These Normal Schools are located in WILMINGTON, N.C., CHARLESTON and GREENWOOD, S.C., ATLANTA, MACON, SAVANNAH, THOMASVILLE and MCINTOSH, GA., MOBILE, ATHENS and MARION, ALA., MEMPHIS, JONESBORO, GRAND VIEW and PLEASANT HILL, TENN., LEXINGTON and WILLIAMSBURG, KY., to which must be added the large Normal and Industrial School at Santee Agency, Nebraska, the Oahe Industrial School and the Fort Berthold Industrial School, both in Dakota, and all three for the Indians, making altogether 20.  The Association provides also the entire teaching force at the Ramona Indian School at Santa Fe, New Mexico.  To these Normal Schools, we may add the six normal departments in our colleges with their superior normal instruction.  From nearly all of these, strong appeals for enlargement have come to meet the demands of a healthy growth.  We have cut, trimmed and denied, with a resolution that has been painful both in the office and in the field, and yet the growth is upon us.  Without pushing our work, it is pushing us.

While ignorant millions need the truth and knowledge which we have, and there are resources in the hands of the disciples of Christ enough for this vast and increasingly urgent work, the necessity of denying the provisions for the development of success becomes well-nigh oppressive.

AT PLEASANT HILL, TENN., an important centre in our Mountain work, we have now, in addition to the new church, a school building unequalled in that region.  A second building for a dormitory and boarding hall is nearly completed.

THE GRAND VIEW ACADEMY in the Mountain region, has also increased its school accommodations, and the look forward is to a large institution with far-reaching influence in the valley of the Cumberland and on the plateau.  If we are to hold this region, we must take possession now.

We have also reassumed charge of a school at Beaufort, N.C.  The people are already appealing to us in the accents of their own sacrifices for its immediate enlargement.

Providentially, and without our solicitation, a generous giver, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who had already added to many large benevolences in the South, the fine building known as Ballard Hall and the excellent shops for industrial training at Tougaloo, made a proffer of $11,500 to erect at Macon, Ga., a school building of brick, capable of accommodating six hundred pupils.  This successful school had grown until it had taken possession of the church building for school purposes.  This noble gift, bestowed after a personal inspection on the part of Mr. Ballard, and upon personal conviction of its immediate necessity, could not be refused, and the substantial and spacious building, with its furnishings, is now nearly ready for occupancy.  It will call for increased contributions from the churches.

DORCHESTER ACADEMY, at McIntosh, Ga., is in a rice region remote from civilization and educational privileges, among thousands of Negro people very ignorant and poor.  It cannot receive the pupils who beg for admission.  Children are punctual at school from a distance of eight miles, lest they shall lose their privileges by tardiness or absence.  Africa itself could scarcely send out a cry of greater need.  We had decided to increase the capacity of this school, but are compelled to wait.