such lack. New demands are springing up at every
point, and it is wise economy to meet these demands. They are simply
the healthy development of legitimate missionary work.

Just now there is urgent demand for the increase of facilities for
promoting industrial education. The South is arising into a new life.
New fields of labor are rapidly opening. Skilled workmen are wanted.
The possibilities of agricultural prosperity are becoming better
understood. The aspiring youth of both sexes are comprehending their
opportunities, and the industrial departments in connection with our
institutions are patronized as never before. We ought to make the
most of them now.

We need more means for supplying the minds of those hungering for
knowledge with good reading. The colored people have few, if any,
books or periodicals. We ought to have the means at once for
furnishing fifty libraries and reading-rooms at as many different
points. Such help to those willing to help themselves to some extent
should be provided.

The students leaving our schools to go forth as teachers may be
numbered by thousands. These explore the dark places of the land.
They open schools in such buildings as can be found, or, finding
none, teach out of doors. We need means to aid many such with
supplemental support, making it possible for them to continue their
schools longer than the few months provided for by the limited State
appropriations. Thousands of dollars could be used wisely in this
way. The opportunity now for temperance work is more promising than
ever. A temperance wave has been sweeping some portions of the South.
Our students are thoroughly indoctrinated in the principles of total
abstinence. They make the best advocates of the cause that can be had
for many localities. It is a crucial period. The time to do this work
is now--now, while the great questions at issue are being agitated
and settled. We ought to have means for extending our efforts to the
utmost in this direction.

Of more importance still is evangelistic work, supplemental to the
labors of our pastors. This is coming into more than usual
prominence. Our students have had thorough training for it, and no
little experience in it during their course of study. A score of them
in every Southern State could be set to work with profit, if we had
the money for such outlay. Nothing could do more for immediate
results in developing a pure Christianity among the untaught and
unsaved poo