Another Sunday-school, at Little England, is conducted very largely by our Indians under the direction of teachers.  The Indian boys hold services at the jail and furnish music for an afternoon service at the Soldiers’ Home.  You would be interested to be here of a Sunday morning and see the happy groups of missionaries going forth in every direction, on foot, by boat, by wagon, to jail, to poor house, to the cottages of the old and sick, carrying the good news.  Every colored Sunday-school in the neighborhood has a large number of its teachers from the Normal school.  We consider this missionary work of the students most important in keeping up their interest in their own people, and in developing the Christ-like spirit of work for others.

Our school for Bible study, though cramped for room, is exerting an important influence on this community.  Almost all the colored pastors of the place have received instruction in its classes.  All the white pastors of the place, with one exception, take part in the instruction of their colored brethren.  This school has sent out colporteurs under the American Tract Society into the country about.  With what knowledge they have received here, they have been able to unite the office of teacher and preacher in the country districts; they have earned their way by the work of their hands and so secured a chance to preach.  In this way, they are able to stay in one community during the whole year.  One of these men went over to the eastern shore of Virginia last year; worked on the railroad during the day, taught a night school in the evening, got together a congregation, put up a comfortable church, building it largely with his own hands, and came back to school in the fall with money enough for his next year’s expenses.  One of the class sailed last spring for Africa.

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DEVELOPING PATRIOTISM AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE.

REV.  G.S.  ROLLINS.

The security of any nation rests largely upon the patriotism of its people.  America is in danger, not from foes without, but from within her own borders.  How to Americanize the foreign element, is the problem which confronts the people of our great cities; a question which more directly concerns the Northern portion of our country.

Here in the South is a different case.  We have eight million negroes—­ born Americans.  The one all-absorbing question is, how to fit them for citizenship—­how to make patriotic citizens of them.

Is patriotism in danger among the colored people?  Yes, and mainly for two reasons.