Many prayers will go with him across the sea, and many welcomes will greet him on his return.

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SOUTHERN ECHOES.

PRAYERS OF WOMEN AT THE MEETING OF FAREWELL TO A MISSIONARY.

“O!  Lord, thou knowest how I love her.  Thou knowest how I have run to her in every trouble, as a chicken does to its mother.”

“O!  Lord, you know what she has been to me in the greatest trouble I ever had.  You know I think more of her than of any being in the whole world, except my husband.  Will you please to be with her when she gets ready for the train, and when she goes from the house to the train, and on the train, and when she goes to the house from the train, and bless her all the time.”

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Mrs. W——­, an old lady, said:  “My old man ax me every night when he come from work if there be a meeting up yonder.  He do like to go to meeting.  He think a heap of that young preacher up yonder.  Last Wednesday night after meeting, he say to me, ’Mary, I’ll be good to you after this,’ and I say the same to him.  It do me a heap of good to go up yonder.  I learn more than I ever knowed before.  I knows what the texts means now.”

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SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED.—­A few days since, during a recitation in geography, a teacher was endeavoring to explain the subject of electricity in the lesson on “Thunder and lightning.”  It had been stated that when a flash of lightning darts to the earth it is said to strike.  A precocious lad of twelve summers (winters included), raised his hand and upon recognition said:  “Do people have any electricity?” Upon being informed that every one possessed the subtle force in a greater or less degree, his dusky, good-natured face lighted up, and he added, “Then is that the reason why some people always want to strike?”

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BOOK NOTICE

Pleas for Progress. By ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, D.D.  Publishing House of M.E.  Church South, Nashville, Tenn.  Price, $1.00.

Dr. Haygood is a Southern man who stands with his face toward sunrise and not sunset.  As a writer, he is interesting and vigorous.  He sometimes forgets to take off his “Titbottom spectacles” when he looks southward, but he puts in tremendous blows against the wrong which he sees.  This volume before us contains papers and addresses delivered at various times and places, both North and South.  It is a very valuable book for those who desire to learn what the really Christian people of the South think on these great National problems that the American Missionary Association is helping to solve.

The lecture on “The Education of the Negro,” delivered at Monteagle, Tenn., and published in this volume, is a sample.  Dr. Haygood states “four root objections” to negro education:  1—­Ignorance; 2—­Stinginess; 3—­Prejudice; 4—­Fear that education will “spoil the negro as a laborer” and bring him into “social equality” with the whites.  The author shows the absurdity of all these objections.