Who Will do It?—One of our missionaries in North Carolina suggests, and we cordially second the suggestion, that some of our friends send us the means for distributing 1,000 copies of the Missionary to as many prominent men, clergymen and others, through the South. We are confident that a like sum of money could not be expended in a way to tell more favorably upon our work after the means have been supplied to carry it on. Will not some generous friend of the South send us the money?
Tougaloo’s Plea.—Through its workers, this Institution puts in a most pathetic plea to the Executive Committee for an appropriation for a new building. How they inquire, can 120 persons be seated in a dining-room large enough for only 80? Or how can fifty girls be put into 16 small dormitories? The Executive Committee gives it up, and sends it along as too much of a 15-puzzle. The plea melts the hearts of us who have no money, so we make it to those who have, hoping some one will help to a solution of this problem.
Fully as difficult is that propounded by President Ware, of Atlanta: Sixty-two girls in rooms fitted for forty, and prospects that the number cannot be kept down to that. It could be easily increased to one hundred next year. The $10,000, given from the Graves estate for a building, must be supplemented by $5,000 to make it adequate to pressing need. Who gives the answer to this?
The Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, (organ of the A. M. E. Church,) in noticing the “Fool’s Errand,” refers to the fact that the Fool found himself limited to the society of the teachers of the colored schools and a few Northern families, and asks: “Why so? Were there no colored people there? The South ostracised him because of his opinions, while he ostracised the negroes because of their color.” Of the two, the Recorder believes the South the more rational and consistent.
Laws of Heredity.—One of the—not fathers, but great-grandfathers, in Israel, writes a pleasant note from Jewett City, Conn., to say how much pleasure he takes in reading the “Receipt pages” of the Missionary, finding them the most interesting of the whole. He notes as an especially pleasant feature, the increasing number of “friends,” who send, as in the last number, from $2.00 to $1,747.50. He mentions with great satisfaction that he has learned to look regularly in the May number for a contribution from the grandson of an old French Huguenot, who fifty years ago hobbled regularly to the parsonage on the morning after missionary meetings, and asked him (the writer) to get 25 cents out of his purse for the work, which always left the purse empty. The grandson now sends $20. Of him, he says, with Leigh Hunt, “May his tribe increase.” We shall be glad if investigation on the part of some missionary Darwin shall establish the fact that such tendencies are transmitted with accumulating force from father to son.