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Rev. Frank G. Woodworth writes from Tougaloo University.

The school is progressing well.  If we have the necessary accommodations, I see no reason why the school should not enrol 500 pupils within the next two years.  We have had nearly 340 thus far, and probably will reach 375 by the end of the year, and we have refused between 30 and 40 girls because we had no room for them.

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In the last MISSIONARY we gave quite an account of special religious services held in connection with the Le Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn.  In the brief extract below, from a letter of Prof.  Steele’s, we see some pleasant results: 

“Our special meetings in connection with Mr. Wharton’s stay of two weeks are closed.  There have been some eighty or more conversions in church and school; over sixty are students in school.  The work seems very genuine.”

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The announcement of the winners of the Tunis Quick prize for grammar and spelling has been made by the faculty of Rutgers College.  The prize was equally divided between James E. Carr of New York City, and Milton Demarest of Oredell, N.J.  Carr is colored.  Last year he took the highest honor at the grammar school commencement, delivering the valedictory and winning a prize scholarship.  He has only one eye.

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We would continue to remind pastors and churches of our Leaflets, which we will be happy to furnish, on application, to those taking collections for our Association.

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NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.

I recently spoke in a manufacturing town in New England.  In the forenoon service, a man, evidently an operative in one of the mills, sat in a front pew with a whole row of little children beside him, his wife at the end of the line with a baby in her lap.  In the evening, the same man and family, minus the mother and baby, occupied the same pew.  After the service, this man came to me, and with deep emotion said:  “I am only a working man; you saw my large family of little children; every penny I can earn counts, but I feel that I must divide the living of my children with these poor people you have told us of to-day.  We can get on with poorer food to give them the gospel.”

This was said in the accent that told that this Christian nobleman came from old covenant-making and covenant-keeping Scotland!  Not a very “dangerous foreigner!” Money given from such extreme sacrifice is sacred.  Would this spirit were universal!

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