At the Annual Meeting in Norwich, the Committee on foreign work recommended that a superintendent of African missions be secured at once. The Executive Committee, after careful inquiry, made selection of Rev. H. M. Ladd, a much beloved pastor of Walton, N. Y., who has written:
“I hereby accept the position, praying the Great Head of the church for His blessing upon the arduous work undertaken in His name, looking for His help, without which we can do nothing, but with which we can do all things. I shall endeavor to enter upon the work of the Association on the 1st of February.”
We sympathize with his people in their great loss and congratulate them on the valuable gift they make to the cause of the Master.
The Southern Workman, published at Hampton, Va., is, mechanically, a fair and most creditable specimen of the work done in the industrial department of the Hampton school; its editorial management proves that men good for something else are devoting their talents to negro education, while its columns show that intelligent minds giving promise of future usefulness are being trained in the school, and the paper, as a whole, gives an adequate idea of the work being done and yet to be done in such schools. Our friends who would at once have a very readable paper, keep informed on all phases of the Hampton work, and contribute something to support a most worthy enterprise, can do all this by sending to Gen. Armstrong the price of the Southern Workman.
“An Old Friend,” of Sag Harbor, New York, sends $30 for a Christmas certificate of Life Membership for one of his friends, the twenty-sixth Life Member of this Association which he has made. He has earned the right to say: “Urge others to make their friends Life Members, and thus add to the friends of the Society, and increase the number of those who will take an interest in the good work.”
Another “Old Friend” who has celebrated his eighty-fifth Thanksgiving, sends $30 as a very suitable wedding present of a Life Membership to his son’s wife, having made all his own children members.
These are happy suggestions for happy occasions.