ave been
secured. A model crop is now growing on this farm. We have erected
a building--a two-story frame--at a cost of something over $2,000.

I hope you will not get, from what I have said, an idea that I am
measuring the success of my efforts by material advancement. I am
not. There are forces which our labors have set to work here, the
results of which can not be measured in facts and figures. One year
ago religious services were held once a month, at which time the
day was spent in singing, praying, and shouting. The way some of
the people lived for the next twenty-nine days would shock a
sensitive individual to read about it. Young people would gamble
with the dice, etc., in a most despicable way, within a short
distance of the church, during services; others would discharge
revolvers at the church door during services; ignorance,
superstition, vice, and immorality were everywhere present,
notwithstanding the handful of determined Christian men and women
who were trying to overcome these evil tendencies. I do not
maintain that these evils have been crushed out. They have not. But
what I do maintain is that the general current has been checked.
The revolution is on; and if we continue the work here, as we
surely will, these evil tendencies will soon be crushed out.

During this year the people themselves furnished $1,000 toward the
support of the school. They have never before spent a tenth as much for
education. The second year eleven teachers were employed and 400
students were admitted. The cost of operations was $10,000, all of which
was raised during the year. We are now entering into our third term.
Fifteen teachers have been employed, and the expenses of operation will
be about $15,000, all of which I must raise by direct effort. Our
property, all deeded to a board of trustees, is valued at $10,000.

I can not feel that I have accomplished much here in Mississippi,
because I see all around me so much to be done--so much that I can not
touch because of lack of means. But, being in the work to stay, I may,
in the end, contribute my share to the betterment of man. If I have
suffered much to build up this work, I can not feel that it is a
sacrifice. It is a colossal opportunity. The greater the sacrifice, the
more extensive the opportunity. Whatever may have been accomplished
already is certainly due more to my wife's superior ju