These large institutions are the centers of still larger missionary work outside.  One professor in Talladega, a graduate of Harvard, has been especially busy during the last year, developing the Sunday-school work in the surrounding districts.  The following are some of the results:—­ eight Sunday-schools enrolling about five hundred scholars; thirty teachers, all students in the College; two schools meet in buildings belonging to the College, three in log churches, owned by other denominations, not having Sunday-schools, two in log cabins.  “In one school, teachers and scholars have to huddle together under umbrellas, if they have any, or go wet, if they haven’t them, whenever it rains; and it is a sight which makes one long for better accommodations, that more efficient work may be done,” writes this self-sacrificing professor in a note just received.  In one house, he found a family of white children, all of them very ignorant, and, so far as he was able to discover, there was not a single book of any kind in the cabin.  He invited the children to Sunday-school, where, like Robert Raikes, he teaches reading and spelling as well as the Bible, but the mother indignantly refused, saying that she “didn’t let her children go to school with Niggers!”

There are many evidences of heroic sacrifice on the part of the people among whom we labor, that one runs across in such a trip as this.  Here is one:  A small church in Alabama has recently voted to pay fifty dollars per month of their pastor’s salary, that they may become self-supporting, and so let the funds which they have received go to other more needy fields.  There are seventy-five persons in this church who might be termed paying members; of all these, the pastor informed me, not more than fifteen receive over a dollar per day; sixty receive less than this.  They pay, on an average, ten dollars per month for rent; there are twenty-six working-days to the month, and they often lose at least five of these, on account of weather or lack of work, making an income of only twenty-one dollars per month.  Ten dollars going for rent, leaves but eleven dollars for the support of the family.  Pretty heroic economy that!

The Annual Meeting of the Dakota Mission, the Convention of missionaries who are at work in the Indian field under the direction of this Association, gathered at Santee Agency, Nebraska, Saturday, June 15, and was full of interest.  Sessions were held for three days, and continued late into the night.  Thrilling incidents of exposure on the prairie during winter, swimming swollen and chilly streams, breaking through the ice when crossing, which, in one case, resulted in the drowning of a team of horses, seemed to be every-day incidents in the life of these heroic missionaries, who are carrying on this noble work among the Indians.  The two Riggs brothers, whose heredity as well as personal consecration fit them for large usefulness in the Indian work, were especially rich in experience and inspiring