AT GREENWOOD, S.C., the interests are so great and the appeals were so reasonable, that it was voted to enlarge the facilities for the growing institution; but at the last we could not do this, and the laborers there continue their prayers and their hopes.

THE LINCOLN NORMAL INSTITUTE at Marion, Ala., was established in the year 1868, by the A.M.A.  In the year 1874, the State of Alabama asked to assume the school, which had won a good name, and to increase its facilities for the education of the Negro.  This was done.  Last year, the work was deserted by the State and came anew into our hands.  This, also, is an enlargement upon our schedule of work.

At LEXINGTON, KY., our Normal School has grown to such a degree that even the vestibules and halls of our insufficient building were crowded with eager pupils.  Teachers were teaching, and pupils were studying, in conditions that none but missionary teachers would accept.  For lack of room, industrial training has been impossible.  The locality, meanwhile, has been surrounded by saloons, and houses that are worse.  A benevolent lady who became acquainted with these facts offered $2,000 to purchase four acres of land for school and industrial purposes, and to give money sufficient for a new brick edifice with eight large school-rooms and all needful appointments and furnishings; the gift amounting to $15,000.

We believe that we were not wrong in accepting this trust in your behalf, even though it means more teachers and increased expenditures.  We are confident that your Christian faith would not decline this Christian benevolence.  Hence the plans for Chandler School are in the hands of the builders.  Could some like-minded wealthy steward of the grace of God visit Williamsburg, Ky., in our Mountain White work, we might be compelled to face another such dilemma.

AT MERIDIAN, MISS., where Christian parents have besought us for years, past to open a missionary school, through which their children might be saved to morality and integrity of character during the formative periods of their lives, we have at last seen our way to answer their pathetic appeal in part.  A day school with an industrial department is ready for the opening, the building having been constructed during the months of summer.  For valuable aid in sympathy, counsel and influence in Meridian, we and the people to whom we are sent are greatly indebted to Rev. Wm. Hayne Leavell, of Meridian.

WHITNEY HALL, for the Indian boys at Santee Agency, is another noble gift of large Christian faith for our Normal School in Nebraska.  We summoned our courage to take this, also, with what the enlargement includes.

These are the chief additions to our system of schools, though there have been less marked enlargements in other places.  They are simply the growths of strong faith and strong life.  They are the free and special gifts which came to us through the convictions of others who had realized the need.