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are confident that your Christian faith would not decline this
Christian benevolence. Hence the plans for Chandler School are in the
hands of the builders. Could some like-minded wealthy steward of the
grace of God visit Williamsburg, Ky., in our Mountain White work, we
might be compelled to face another such dilemma.
AT MERIDIAN, MISS., where Christian parents have besought us for
years, past to open a missionary school, through which their children
might be saved to morality and integrity of character during the

formative periods of their lives, we have at last seen our way to answer
their pathetic appeal in part. A day school with an industrial department
is ready for the opening, the building having been constructed during
the months of summer. For valuable aid in sympathy, counsel and
influence in Meridian, we and the people to whom we are sent are
greatly indebted to Rev. Wm. Hayne Leavell, of Meridian.
WHITNEY HALL, for the Indian boys at Santee Agency, is another
noble gift of large Christian faith for our Normal School in Nebraska.
We summoned our courage to take this, also, with what the
enlargement includes.
These are the chief additions to our system of schools, though there
have been less marked enlargements in other places. They are simply
the growths of strong faith and strong life. They are the free and special
gifts which came to us through the convictions of others who had
realized the need.
The common schools, 35 in number, in eight different Southern States,
are in the hands of faithful teachers.
There are six Chartered Institutions, behind which we have stood the
year past.
TALLADEGA COLLEGE in Talladega, Ala., has had a year of
exceptional interest. The college work is developing and the theological
school was never better. The industrial departments in agriculture and
the mechanic arts offer fine advantages. The institution increases in
popular favor and is full of students.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY in Georgia, under the temporary presidency
of Prof. Francis, who was also college preacher and pastor, has moved
on in its usual course. Through the successful solicitation of Prof.
Bumstead, with our cordial and constant endorsement, sufficient
Christian money came into the treasury to meet the deficiency caused
by the withdrawal of $8,000 from the State of Georgia. The
Association was able in its grants to share in this satisfactory result. At
the last meeting of the Trustees, Prof. Bumstead was elected President
for the ensuing year, and Prof. Chase, in view of a removal to New
Mexico, resigned the professorship which he had ably held many years.
STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY at New Orleans, located in the most
influential city of the Southwest, draws its students from refined Creole
homes and from the rude cabins of the remote plantations. An

interesting report gathered from twenty-two of its students who taught
school during the summer vacation, tells us that they instructed 1,398
pupils in day schools and organized thirteen Sunday-schools, in which
were taught 1,574 children, most of whom were absolutely unreached
before. This summer record of Straight University students is a partial
illustration of what is going forth from it year by year; and not from
Straight only, but from all of our higher schools. The theological work
in Straight is of incalculable importance.
TILLOTSON INSTITUTE, at Austin, Texas, has invigorated its
normal course and has inaugurated a hopeful college preparatory
department. The recipient of a special gift, it was enabled to complete a
new industrial building, in which has begun a course of industrial
training. It greatly needs a second dormitory hall for young women,
and were not the institution so remote, some prophetic giver would see
the urgency and the strategy of such a gift, and would make it. If,
without the sight, some one shall be led to do this for Tillotson, he will
reap the blessing of those who do not see and yet believe.
TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, near Jackson, Miss., is an institution of
exceeding interest. It has a department of Biblical instruction added to
its course of study, in which students are prepared to preach the gospel.
Its industrial facilities are excellent, both for agricultural and
mechanical training. The students can take the timber from the tree, and
the iron in the rough, and make wagons and carriages sufficiently good
to compete with the best makers in the State. The school in all of its
parts is controlled by the missionary spirit. Rev. F.G. Woodworth, of
Connecticut, last year assumed the Presidency.
FISK UNIVERSITY, at Nashville, Tenn., is one of the oldest and most
complete of all our Southern colleges, and has no superior among all
the institutions in the country devoted to the education of the Negro.
Giving relatively less attention to the industries, it models itself after
our Northern colleges, and emulates them in