feast, burn the
Bible, and, in plain words, would do wonders, the like of which had
not been heard of for years. Accordingly, on Sunday morning, with a
few of his followers, he came to the house of a Negro, and during the
ceremony commanded a white woman to place her head on the table and
offer herself as a sacrifice. She refused, upon which a Negro woman
laid her head upon the table. He immediately raised an old cavalry
sword and, with one blow, nearly severed her head from her body, and
then commanded that they should "drag her out at once and put her with
her feet towards the East and she will rise after three days."

Soon there was a cry of murder raised; the false prophet was arrested
after a struggle, and he, with a number of his followers, was safely
lodged in the penitentiary, where it is to be hoped he will at least
be kept from cutting off any more women's heads. Oh, how great the
need of faithful men to lift up their voices like a trumpet, and spare
them not, and show to these needy people, so religiously inclined, the
way of truth!

TALLADEGA COLLEGE

was the next place visited. Beginning the New Year, which is usually
the "week of prayer," for two weeks the "old, old story" was told on
every night among the resident students and scholars. At other times,
services would be held in the Cassidy school in the morning, or in the
afternoon, as school duties would permit. The Theological class, as
well as the teachers and faculty, interested themselves greatly in
seeking to win the unsaved to Jesus. Following out the teaching of the
New Testament, the students {102} went out two and two in the
surrounding neighborhood, calling at the homes of the people,
conversing and praying in the family. They often returned with great
joy to tell of the success and kindness they had met wherever they
went. I am thankful to our blessed Lord to be able to report that not
only forty or more of the young people were converted but also that
professing Christians were strengthened in faith, all promising to do
what God had required of them and to go to their respective homes,
some of them hundreds of miles away, to make known a Saviour's love
and to carry light as far as possible in the surrounding darkness.
While here the Macedonian cry was heard from

JENIFER.

I went there for a brief service. The first night the church was full,
although the weather was stormy. The spirit of God brooded over the
meeting and five came