OOD, S.C., ATLANTA, MACON, SAVANNAH, THOMASVILLE and MCINTOSH,
GA., MOBILE, ATHENS and MARION, ALA., MEMPHIS, JONESBORO, GRAND VIEW
and PLEASANT HILL, TENN., LEXINGTON and WILLIAMSBURG, KY., to which
must be added the large Normal and Industrial School at Santee Agency,
Nebraska, the Oahe Industrial School and the Fort Berthold Industrial
School, both in Dakota, and all three for the Indians, making
altogether 20. The Association provides also the entire teaching force
at the Ramona Indian School at Santa Fe, New Mexico. To these Normal
Schools, we may add the six normal departments in our colleges with
their superior normal instruction. From nearly all of these, strong
appeals for enlargement have come to meet the demands of a healthy
growth. We have cut, trimmed and denied, with a resolution that has
been painful both in the office and in the field, and yet the growth
is upon us. Without pushing our work, it is pushing us.

While ignorant millions need the truth and knowledge which we have,
and there are resources in the hands of the disciples of Christ enough
for this vast and increasingly urgent work, the necessity of denying
the provisions for the development of success becomes well-nigh
oppressive.

AT PLEASANT HILL, TENN., an important centre in our Mountain work, we
have now, in addition to the new church, a school building unequalled
in that region. A second building for a dormitory and boarding hall is
nearly completed.

THE GRAND VIEW ACADEMY in the Mountain region, has also increased its
school accommodations, and the look forward is to a large institution
with far-reaching influence in the valley of the Cumberland and on the
plateau. If we are to hold this region, we must take possession now.

We have also reassumed charge of a school at Beaufort, N.C. The people
are already appealing to us in the accents of their own sacrifices for
its immediate enlargement.

Providentially, and without our solicitation, a generous giver, of
Brooklyn, N.Y., who had already added to many large benevolences in
the South, the fine building known as Ballard Hall and the excellent
shops for industrial training at Tougaloo, made a proffer of $11,500
to erect at Macon, Ga., a school building of brick, capable of
accommodating six hundred pupils. This successful school had grown
until it had taken possession of the church building for school
purposes. This noble gift, bestowed after a personal inspection on the
part of Mr. B