ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
Flatonia, Tex.—“The box you spoke of in your letter was received last week. Maps are just what we need and will be a great help. Almost everything was of use, and I consider it a very valuable box, unusually so. I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to the donors if I knew them. Please do so for me. I know that those who keep up the supplies at home like to be assured that their gifts are appreciated.”
Colored Sunday-schools, N.C.—“Happy Greeting” Union Sunday-school is the name of one of eight schools organized during the last two months by a missionary of the American Sunday-school Union in North Carolina. “This name,” he writes, “was adopted by a cheerful crowd of colored people.” Another of these schools is called “Valley Home.” Very few among those people were able to read the Bible. In a class of twenty-five, only one could tell the name of the first book in it. Some said that Jacob built the ark. When asked how the Israelites expressed their joy after crossing the Red Sea in safety, one said: “I s’pose, sir, dey shot off big guns and holler’d!” and all present nodded their assent.