t numbers,
to throw away all that has been done for them. That they feel this is
shown by the frequent and earnest appeals which come from them to have
virtuous and educated ministers sent for the starting of better
churches among their homes.

[Illustration: SCHOOL AT KING'S MOUNTAIN]

While this is the narrow and local influence of our smaller schools,
it is also the broader and deeper influence of our larger schools,
like that at All Healing, N. C. (King's Mountain P. O.) Here the
religious life is intensified. A number of devoted teachers supplement
each other's work. A unique Congregational church has been formed, its
pastor being the principal of the school, who adds this work to all
his other services. The influence of the constant religious work done
in this church-school and school-church is felt a hundred miles
around. Young men and young women go out with higher ideals, and they
awaken a demand in their home neighborhoods for both religion and
education of a higher character. It is not too much to say that such
work as that of Miss Cathcart and her fellow teachers at King's
Mountain tends toward a general advance of the communities from which
her pupils come.

[Illustration: HAGAN COUNC'L.]

In Georgia, after the Eureka church movement was noised about, Mr.
Fletcher received and now receives calls from every side, chiefly from
the plantation people. At Piney Grove, a preaching station was begun
in an old dwelling house, and a little church of twelve members is the
result. At Shady Grove, ten miles away, a small church building is
going up for the brotherhood there. The ground was given and the work
of building is carried on by a respectable colored farmer of the
neighborhood, who with many of his neighbors welcomes a church
fellowship which stands for education and pure religion. At Alford, in
the adjoining county, there is now a membership of thirty-two, for
whose use a comfortable church building is furnished by the white
people. This, with Nellwood as an out-station, will probably soon
receive an excellent pastor, trained in our Congregational ways and
principles. A beginning has been made at Portal, twelve miles beyond.
In the next county westward, the church work began at Swainsboro with
twenty-nine members, at Kemp with seventeen members, near Garfield
with thirteen members, and at Pilgrim with twenty-three members.

Word comes to us that Mr. Fletcher, who is covering three counties in
his work,