| 10:00 A.M. | —Praise service. |
| 10:15 A.M. | —President’s address. |
| 10:30 A.M. | —What is necessary to Christian growth? |
| 11:00 A.M. | —How to make a success of B. Y. P. U. in country churches. |
| 11:30 A.M. | —The importance of good reading matter. |
| 12:00 P.M. | —Literature. |
| 2:00 P.M. | —A model meeting. |
| 2:30 P.M. | —Address: The work of the B. Y. P. U. in evangelizing the world. |
| 3:00 P.M. | —Best methods for promoting temperance. |
| 3:30 P.M. | —Report of local Unions. |
| 4:00 P.M. | —Business. |
| 7:00 P.M. | —Praise and conference and collection. |
| 8:00 P.M. | —Echoes from the Toronto Convention. |
These topics, etc., show the lines of thought upon which the mind is working. How different things are now from what they were in 1835, when Job Davis, the African preacher, toiled by the side of his fellow slaves all day and dreamed at night of his far off home over the great sea! Now in the valley where his famous camp-meeting sermon melted the heart of the white people into a condition of submission to Jesus and into hope of the coming world—where the black man knew only spade, plow and hoe—we have the Negro M. D., Negro druggist, Negro dentist, Negro banker, Negro author, Negro merchant, Negroes worshiping in brick churches, Negro scientists, and white people using Negro inventions. Here are Banker B. H. Hudson, Druggist I. B. Kigh, Drs. Goin, Brown, and U. G. Mason, Inventor Andrew Beard, with orators and educators many. “What shall the harvest be?”
Miss Hardie Martin, Teacher in Public School, Montgomery, Ala.
THE MULBERRY ASSOCIATION.
Organized in 1882, is composed of only a few churches, chief among which we may mention: New Zion, Mt. Pleasant and Spring Hill, Elba post office; Mt. Calvary, Damascus and Antioch, Rose Hill post office; Friendship and Pleasant Ridge, Henderson post office; Mt. Olive and St. John, Luverne post office. They have between 1,200 and 1,500 members.
LEADING MEN.
Revs. G. Stringer, M. H. Henderson, G. B. Gibson, C. P. Larkin, D. F. White and J. S. Lee.
MUD CREEK ASSOCIATION.
Organized in 1873, is a small body of very poor churches, located in Jackson county. There were a few rich slaveholders in said county, among whom was the Rev. Charles Roach, Sr. On his plantation there were three preachers, one Methodist and two Baptist. The Baptist preachers were Thomas and Perkins. Like many other ex-slaves, they retained the name of their master, and became known as Revs. Thomas and Perkins Roach. Rev. Robert Caver, at an early date after the close of the war, came into the county a Baptist preacher. These men became the organizers of the work in this county. The county is no longer so full of colored people as once it was, and hence the churches are very small and can’t support their pastors. Revs. James Larkin, Lewis Roach, T. J. Roach, Lewis Henshaw, F. Cobb, C. L. Lovelady, J. W. Robinson are doing what they can to keep up the work but they labor under great difficulties. It is the purpose of some to attempt to establish a school at Hollywood. If this project should mature there is a prophecy of better conditions in time to come.