r of the South.

We might also, with a thousand dollars a day, do more than we have
ever done to foster the growth of right and permanent institutions in
all our fields of labor. This is the great and urgent necessity. Out
of Christian churches and schools will flow all the benefits demanded
by a Christian civilization. For this especially we emphasize our
appeal. To what better use can the Christians and patriots of our
country devote a thousand dollars a day?

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A friend, noting the annual average addition of churches as five or
six, raised the question whether the time had not come for doubling
that rate. The Association is glad to recognize this worthy
aspiration and itself to avow the spirit of it, and still further to
remind the friends that the disposition of leaders on the field to
magnify the work of each year is also in the same line. Nevertheless,
we find that those who become in some sense responsible for the
nurture and support of these ecclesiastical children born to us
become conservative instead of becoming rash, as is sometimes
averred. Yet we are able to give assurance that the Field
Superintendent and his associates, with their eyes upon the whole
field, watching the germs and their unfolding, are only anxious to
set out these plants of the Lord's house as fast as is at all
consistent. We also see, in no far-away future, a large church work
for us as the fruitage of our school work.

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A prize of $75 is given annually to the best male Greek scholar in
the High School at Newport, R. I. The best examination this year was
by the daughter of George Rice, the colored steward of the steamer
Pilgrim. As she was not eligible to the award a gentleman from New
York sent her $75 in gold.

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WANTED!

--We greatly need a new school building, for the lower grades at
Tougaloo University, a two-story building with school rooms below and
a chapel above. Who will give $3,000 for ---- Hall at Tougaloo?

--We need also a steam engine for the Industrial Department at
Tougaloo, a portable engine of ten or twelve horse-power. Who will
give it, or the money needful?

--We need twenty or more sets of carpenters' tools for schools of
carpentry at Talladega and elsewhere. Who will give one or more sets?

--We need illustrated books and magazines for our Reading Rooms. Who
will give us subscrip