California has a Promotion Committee, of which Mr. Rufus P. Jennings, 25 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, is the executive officer. Its object is to advertise truthfully, faithfully, and assiduously the resources of California, and the openings and opportunities which await men of energy and ability. For the last year it has had a lecture bureau in San Francisco, at the Academy of Sciences, lectures given every afternoon except Sundays and holidays. All the counties in the state have been asked to send lecturers. As a part of the results by the counties in fourteen weeks, note the following: San Joaquin County, 82 lectures, more than a score of people settled in the county as a direct result, and inquiries at headquarters increased 400 per cent. Santa Clara County, 71 lectures, 25 people located in the county as a direct result, 75 who have gone from the lectures to inspect the county, and an increase of 500 per cent. of inquiries at headquarters. Certainly these are good results, and it shows that it pays to advertise. Lectures and Literature Investigation are still potent. Referring to the article in our Missions department, by Mrs. J. L. Shaw, a missionary in India, stopping only a few months for health, in America, we wish to add another word from the latest Indian census: Those who think that infant marriages have become a thing of the past in this age of enlightenment and progress should have their eyes opened. In Bengal alone there are no fewer than 538 widows below one year of age. The number of Hindu widows in this presidency between two and three years, 651; between three and four years, 1,756; between four and five years, 3,861; between five and ten years, 34,705, and between ten and fifteen years, 75,590. In Bengal nearly every fourth girl is a child-widow. It would seem that the hearts of our readers would be touched by this unfortunate class of children. Cut off from all friendship among their own, many of them can be reached by the representatives of Christ. Having no earthly hope, they embrace that in Christ Jesus.