season and out of season, and most of the time rendering help not bargained for fully equal to that which I could have required.  The helpers also passed before me.  Jee Gam with his wife and five children; our brave, unselfish Low Quong; our faithful, almost saintly Chin Toy, our earnest and eloquent Yong Jin—­all of whom have sacrificed their pecuniary interests for service in the mission, and all of whom, if their income from missionary work ceases, will be compelled at once to seek an income elsewhere because of those dependent upon them.  Then the schools passed before me—­closed and silent, most of them, the scholars scattered and the momentum from many years of earnest, unremitting effort gradually dying away.”

The Daniel Hand Fund.

It may be asked, Why not meet such pressing claims out of this Fund?  We answer, That Fund is doing its noble work in its chosen field, among the colored people in the South, but cannot do all even in that; and it will be observed that most of these calls come from the other portions of our field, the mountains of the South, the Indians of the West, and the Chinese on the Pacific coast.  Our main dependence must ever be on the churches.

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THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THE TWO CENTURIES.

The first century of the American Constitution has passed, and has been grandly celebrated.  We now stand on the dividing line, and enter upon the Second Century with its unknown trials and triumphs.  What these may be, we may judge, perhaps, in part, if we turn to those of the past.  Among the many and serious objections made against the Constitution at the outset, demanding protracted discussions, Compromises and Amendments, none were graver or more far-reaching in their consequences than those respecting State Rights and the recognition of Negro slavery.  The bottom difficulty in these was probably that of slavery, for, if it had not introduced such radically different industries in the two sections of the country, with their different interests, and habits of thought and life, the question of State Rights might have slumbered in quietude.  But when slavery had to be defended, State Rights was the bastion behind which the defence sheltered itself.  Whether the Compromise with slavery at the outset were the wise thing or not, it is not worth while now to consider.  We do not know what the consequences would have been if the Compromise had not been made.  We all know now, only too sadly, the dreadful price that was at last paid for the Compromise.