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the mountains are victims of slavery as innocent as the Negro; and they do not see that their indifference is letting them lie in the hard bed which circumstances, largely beyond their control, have made for them. If they will only give us money, "greenbacks," if need be, and enable us to get the young out of bed on their intellectual and spiritual feet, I shall be satisfied. And if our Congressmen and politicians would bury the "Bloody Shirt," and stop throwing stones over Mason and Dixon's fence, and out of their personal means give, what is too often given uselessly, to the Association and other similar Boards, the questions which spring from sectional prejudice would soon be solved. I do believe that what the American Missionary Association stands for is the panacea for all political and social ills.

REVIVALS.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.
BY REV. GEO. H HAINES.
We are in the midst of a glorious revival. Rev. James Wharton was with us six days. What wonderful help he has been to our work during his stay with us. We had eleven hopeful conversions. We continued our meetings after he left us, and our total number of conversions is twenty. Among the persons who have left the ways of sin and turned into the way of life are two very remarkable cases. A woman of about fifty years of age, a drunkard and one of the most profane women in our city, asked the people of God to pray for her. It seemed hard for her to understand the simple plan of salvation, and that the Lord Jesus would save her if she would believe. The evening after Mr. Wharton left she received the evidence of her conversion. I can never tell how the news of this woman's conversion spread over the city. It created as much excitement as the news of the man who was found by our Saviour among the tombs. Crowds came to our services to see if the news was true, and when they heard the testimony for Christ they rejoiced with us.
The other is a man of about the same age, who has been a great disbeliever in the word of God, though his wife was a member of our church. He was a very strong man in all the societies in the city. He has been led out of darkness into light. The people say: "God bless Mr. Wharton." Our Sunday-school has grown wonderfully in the last month. Indeed, every department of our church work is looking up.

BEAUFORT, N.C.
BY REV. J.P. SIMS.
Evangelist Wharton's visit did us a great deal of good. Not only have souls been converted, but the church has been edified. In the revival there were six hopeful conversions, and four joined our church, among them a very promising young man.
Our people are becoming more and more willing to divide their little mite with the church. They make a special effort once a month to help raise the pastor's salary by giving what they call a "surprise party," bringing packages of flour, sugar, coffee, meal, rice, fish, etc., for which I give them credit. Sometimes the unconverted are with them. They come in singing, fill the table, then a prayer, and return at once, singing as they go. By this process we are able to send in a better report than we have been doing.

CENTRAL CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS, LA.
BY REV. JOHN W. WHITTAKER.
We have just passed through a precious season of revival. We began a series of meetings during the week of prayer. God's presence and blessing were manifestly with us, so we were constrained to continue them another week, holding meetings every night. Fifteen were turned to God. Nine of them have united with our church and have begun service for the Master. The meetings were well attended, and our whole church was stirred up to more faithful work for God and humanity. Our church is steadily increasing in strength. Almost every Sabbath some one is taken into membership. We have on our books nearly two hundred and fifty people who have pledged themselves to give weekly on an average ten cents or more toward the support of the church. We love the American Missionary Association, and appreciate all that it is doing for us. We need its aid just now. We cannot get on without it. But we do not mean to make what you do for us an excuse for doing less for ourselves.

ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
DENOMINATIONAL FRATERNITY.--From High Point, N. C., we have the following:
One of the great hindrances to the evangelization of the colored people in the South is the constant flaunting of denominational banners by ignorant and unprincipled preachers. But I am happy to say, that at our special services on Lincoln Memorial Day, this spirit of evil was buried in