We make our tribute to the gracious memory of her whose words went out into all the world and extended to the ends of the earth:  and we ask remembrance of those who under the same inspiration are living among the children of these liberated ones and are taking with them the love and wisdom of Him who was “anointed to preach the gospel to the poor, the recovery of sight to the blind, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

We are sometimes asked how this work of education, which Mrs. Stowe did more than any other person to inaugurate, is regarded by the intelligent white people of the South.  We can gladly say that we have too much recognition and appreciation of our work among good people of the South to be otherwise than thankful for it, and for the fact that these good people are increasing every year in numbers and in readiness to encourage us.  We have never united in more earnest prayers for our work, and for those who carry it on, even in our annual meetings than in our worship in the South with many Southern pastors, and nowhere have we heard more appreciative words respecting our work than from good people of the South who have acquainted themselves with what we are doing and how we are doing it.  That multitudes are still unable to see and unready to prophesy does not count.  The day of appreciative recognition has not fully come, but it has dawned, and will come by and by.

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THE HISTORIES OF OUR CHURCHES.

We have asked the pastors of some of our churches to give to us sketches of the histories of those churches—­their location, pastors and membership, the condition of their members financially and otherwise, how many have homes of their own, and what are their employments.  The details are truthful and are of value as showing the people in their church, home, and business life.

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DEER LODGE, TENN.

By Mrs. Ella Gill Sedgwick.

Deer Lodge, on the Cumberland Plateau in east Tennessee, is delightfully located.  The adjacent country is highly picturesque—­rocky cliffs, deep ravines, winding wooded streams, giving beauty to the landscape.  To the eastward, stretching far in undulating lines, are the mountains, seen through a purple mist of great beauty.  We often repeat the words, “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people.”  We are nearly 2,000 feet above the level of the sea, so the air is pure and healthful.  A spicy fragrance fills the air, blown down from the pines that crown the hills.

Deer Lodge has been settled mostly by Northern people.  In a religious point of view we are divided into Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists, with a few Episcopalians.  There is only one church building, however, the Congregationalists’.  This is a beautiful little edifice worthy of the growing importance of this interesting field on the Cumberland Plateau.  The church has a choice location on Ross Avenue.