The completion of the building and fencing the grounds, which is an absolute necessity, with the cost of furnishing, call for at least $2,000 more. This should be provided at once; then land is needed; thousands of colored youth in Texas greatly desire an education; they are worthy, but poor. Yet their highest good requires that they pay for their education. And, since this is not possible in many cases, some means should be provided by which they can. The most practical way is to have land which they can work.
The result would be advantageous in two ways: First, it would enable them to maintain their self-respect; they would feel that they were not receiving bounty, but were paying their way; this would make them more manly. Second, it would be a practical school where they would be taught the best methods of agriculture; this would be a priceless benefit to them.
But the Institution owns no land save the spot upon which the building stands. There are, however, some 450 acres of the first quality joining the Institution grounds for sale. True, since close to the city it is dear; but when once bought and paid for, these acres become a bank that will never fail, and always pay good dividends. It would be a wise and noble act for some one to buy this land and present it to the Institution; with it the possibilities of Tillotson Institute would be greatly magnified.
Who will purchase the farm, and giving it his own name, present it to the youngest child of the A. M. A.?
Finally, we are all more than pleased with the field and its work. It exceeds even our expectations; the climate is delightful, the location unsurpassed, the present inspiring, and the future radiant with hope.
It gives us pleasure to announce the safe arrival of Rev. Henry M. Ladd and Rev. Kelly M. Kemp, with his wife, at Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 23d, after a favorable and altogether agreeable passage from Liverpool. They were cordially welcomed on their arrival by the missionaries at that point on the coast.
The Memphis Appeal declares that there can be no excuse for allowing the work for the colored people at the LeMoyne Institute of that city to be sustained entirely by the friends of the A. M. A. North. It suggests also that the citizens of Memphis provide the improved facilities needful for the best development of the work of this eminently worthy Institution.