We wish to call particular attention to the third annual convention of the Church Students' Missionary association, which will be held at the Episcopal Theological school, beginning this afternoon at three o'clock and ending on Saturday evening. The conventions have heretofore been held in New York, but last year it was decided to accept the joint invitation of the Episcopal Theological school and the St. Paul's society to have the meeting this year in Cambridge. Although there is now no really organized missionary work being done here at Harvard, there are a great many men who are independently working in this vicinity, and to those men especially, the public meetings of the convention will be a help and encouragement. The names of the speakers alone are enough to guarantee interest to others. At the private afternoon meetings of the delegates a number of interesting essays will be read. All students who may desire to be present will be welcomed. At the public services in St. John's chapel, Friday and Saturday evenings, Dean Lawrence will give an address of welcome, the Right Rev. T. M. Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky, will speak on The Church's Duty to the Negro; Dr. Brooks on Foreign Missions; the Rev. A. C. A. Hall on City Work; the Rev. Alexander Crummell on The Rescue and Salvation of a Race; and R. Fulton Cutting, Esq., of New York, on the Church's Work for Young Men. The closing address will be delivered by Bishop Paddock.

Dr. Brooks and Father Hall are too well known to Harvard men to need a further introduction. Bishop Dudley is the highest living authority upon the Negro question, having made it a life study; Mr. Crummell is probably the finest colored preacher in the world.

Before the war, as no American college would receive a colored pupil, he went to Oxford and received there an education. He is now rector of St. Luke's church, Washington, D. C. Mr. Cutting, though a layman, has had vast experience in missionary work, and no man who is at all interested in the subject, can fail to be benefited by his advice.

The St. Paul's society is to be congratulated on its energy in aiding to bring the convention to Cambridge, and we hope that in the coming meetings it will receive the hearty support of the university.