“Send Us a Preacher.”—Miss Russell tells of a written petition from a city one hundred miles from Peking, to which seventy names were signed, asking for a preacher or teacher. Similar requests from other quarters are coming to our missionaries in China, from cities or villages in which there are now no permanent Christian laborers. These communities have heard something of the truth, perhaps from missionaries while on their tours, and they are coming to know from the light which has been diffusing itself over China within the last four or five years, that the Christian religion, which is allied in their minds with Western enlightenment, is worthy of being studied, even if they have not gone so far as to decide that it ought to be received. This is the day for seed-sowing in China.—Missionary Herald.