reach the
power to build his own house and keep it in repair, or to go on to
the mastery of a useful trade and through it to the securing of a
means of livelihood. The printing office, too, gives yet another line
of hand training and at the same time of intellectual accuracy in
other directions and studies.

For the special Normal training of teachers the practice of teaching
in the lower grades and classes under the supervision of a regular
critic teacher, is carried through the greater part of the senior
year, after the study of psychology has been mastered and the
principles of school management have been taught.

And, finally, throughout the course the Bible, with its hopes and
promises, its warnings and denunciations of evil conduct, is
constantly taught and its sanctions utilized in the formation and
strengthening of character, and in most cases it is found powerful in
leading to the choice of the Christian life.

Thus is the work of Le Moyne Institute summarized, and such would it
be found any day in the year. Its teachers, in their life as a
family, in the teachers' home, comprise a "social settlement" that
was in successful operation years before the name came to have any
significance among the forces working for the social uplifting of the
poor and the outcast of society.

[Illustration: CLASS OF 1900, LE MOYNE INSTITUTE.]

One other feature is worthy of mention with the work at Memphis, that
is, the cordial and mutually helpful relations existing between the
church and the school. They supplement, each, the work of the other,
and pastor and teachers plan and work together for the same end, the
general betterment of all the people.

Finally, Le Moyne school has from the first been fortunate in gaining
and holding the respect and esteem of the best, most thoughtful white
people of Memphis, and of many other communities from which our
students have come and back into which they have again returned, to
act as regulating, renewing agencies among the people. Surely the
workers in the field should not be slow nor timid in asking for the
means to carry forward and to make more effective such a work as
this. It is not a losing battle we wage. Every heart and life that
has come into near and vital contact with the work has been itself
quickened and inspired by a service so effective and life-giving. It
is the old story ever repeated--"He that goeth forth and weepeth,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless retur