8. That whatever in politic or personal estate may betide the Freedmen, our business is to keep pegging away at the up-lifting process. Whether for the time their vote is allowed them or not; whether they be ku-kluxed or bush-whacked or bulldozed; whether the South favor this work or not, this one thing we have to do—to go forward patiently, kindly, and strongly in this rudimental work of Christian civilization. 9. That we are not to repress the emotional nature of this people, but to give it a basis of intelligence. This element, which is a beauty and a power in the endowment of man, abounds in the African mind; enriched by culture it may yet add a glory to our civilization. Barnabas Root and Prof. Blyden both argued that we should develop their race according to their idiosyncrasies; and yet the tendency seems to be that as they advance in cultivation they re-act to the more severe and logical style, and so lose somewhat of their power. We ought not to contribute to this result by our training process. Let them sing some of their rich “spirituals.” Give them our hymns and tunes that have an enlivening glow. Be not afraid to appeal to their hearts as well as to their heads. Let them be allowed the Pauline privilege of saying “Amen” to the “giving of thanks.” It is a robbery of this people to bring them down to the intellectual severity of the Puritans. It has been argued that we of the Caucasian blood have weakened ourselves by this ruling down of our emotional sentiments. It was a friend who said at Taunton, that what the Congregationalists needed was consecrated emotion. At the same place it was incorrectly argued that our system was not adapted to the freed people because of their tropical nature. Was it so with the Oriental nature 1,800 years ago? 10. That those who, in this work, during the years past, have gone on in the face of prejudice and ostracism and persecution, have made the way comparatively easy for those of us who join them now. * * * * * THE CENTRAL SOUTH CONFERENCE. The Annual Meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn. REV. S. S. ASHLEY, ATLANTA.