“If some benevolent friend in the North would send us twenty-five copies of Stalker’s Life of Christ, it would be of great help in this work.”

Information respecting a very interesting revival of religion comes to us from Sherwood, Tenn.

Increased religious interest is reported from Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.

The teachers in the Normal School at Lexington are taking new courage in their work in view of their increasing facilities.

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One of our young men who expects to take up missionary work this fall thus expresses himself:  “I don’t suppose that I know very much; but one thing I know, and that is the Dakota Bible.  I can read that to the people and talk about it in my own language, and they can understand me, and that is what they need; they need the Bible.”—­Word Carrier.

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A CHINAMAN’S VIEW OF A FAMILIAR TEXT.—­The writer was for a time a pupil in the White Street Mission School in New York, but he is now a prosperous laundryman at Kingston, N.Y.  In a recent letter to one of his former teachers, he gives the following bit of New Testament exegesis:  “I led the Young Men’s Christian Association meeting on the Sunday before January 11th.  The subject which I gave out:  ’The Christian must be born twice;’ and also read the Scriptures in chapter iii of the Gospel St. John, and explain to them.  I said if a man in this world born twice, he only die once, and if a man born once he die twice.  I mean if a man born twice he must born again of the spirit; his soul shall save; that is, he only die once.  If a man born once his body shall die and his soul also perish; that is, he die twice.  After the meeting was pass one of the old gentleman came to me and said, ‘Are you a missionary?’ I answered him ‘No.’  I said ‘I am a laundryman.’  And good people thought I was missionary.”—­The Foreign Missionary.

Full of encouragement to the workers for the Chinese here in America is the fact that most of the students entering the new Christian college in Canton were formerly Sunday-school scholars in America.  Most of these converted Chinamen who return to their own country are said to take their part in various forms of Christian work.  What an inspiration to the patient teacher, who spends an hour or more every Sunday in trying to Christianize a single Chinaman, to think that, in this indirect way, he, or more frequently she, may be helping on the conversion of China.—­The Congregationalist.

These very just remarks are equally applicable to the work the American Missionary Association is doing so largely and effectively among the Chinese on the Pacific coast.  A letter from Mr. Pond gives us this corroborative item: