Destitution and ignorance like this may be found all through the South, but just such families have been reached and redeemed by our missionaries, and if all are not reached, it is simply because we do not send the missionaries, for allowing every discouragement that exists the fact still remains that there is no missionary work on the earth so hopeful and so rich and so rapid in its results as work among the colored people South.
THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., Field Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.
TENNESSEE.
INTERESTING EXERCISE IN FISK UNIVERSITY.
By Rev. H. S. Bennett, Nashville.
The first Friday night of the term we listened to reports from those of the students who had taught school during the vacation. It was expected that those who spoke would give as correct an idea as possible of the colored people, their interest in education, the condition of the crops, whether the people were getting possession of land, and all other items of interest relating to their work.