GEORGIA.
STORRS SCHOOL.
By Miss Amy Williams, Atlanta.
During the summer the city of Atlanta erected a beautiful eight room colored school building not more than sixty rods from the Storrs School. We all said, surely the number attending our school will be greatly diminished by this new free school; consequently, only four teachers were summoned to be on the ground ready for the opening of school on September 5; but as 280 pupils filed into the school building, we saw that we had underestimated the force needed, and our fifth teacher was called in, and before the expiration of two weeks the sixth one was installed in her old place, and we are now hard at work with 350 pupils enrolled, and new ones are being admitted almost every day.
This new colored school, which we can see so plainly from our home, is a constant inspiration for us to work on with new courage, for its eight faithful teachers, with one exception, have been first trained at Storrs School and afterward at Atlanta University.
This good work loses none of its fascination for us; we only mourn that time and strength are not given us to accomplish more.
Mr. Kent, our new pastor, comes with perfect health, and is brim-full of enthusiasm and earnest desire to do the people good. His earnestness, supplemented by the experience and good judgment of Miss Stevenson, the city missionary, must tell upon the church and people generally.