The Sabbath before school opened I went into the country, eight miles from here. One of the students had been working there during the vacation, teaching day-school, without receiving enough to pay his board, carrying on a very successful S. S., and holding meetings. I believe twelve had shown a change of heart and life. Nearly one hundred people met in and around a log schoolhouse hardly large enough to hold half the number. