 3 to 10 P.M., at Miss Maxwell’s, 37 Allen Street, Boston.  Admission 10 cents.

The enthusiastic leader of this circle of “King’s Daughters” thought that possibly she might raise $30 and so constitute one of their number a Life Member of the American Missionary Association.  Imagine our surprise and delight when, as the result of this effort, $125 were brought in, as their splendid offering to this work!

Take another fact of unusual interest in the religious life in New England.  Five leading pastors here in Boston chose a particular Sabbath, upon which they would each preach upon the Negro Problem.  Several sermons were reported at length in our daily journals, and aroused much interest and comment.  One found its way down into the South, and was commented upon by a Southern editor in true Southern style.  Hard words were used with the recklessness that characterizes Southern editors, and often Northern as well.  The funny thing about it was, that two gentlemen of the same name, who are both ministers and reside in Boston, were confused in this comment.  The one, who had recently been South, but who did not preach the sermon, was read a severe lecture, because after partaking of the hospitality of the Southern people, he had spoken in so severe terms of them.  It was