red
people, the mountain whites, and the new settlers from the North and
from the old countries. Indirectly we are reaching many more. The
schools we plant often incite others to plant schools; the houses of
worship we aid in erecting cause others to be erected. A single neat,
but inexpensive building for a country church of colored people has
been known to occasion the building or repairing of at least nine
church buildings of neighboring white people. The incontestably good
results of our work among the colored people are slowly but surely
undermining race prejudice. In spite of all the race trouble during
the past year and the increasingly bitter utterances of some papers
and some public speakers, during no other year in the history of our
country have so many manly words in favor of the Negro been printed in
Southern papers, and sounded from the pulpits and platforms of the
South. It was in a Southern University and before a Southern audience
that a Southern man, a Bishop of a Southern church which took the name
Southern when it declared for slavery, this year uttered these words:

"It is a travesty on religion, this disposition to canonize
missionaries who go to the Dark Continent, while we have
nothing but social ostracism for the white teacher who is
doing a work no less noble at home. The solution to the race
problem rests with the white people who live among the blacks,
and who are willing to become their teachers in a missionary
spirit."

Cruel and unreasoning is prejudice, but when the public platforms, and
especially the pulpits, begin to yield in their utterances to the sway
of logic and humanity, by and by public opinion will feel their force.
Our institutions and our missionaries have compelled the respect of
the Southern people. This year many expressions of it have been heard.

* * * * *

_EDUCATIONAL WORK._

CHARTERED INSTITUTIONS.

During the past year we have directly sustained five chartered
institutions in the South--Fisk University, Talladega College,
Tougaloo University, Straight University and Tillotson Institute.
Every year that passes emphasizes anew that these are most wisely
located, so that each is a center of far-reaching power, and
supplements the work of all the others.

Fisk University at Nashville, Tenn., with its 503 students, has had a
year of great prosperity, and solid, telling work. Its buildings have
been full,