“I can’t read much,” said a preacher; “I can’t say all dem long, hard names. I couldn’t read a word when the good Lord Jesus found me, in the South Caroliny cane-brake; but I taught myself to spell out de name ob Jesus, and now I can read all ’bout how He carries sinners to heaven; dat’s ’nough.”

We were present at a communion service in which there was nothing calculated to draw a smile. Tears of apparently genuine earnestness stood in many eyes, and suppressed sobs mingled with the rich, quaint hymns in many parts of the room. The preacher was a young man, who drew a moving picture of the crucifixion, which, in its pathos, simplicity, and correct diction, would have done honor to any white preacher in the land. But one point, that of the substitution of w for r, marked the speaker as one of that subject race, which, in thus slowly rising from barbarism, while it loses much that is amusing to the merely curious observer, is steadily gaining in what pertains to the dignity of manhood, and the well-being of immortal souls.—Illustrated Christian Weekly.

RECEIPTS

FOR MAY, 1878.

MAINE, $111.42.
Augusta. John Dorr15.00
Bangor. First Cong. Ch.31.42
Brewer. First Cong. Ch. $6.40, and Sab.Sch. $2.50; Dea. J. Holyoke $5.1014.00
Hallowell. Miss Mary Flagg $10; Hon. H.K. Baker $2, for Printing Press, TalladegaC.; “A Friend” $1, for Student, Tougaloo,Miss.13.00
Houlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.2.00
Oak Hill. ——30.00
Wells. “A Friend”5.00
Wild. Rev. D. D. T.1.00
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $254.02.
Concord. R. P. S.1.00
Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., for aTeacher, Wilmington, N. C.70.00
Greenland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.20.85
Hanover. Cong. Ch. Dartmouth Col.50.00
Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc.17.00
Hooksett. Union Soc.3.87
Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.37.00
Marlborough. “Ladies’ Freedmen’s AidSoc.”16.00
New Boston. Ladies, bbl. of C. and $2, forfreight, for Wilmington N. C.2.00
New Ipswich. “Hillside Gleaners,” for MemorialInst., Wilmington, N. C.16.00
West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc.20.30
VERMONT, $259.62.
Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.15.00
Brownington and Barton Landing. Cong.Ch. and Soc.13.25
Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith5.00
East Arlington. Rev. Chas. Redfield10.00
Jericho Centre. Miss J. Graves2.00
New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.39.37
North Springfield. Chas. Haywood5.00
Peru. Cong. Ch.10.00
Rochester. Cong. Soc.15.00
St. Albans. Mrs. J. Gregory Smith10.00
Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.19.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.69.00
Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30; C.W. Eastman $1040.00
Westminster West. Mrs. A. S. G.1.00
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.6.00