ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.
Talladega, Ala.—“There are five Sunday-school prayer-meetings every Sabbath afternoon, in which much feeling is manifested. In these meetings four have expressed the hope of a new life. Others are much interested.”
Tougaloo, Miss.—“There is considerable religious interest. Several are inquiring, and a few profess conversion. We are running over with students. We have put up a bed in the north recitation-room of the primary building, and shall probably have to arrange another bed in the same room before this week closes. We know of others that are coming next week, and so on, and what are we going to do with them? We have concluded to purchase lumber at once and put up barracks for twenty students, for the prospect is that we shall have that many more young men. We can accommodate six or eight young women in the Peoria room. The erection of barracks will involve an outlay of some three hundred dollars; but the lumber will all come in play when we build the new chapel, which we shall be obliged to have before the sessions of the next year begin. If the school continues to prosper we shall probably commence another year with a hundred boarders.”
Nashville, Tenn.—“We have a good school this year; about 270 in all. We hold a half-hour extra meeting in the boarding department. Some inquirers. About twenty conversions last term.”
Atlanta, Ga.—“School is full. We have more pupils than for several years before. There is some religious interest, though not so much as we wish. Our purpose and hope is to make you a big contribution toward the debt, by not asking you for any aid this year.”