Equally clear providential indications may yet point the way to a work among the Southern white people, as soon as the caste prejudice shall melt away under the benign influence of Gospel light and love. And thus all the races—as in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free—shall be united not only in Christian sympathy and fellowship at home, but in the blessed work of carrying the pure Gospel of Christ to all the lands and peoples of the world.
A gentleman, who for a dozen years has been a member of the Senate of Maryland, drops in at our rooms occasionally from interest in our work. The last time he was in he spoke of a colored young Catholic, who was among the number of those who were taken over to London to be educated for the priesthood and to be returned to labor among the freedmen in that office. The Doctor said that the young man had returned with a fine education, but had abandoned the idea of taking orders. He was now teaching school, but his highest ambition was to become a porter in a large library. As this is the first and only one of those young men, of whom so much was said at one time, to be identified by us, we are glad to hear from him. Of course, this one case does not carry the whole, but surely it does not augur much for a Romish propagandism among our colored fellow citizens.
BENEFACTIONS.
John Francis Clapp of the firm of Simpson, Clapp & Co., of New York, remembered his native town, Belchertown, Mass., in his will by the gift of $40,000 for a public library and a building for the same.
Mr. George I. Seney has presented $25,000 to the Wesleyan Female College, to finish the college buildings.
Mrs. Shaw, of Boston, the daughter of the late Professor Agassiz, supports 33 kindergartens in that city and vicinity, at an expense of $25,000 per annum.
President Peter McVicar has lately received a gift of $10,000 for Washburn College from a friend in Massachusetts.