THE WORK OF THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.

The great work done by this benevolent society of the Church among the colored people of the South deserves emphatic mention in connection with these tables of results which we have been giving. It will be impossible to tabulate perfectly statistical results among the colored people, as the work done has been for the populations of the South, regardless of color, and has so interpenetrated that it would be impossible to say that this was done for one race, and this for another. We may mention, however, the publication of the Good Tidings and its gratuitous distribution among the Sunday-schools of the colored people in the South. During the year 1888 the Sunday-school Union, in connection with the Tract Society, sent the Good Tidings to 2,536 Sunday-schools in 807 different charges in the Southern States. The weekly average of Good Tidings distributed was 37,134; total number of copies distributed during the year, 1,994,000; total number of pages, 7,976,000. No one can possibly estimate the great good which has been accomplished by the circulation of this excellent publication. Besides this, the Union has sent grants of Sunday-school libraries, music-books, catechisms, and Sunday-school periodicals of every possible description to all parts of the South, calling into existence new schools, and inspiring discouraged schools with new life. Possibly the most helpful work accomplished by this society has been its personal visitation in the person of its efficient agents in all parts of the South. Almost every section of the country has been touched. Extensive campaigns of work have been conducted. Weary and disheartened pastors have been encouraged; new schools have been organized, which have already grown into commanding churches; new and better methods of work have been taught a people who knew so little how to work; and because of this “hand-to-hand” effort immense good has been accomplished, and the Sunday-school Union stands well to the front among the benevolent societies of the Church, contributing to the growth of the Methodist Episcopal Church among the colored people of the South.

In addition to this official work for the Sunday-schools of the South, there were in several places organized efforts to collect and distribute second-hand books in needy localities. From Cincinnati many boxes of these were forwarded, that useful reading matter and school-books might be supplied by the proper agents to those who had not the means to purchase for themselves. These went largely into the cabins and cottages of the freedmen; and the first lessons in reading were learned by many who had no other teachers than those in the Sunday-schools. A single book served ofttimes for an entire family. Father, mother, and children were alike ignorant, and alike needed instruction.

THE FREEDMEN’S AID AND SOUTHERN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

Institutions among Colored People.

1. Collegiate.	Teachers	Students
Centenary Biblical Institute, Baltimore, Md.	12	223
Central Tennessee College, Nashville, Tenn.	22	545
Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C.	23	946
Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.	23	340
New Orleans University, New Orleans, La.	15	266
Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark.	12	185
Rust University, Holly Springs, Miss.	10	355
Wiley University, Marshall, Texas	17	230

2. Theological.
Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.	4	71

3. Biblical Departments.
Baker Institute, Claflin University	6	10
Centenary Biblical Institute (correspondence 6)	3	31
Central Tennessee College (correspondence 62)	2	102
Gilbert Haven School of Theology, New Orleans	3	15

4. Medical and Dental.
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn.	11	55
Medical Department New Orleans University (just organized)	5
Meharry Dental College, Nashville, Tenn.	8	11

5. Legal.
School, Central Tennessee College	6	6

6. Industrial.
Claflin College of Agriculture and Mechanics Inst., Orangeburg, S.C.	20	507
John F. Slater Schools of Industry, Nashville, Tenn.	8	194
Schools of Industry, New Orleans University	2	120
Schools of Industry, Rust University, Holly Springs, Miss.	4	35
Schools of Industry, Centenary Biblical Institute, Baltimore, Md.	4	53
Manual Training-school, Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark.	4	92
Industrial School, Bennett Seminary	3	11
Schools of Industry, Wiley University, Marshall, Texas	4	116
Schools of Industry, in Cookman Institute, Jacksonville, Fla.	2	18
Schools of Industry, Gilbert Seminary, Baldwin, La.	7	75
Classes in Huntsville Normal Institute, Huntsville, Ala.	2	27
Schools in Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.	10	204

