ecessary to doctor. It is, perhaps, the first
instance on record in modern times where these semi-lunar fardels have
been looked upon with respect and curiosity. When "Brother Dodge" came,
congratulations were in order over his Church, his School and his Hall,
but he would have none of it. He was seeing another building floating in
the clouds, and could only talk of the invisible. It will, however, soon
be among things visible, for the missionary has his grapples out. It is
to be a Boarding Hall and Industrial Home for girls who will come into
it and learn to live and to be. "But, Pleasant Hill is not a town, it is
not a village, it is only by courtesy a hamlet. Where are your pupils?"
"The woods are full of them and they will come from near and from far,"
replies their young missionary of more than three score and ten years.
On Sunday, the church was filled; on Monday, the school was full; and
our heart was full of thanksgiving that God had come to these mountain
people, that hope would enter their lives and their cabins, and that
these boys and girls would now step up in Christian manhood and
womanhood.

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One of the impressive thoughts which a visit to an institution like Fisk
University is sure to excite, is the relation of all this work to the
future. Apropos of this, the Rev. J.O.A. Clark, D.D., LL.D., of Macon,
Ga., has just written a little tract of fifty pages on "The Future of
the Races." He does not vote in New England, nor is he a Yankee; but he
is a good and true witness. He says, that the Races are running races
along the paths of knowledge and up the hills of science. These are his
words (pages 19 and 20): "Have they" [the colored people] "availed
themselves of the educational facilities? Have they profited by them? We
answer that they have been incalculably benefited. They have shown not
only that they can receive education, but education of a high order.
Their improvement has been so astonishing as to silence doubt and
caviling. Our Southern eyes have been opened to see it. Southern candor
is free to admit it. There are none who do not admit it but the
hopelessly prejudiced. I am persuaded that the _average_ examinations in
the colored schools are better than the average in the white schools,
for teachableness is the basis of all education, and this universally
distinguishes the negro." Dr. Clark is not saying that the white boy may
not learn more easily and mast