ngs and scales;
to sustain the interest of the pupil.

Of course there are a number of other indirect results attained at the
same time in the general development of the faculties, and the training in
habits of accuracy, patient perseverance, neatness, and order.

The drawing classes are designed to carry on farther the same idea of the
primary importance of technical knowledge and skill. We have but one year
of compulsory work for the boys of the ninth grade--which provides a
thorough course in plane, geometric scale, and pattern drawing from the
same text-book that is used in the government science and art schools of
Great Britain. Our plan provides another year's work in drawing for the
purpose of teaching the principles and details of building construction,
and the art of drawing plans, elevations, sections, etc. The improvement
of the students in the drawing class is most marked and encouraging, and
their interest well sustained. They are strongly impressed with the
necessity and importance of absolute accuracy and truthfulness in their
work.

The classes in woodworking have about two hours per week--the first year
drawing, five hours per week; the second year two hours per week. We have
but one teacher in woodworking, and our work is limited in extent, but we
are trying to do one thing well and systematically, and the results are
most encouraging.

Revivals.

Lincoln Academy, All Healing, N.C.

By Rev. James Wharton.

I wish to say a word about Lincoln Academy as I found it. For several
weeks they had been expecting me to go and hold evangelistic services for
the students, whom I was glad to meet, and, I may say, a finer and more
promising set of young people I have seldom met during the past twenty
years of my work in the South. They are to be the fathers and mothers of
the next generation, and will be just what we make them. They were all in
good condition and prepared to enter upon the work of the Lord under the
leadership of the principal, Miss Cathcart, and the teachers, who are all
deeply interested in the spiritual welfare of each one under their care,
and time after time one and another were taken to their rooms apart and
pleaded with at the throne of grace, and I need not say that their efforts
were signally blessed of God, for during the past week twenty-eight
students have professed faith in Christ and are now living new lives.

Every one around this neighborhood speaks in the hig