Carolina are doing
a good work in Christian Endeavor. The Endeavor spirit is alive at
Avery Institute and Plymouth Church, Charleston.

Christian Endeavor Hall, at Dorchester Academy, McIntosh, Ga., was
built by the gifts of Northern Endeavorers. This school, with its
church and Endeavor societies, is located in Liberty County, in the
black belt of southeast Georgia. This is one of the most needy
sections of darkest America. The American Missionary Association has
done a noble work of uplifting in their behalf.

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Obituary.

At the last meeting of the Executive Committee--their first meeting
after the death of Dr. Cravath--the following minute was unanimously
adopted to be inscribed in the records of the Association, to be sent
to the bereaved family and to be published in $1:

MINUTE.

In recording the death of Rev. E. M. Cravath, D.D., President of Fisk
University, the Executive Committee desire to express their deep
sense of loss to the institution and to the American Missionary
Association.

In the work of the American Missionary Association Dr. Cravath has
for thirty-five years given his life, having served for ten years as
Field Superintendent and Field Secretary, and for twenty-five
consecutive years as President of the University.

Mustered out of the army as a Chaplain at the close of the war, Dr.
Cravath immediately selected the location which has become the
permanent home of Fisk University and recommended it to the American
Missionary Association. No one person did more toward locating and
founding the institution. No one person has done more toward its
perpetuation and development. The work to which he gave his life, for
reasons well understood, was a difficult one and involved much of
sacrifice; but among the difficulties which he encountered he ever
bore himself with a calm dignity and a wise prudence which, with his
intellectual power and attainments, gave him great prominence and
influence throughout the educational field of the South.

To manage, govern and direct an institution like Fisk University in
its environment, and in the face of many prejudices, called for an
exceptional man. Dr. Cravath comprehended not only its necessities
but its possibilities. He united a marked administrative ability with
his spirit of consecration so that the University constantly
increased in power and influence under his charge. With a large
sympathy for the young