Many of our young people are in Storrs School or Atlanta University. One has just graduated from the theological department in Howard University; six or more, now or formerly members of our church, are at work in the Gospel ministry, and two score or more are, or have been, engaged in teaching among their people.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CHURCH.
REV. C. W. FRANCIS.
The church of Christ in Atlanta University is made up entirely of teachers and pupils in that school, and so has a somewhat different sphere from many of our sister churches. It now numbers 88 members, having received larger accessions during the past year than in any other year of its history, 22 having joined, all save two upon profession of faith.
A very gracious revival prevailed for the last five months of the school year, during which time more than 50 persons were converted, several more of whom will unite with this church after longer experience, and the rest with churches at their homes. It was a delightful and precious work, affecting nearly every member of the school, quickening the religious life of former members, and gathering in a harvest week by week up to the close of the year.
The temperance work is made a special care, as the need for it is so great, and all who go away to teach during their summer vacation, as all do save six or eight of the younger members, have furnished them a package of selected temperance literature, and are instructed in methods for its use, after careful instruction upon the general subject, so that all are engaged in mission work of that character in the schools which they teach and the families which they visit.
About $75 was raised during the year at the monthly missionary meetings, which was given to promote the temperance work.
About 75 members of the church are now engaged in teaching their summer schools, most of them taking the lead in Sunday-schools, and so exercising a genuine missionary influence over a great number of people.