Day Band." Each member pledges himself
to lay aside one cent each day for some benevolent object. They elect a
treasurer and put into his hands this "Cent-a-Day" fund, as they please,
some paying frequently, others waiting until considerable has
accumulated. At a given time each month they divide the accumulated
contributions among the different societies as they may elect. The
American Missionary Association has occasion to be grateful for this
"Extra Cent-a-Day" plan in the pledge of about thirty dollars to its
treasury. I pass it along in these "Notes," as these friends hold no
patent right upon the method, and would gladly see it adopted in many
churches.

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There seems to be a great localization of patriotic Christian thought in
New England upon the Southern problem now, as there has not been since
the war closed. I bought recently one of the leading magazines on the
train, and the leading article in it was on the Southern problem. I
picked up the _Forum_, and the leading article was on the Southern
problem. Mr. Grady comes from the South to address the business men of
Boston, and turns aside from questions which would naturally be
discussed to speak of the Southern problem. At a recent meeting of the
Old Colony Congregational Club at Brockton, Massachusetts, they invited
two Secretaries to speak upon this Southern problem, and listened with
patience to two long addresses. The discussion which followed indicated
that the churches represented in that large and intelligent club were
most earnestly pondering this Southern problem. In its importance, it
overtops every other consideration before the citizens and churches of
America to-day! Thoughtful people are coming more than ever to realize
this. The processes of thought through which they have passed already,
and the facts they have settled in their own minds, indicate a very
hopeful condition of things. In the first place, they are sure that this
is not a local or sectional question. It is a National question, and
will involve the whole country in anarchy and misrule, unless the
anarchy and misrule of the Southern whites are stopped. New England's
voice will be heard in solemn and earnest protest, unless there is a
radical change in the conduct of the dominant race of the South very
soon. Such outrages as those at Barnwell, S.C., and Jackson, Miss.,
which are only types of many such, must be stopped.

Another fact that has