Atlanta, Ga.—Miss Ella W. Moore, a teacher in the Atlanta University, has, by the special aid of friends, been able to employ a teacher in a private school opened under her auspices. In addition to the receipts in money, she has recently received (for which she makes grateful acknowledgment) from Mrs. John B. Gough, Worcester, Mass., patchwork, pictures, cards, tracts, etc.; from Mrs. J. B. Shaw, Paxton, Ill., and Miss Amy Blatchford, Chicago, valuable Sabbath-school papers and periodicals.
Meridian, Miss.—By a council on the 15th of Dec., Mr. J. L. Grice, a graduate of the college and theological department in Howard University, a member of Dr. J. E. Rankin’s church, was ordained as pastor after a most satisfactory examination. Sermon and right-hand of fellowship, by Superintendent Roy; charge to the candidate, by Rev. E. C. Stickel; address to the church, by Rev. C. B. Curtis; and prayer of ordination, by Bishop Turner of the African M. E. Church, the members of the council joining him in laying on of hands. As the Bishop was holding a Conference in the city, he attended both the afternoon and evening services of the Council, after the members of that body had waited upon the Conference in the morning. The Bishop stated that in attending a great many examinations, he had never come upon a better one.
Owing to the space occupied by the list of our appointments for the year we have been obliged to omit the publication of General Notes and to hold over other matters of interest.
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
1882-1883.
The following list presents the names and post-office addresses of those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions and Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among the Freedmen in the South, and the Chinese on the Pacific Coast. The Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their own Boards of Trustees, but being either founded or fostered in the past by this Association, and representing the general work in which it is engaged their teachers are included in this list.
THE SOUTHERN FIELD.
Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., Field Superintendent.