[Illustration:  DANIEL HAND KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY SCHOOL.]

Around three great fundamental ideas the work of Tougaloo, with its nearly 400 students and 23 instructors, with its theological, college preparatory, normal, agricultural, industrial, musical, and nurse training departments, its religious work, is grouped and carried on with notable success.  These are the development of the family and home, leadership, and pure religious life.  Who will endow a chair?  Who will endow the University, and perpetuate one’s influence in a most fruitful way?  Successful as Tougaloo has been, its largest, widest work is yet to come.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL—­SPECIAL METHOD.

MRS. G. W. ANDREWS, TALLADEGA, ALA.

[Illustration:  McCHARITY SUNDAY-SCHOOL MISSION.]

There has been much enthusiasm here since Sabbath morning in starting an “Abraham Lincoln Cent Association” in order to give the poorest among our people an opportunity to do something toward helping to lift the debt of the American Missionary Association.  There will be four departments of giving, one cent per day, one per week, one per month, and five dollars will constitute one a memorial member of the Association.  The collection from those who pay a cent a day will be taken at the time of devotional exercise in the schools in the morning; the cent per week every Tuesday morning, the cent per month on the twelfth day of each month.  Every quarter the treasurer will gather the different sums and send to the American Missionary Association treasury.  The twelfth day of February each year will be a rallying day, when we trust much more will be realized.  It is hoped by those who have this plan in hand, and we are all working in unison here in it, to extend it throughout all of our schools and churches in the South, that the present debt of the American Missionary Association may be brought close to their hearts, and kept there, as the proposition is that this association shall continue until the debt is lifted.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL DAY IN THE SOUTH.

BY REV.  W. J. LARKIN.

On Lincoln’s birthday most of the churches connected with the American Missionary Association in the South took occasion to make a contribution to it, and many gifts not large in themselves, but representing a great deal of sacrifice, have been received by our treasurer in New York.  The pastor of our church in Marion, Alabama, sends a contribution of over $16 from his church, which amount represents more sacrifices than thousands of dollars would represent from many of our more favored churches.  He writes:  “We had a Lincoln’s exercise on Lord’s day, 10th, by the school at the church.  It was a very cold, dark night, but our offering was $16.09.  You will consider the hard times here—­and they are hard, indeed, this year—­we have had intense cold now nearly two months with the mercury nearly to zero.  When ice is six inches thick in this part of Alabama it means intense suffering for the half-clad and half-fed negroes.  We add to this $16.09, $11.26, which we have collected at our missionary prayer meetings, making in all $27.35.”