ain of
mustard seed. Let us hear the voice which adds to our great
commission the promise: "Lo, I am with you alway." Let us take
courage at the remembrance of mercies past. With all these
difficulties upon us it still remains true that no other
non-Protestant foreigners are as accessible to us as the Chinese; and
that in proportion to the resources of men and money used, scarcely
any evangelistic work yields equal visible returns. There is only one
thing to do--for Christ's sake, for our country's sake, for the sake
of the uncounted millions beyond the sea--we must, and we will, claim
and conquer these precious souls for their Redeemer and our Lord.

WM. C. POND.

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THE SOUTH.

PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.

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FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.

A CLASS OF FIFTEEN GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE.

Anniversary week at Fisk University is closed. Its alternate shower
and sunshine have fairly represented the rejoicing and the sadness
that always come with this harvest time of the year. The week began
on the evening of Friday, May 22, with the exhibition of the Senior
Preparatory Class, and was followed by the Baccalaureate and
Missionary sermons on Sunday, the anniversaries of the literary
societies and the alumni association, and the graduating exercises of
the Normal Department on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the final
great day of the feast, the College Commencement, on Thursday, May
28.

This programme has become so fixed that to go over it in detail would
be monotonous; let us rather note a few of the significant and
interesting facts that belong particularly to this anniversary week.
The comparatively large size of the classes entering and leaving
college has been one marked feature and a source of great
encouragement. Thirteen young men and three young women were received
into the Freshman class, and a few days later thirteen young men and
two young women, having completed four years of college work, took
the degree of B. A. This is more than double the largest class ever
before graduated from Fisk, and while the increase in numbers cannot
yet be sustained with regularity from year to year, it does show a
growth in our work and a strengthening of purpose on the part of our
young people. In 1874, a class of six young men entered college, but
only two ever got beyond the threshold: the others lost heart