ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
Orangeburg, S.C.—The people here are rejoicing in a new $50 bell bought by themselves. They have also put up a bell tower.
Tuskegee, Ala.—Mr. B. T. Washington writes: “Please allow me space to express the thanks of this school to the Smith American Organ Company, of Boston, for the donation of one of their superior cabinet organs. It is a valuable addition to our school.”
Athens, Ala.—Rev. H. S. Williams writes of a union effort in the churches at this place, which has proved a success. Twenty-seven conversions are reported as the result.
Savannah, Ga.—The Sabbath-school has begun to yield excellent fruit. Having $30 in the treasury they voted to send one of their number to Atlanta University for a year. After a spirited contest on the part of several members of the school to win the prize the decision was finally favorable to Palmer Lloyd, a boy of about 15 years. He went to Atlanta in time for the opening of the term. Fifty dollars in all were needed to insure him a year’s study. To raise the remaining $20 the Sabbath school gave a musical entertainment and ice-cream supper and were successful in raising the amount needed.
First Impressions of a New Teacher.—After nearly two months’ work I feel that I am more interested than when I came, which I thought would be impossible. The work is more vast and awful in its importance. I do not wonder, as I did at first, at the careworn faces of the teachers who have been long in the work. The possibilities for good or ill of the race are to be contemplated by us only with fear and trembling, unless God works through and by us. I enjoy the work heartily. It consists, more than I could before understand, in laying foundations.
Impressions of a Teacher of Long Experience South.—I am sure, in our busy and crowded life, most of us teachers especially fail to realize how broad and comprehensive our work at the South is; how what we do, well or poorly, is to affect the whole educational interest at the South where everything is in a transition state. Should we not, in view of what our work and influence have accomplished in the past, and in view of our greater and growing opportunities for the future, should we not be aroused to a sense of these things that we may make the most of our chances in this direction?