JACKSON ST. CHURCH, NASHVILLE, TENN.—­Yesterday was a red-letter day for Jackson Street Church.  It was communion day.  Two were baptized and admitted to the church.  Our congregation numbered more than one hundred, the largest audience we have yet had.  It was also the day for special collection.  We collected thirteen dollars.  This was done by means of the envelope system without any blast of bugle.  There were eleven conversions in the Sunday-school recently.

HOWARD CHAPEL, NASHVILLE, TENN.—­Our attendance this month has never fallen below forty-five.  One of the established churches of the city with a membership five times as large as ours has an average of ten to its prayer meetings.  We have fifteen or twenty.  We have also organized a Y.P.S.C.E. and a Bible class.  It is the purpose of this class to study Biblical biographies.  We have studied so far the lives of Joseph, Moses, Daniel, Esther, Ruth and David.  It would do your heart good to see with what enthusiasm the young people have entered upon this study and how they master even the minutest details.  I have every hope in the world for Howard Chapel.

SAVANNAH, GA.—­Some years ago our flock was the smallest, now we have the largest Sunday-school and congregation.  The history of this church is wonderful.  God has been merciful towards it.  Some who were our strongest enemies years ago are now our best workers.  I have a plan for next winter, to open a night school and draw the young people from sin and Satan to our blessed Lord.  July the 18th, Brother L. and myself went to Porter’s and made a start on our meeting house.  The man who gave the land cut down trees, Brother L. dug holes and we planted the posts.  Brother L. went back and bought five hundred feet of lumber, and with God’s help we intend to take the train some day and finish our humble place of worship.

NORTH ATHENS, TENN.—­The church members gather with the children every Friday afternoon to teach both boys and girls various kinds of work.  Capitalists and speculators are searching among the mountains for coal, iron and timber.  Why should not the Christian church search out the poor mountaineers and bring them to Christ.  Most of them were loyal to the country.  Slavery has for several generations denied them the advantages of education.  God has opened the door and bids us go in with the Bible and the spelling-book to give to two millions of these people in our own country a better culture, a purer Gospel.  There are vast stores of wealth in these mountains, but nothing of such value as the souls of this people.

Straight University.
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We are glad to copy from the Burlington (Vt.) Daily Free Press the following commendation of two of the appointees of this Association, both graduates of the University of Vermont.  Mr. Atwood enters our service for the first time; Mr. Henderson has already shown his efficiency in our work as a preacher, and will enter upon