was
accentuated, and it was from a full heart each one gave the Y. P. S.
C. E. benediction of "The Lord watch between thee and me while we are
absent one from the other."

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GRAND VIEW, TENN.

FROM "DAYTON LEADER," DAYTON, TENN.

GRAND VIEW, TENN., MAY 19.--Commencement exercises at Grand View
Normal Institute were held last night. This excellent school is
situated on the eastern brow of Walden's Ridge, fifty-five miles north
from Chattanooga. It overlooks a view of fertile valley below, and
beyond a vast expanse of numberless wooded hills with glimpses of the
Tennessee river winding between, while on the horizon looms the dim,
majestic form of the Smoky Range.

It is an institution of the American Missionary Association
(Congregational), and is equal to many of our lesser colleges.
Mathematics is carried through trigonometry and surveying. Latin and
music are taught, also, as well as the ordinary studies of the common
and high schools. Above one hundred and fifty pupils, from a dozen
different States, were on the roll of the past term. The teachers are
of the highest order and their efficiency was emphatically
demonstrated by the splendid work of last night's exercises.

While there was, of course, a marked difference in the oratorical
powers of the young speakers, yet the uniformly high moral and
intellectual tone of the admirably composed essays was a feature
gratifying indeed to the numerous fathers and mothers present. There
were present men of learning, teachers and preachers from surrounding
cities, whose words of frank encomium upon the exercises emphasized
their excellence. The visitors crowded the spacious hall to its utmost
capacity and a large "overflow meeting" looked in through the windows.

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_Church Work._

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THE EVANGELIST AT WORK.

MR. JAMES WHARTON.

It has again been my privilege to spend the winter in the South in the
interests of the colored population under the auspices of the American
Missionary Association, and in each section of the country visited I
am glad to record a marked change for the better both morally and
spiritually in advance of twenty years ago, and this I consider is due
in a great measure to the influence and instrumentality of the
Congregational churches and schools in connection with them.

The untold good that is being done by the various in