7. Academic.
Bennett Seminary, Greensboro, N.C.	6	125
Baltimore City Academy, Baltimore, Md.[^[1]]
Central Alabama Academy, Huntsville, Ala.	4	140
Cookman Institute, Jacksonville, Fla.	6	321
Delaware Conference Academy, Princess Anne, Md.[^[1]]
Gilbert Seminary, Winsted, La.	17	299
Haven Normal School, Waynesboro, Ga.	3	153
LaGrange Seminary, LaGrange, Ga.	3	209
Meridian Academy, Meridian, Miss.	3	154
Morristown Seminary, Morristown, Tenn.	9	260
Samuel Houston College, Austin, Texas (not opened last year)
West Tennessee Seminary, Mason, Tenn.	2	149

[1]. Teachers and Students counted in Centenary Biblical Institute.

Institutions among White People.

1. Collegiate.
Chattanooga University, Chattanooga, Tenn.	9	161
Grant Memorial University, Athens, Tenn.	18	291
Little Rock University, Little Rock, Ark.	14	266
Texas Wesleyan College	10	240

2. Theological.
School, Chattanooga University	2	13
School, Grant Memorial University	3	27

3. Legal.
Class, Grant Memorial University	1	41
Class, Little Rock University	6	20

4. Academic.
Baldwin Seminary, Baldwin, La.	2	56
Bloomington College, Bloomington, Tenn.	4	138
Ellijay Seminary, Ellijay, Ga.	3	151
Graham Academy, Smyrna, N.C.	3	86
Holston Academy, New Market, Tenn.	2	90
Kingsley Seminary, Bloomingdale, Tenn.	4	131
Leicester Seminary, Leicester, N.C.	4	136
Mallalieu Academy, Kinsey, Ala.	2	65
McLemoresville Institute, McLemoresville, Tenn.	7	114
Mt. Zion Seminary, Mt. Zion, Ga.	4	140
Powell’s Valley, Well Spring, Tenn.	4	175
Parrottsville Academy, Parrottsville, Tenn.	3	125
Roanoke Academy, Roanoke, Va. (not opened past year)
Trapp Hill Academy, Trapp Hill, N.C.	2	125
Warren College, Chucky City, Tenn.	4	155
Woodland Academy, Cumberland, Miss.	2	72

Recapitulation.

	Among Colored People.
Grade of Schools.	Number	Teachers	Students
Collegiate	8	134	3,090
Theological Seminary	1	4	71
Biblical Departments	4	14	158
Medical Departments	2	11	55
Dental Department	1	8	11
Legal Department	1	6	6
Industrial Departments	12	70	1,455
Academies	12	60	1,810
Totals.[^[2]]	21	223	4,971

	Among White People
Grade of Schools.	Number	Teachers	Students
Collegiate	4	51	958
Theological Seminary
Biblical Departments	2	5	40
Medical Departments
Dental Department
Legal Department	2	7	61
Industrial Departments
Academies	16	54	1,759
Totals.[^[2]]	20	105	2,717

	Total.
Grade of Schools.	Number	Teachers	Students
Collegiate	12	146	4,048
Theological Seminary	1	4	71
Biblical Departments	6	19	198
Medical Departments	2	11	55
Dental Department	1	8	11
Legal Department	3	13	67
Industrial Departments	12	70	1,455
Academies	28	114	3,569
Totals.[^[2]]	41	328	7,688

[2]. In these totals students and teachers are counted but once; and departments are not counted as separate institutions.

In twenty-two years the Freedmen’s Aid and Southern Education Society has expended in the work of Christian education in the South about $2,500,000.

The present value of the property owned by the Society in the South is over $1,500,000. This includes lands—some of which have increased in value—school buildings, furniture, and libraries. More than one hundred thousand colored students have been in the various schools, and a reasonable estimate is, that the preachers and teachers in public and private schools, from among this multitude, have had under their influence fully one million of the youth and adults of the South. No words can adequately express the far-reaching and glorious results already achieved, and yet to flow, from this ever-widening current of intellectual and moral power.