From a pastor in a remote part of Georgia: 

“I have seen more of the condition and wants of the people than ever before, but whiskey and tobacco are the great evils of this part of the country.  The colored people are not very much in advance of what they were twenty years ago, but the sad part of it is, that the leaders are no better than the people.  I think almost every minister about here uses whiskey and tobacco, as far as I can learn, and of course the members of the churches can see no harm in doing what their minister does.  This is a sad picture, but it only shows the need of intelligent and consecrated leaders, such as the American Missionary Association is raising up for a people who have been led by those who are neither intelligent nor consecrated.”

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Mrs. Hattie B. Sherman, the daughter of Rev. R.F.  Markham, died January 14th at her residence in Stockton, Kansas.  For two years she was a missionary of this Association at Beach Institute, Savannah, Ga., where she rendered faithful and effective service in the education of the colored people.  We tender our sympathies to her father, who was for so many years a useful missionary of the Association in the South, and to her husband, in their great bereavement.

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THE CHINESE.

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LOO QUONG’S APPEAL.

Loo Quong is one of our Evangelistic Helpers.  His special field at present is Southern California.  The appeal is not only original, but spontaneous; written out of the anxious longings of his own heart, and not upon any suggestion from me.  I have simply condensed it, to bring it within the limits of our space.  I ask for it a kind and responsive hearing.

WM. C. POND.

Dear friends of the American Missionary Association: 

We, the Chinese, have appreciated the generous Christian acts of the members of this great Association, who not only have done good to other souls of the United States, but have saved hundreds of poor sinners of our Chinese race, in which I, myself, was one of the lost and now am found.  It was through the generosity and God-loving heart of the Association that the Chinese found Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world.  And it was through the hard labors and patience of our Superintendent of the California Chinese Mission that the Chinese have become partakers of the blessings of the gospel.  Though it is here that the good news is told, it has echoed back far away across the Pacific, where the four hundred millions of heathen Chinese are living.  Just as our Lord said to his disciples, “There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known.  Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the house tops.”  Luke 12:  2, 3.