keeping.

At Straight, the young men receive instruction in printing,
carpentry, and floriculture; the young women, needlework, cooking and
housekeeping.

At Tillotson, carpentry is taught the young men; needlework, cooking
and housekeeping, the young women.

Our normal schools at Memphis, Tenn., Macon, Ga., and Williamsburg,
Ky., have carpentry, printing, and other industrial training for the
young men, and training in the various arts of home life for the young
women.

At Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Macon, Thomasville, Athens, Ala.,
Marion, Mobile, Pleasant Hill, Sherwood, and other normal, graded and
common schools, the young women are trained in the things which they
will most need in making comfortable and pleasant homes. Indeed, we
make it our special care that the girls shall everywhere in our work
be taught these things, so essential to the uplifting of a people.
In many places where we have no schools, the pastor's wife, or our
special lady missionary, is doing this same kind of work.

THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS.

At Fisk, Talladega, Tougaloo and Straight, there have been during
the year theological classes. The Theological Department of Howard
University, at Washington, has been supported by this Association.
Even in some of our normal schools Biblical instruction has been given
to some who are now preachers and some who intend to preach. But
the number trained has not been sufficient to supply our pastorless
churches. The need of a general theological seminary for our churches
in the South is becoming imperative. The extensive enlargement of
our church work, which ought to begin at once, can scarcely be made
successful without this. Who is the one to seize this opportunity
to establish an institution of untold possibilities in advancing the
Kingdom of Christ on earth--a place where ministers shall be prepared
for the work in the South and for foreign missions in Africa?

STATISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE SOUTH.

Total number of Schools 60
Total number of Instructors 260
Total number of Pupils 10,094
Theological Students 82
Law Students 10
College Students 51
College Preparatory Students 103
Normal Students 784
Grammar Grades 2,127
Intermediate Grades 3,181
Primary Grades 3,7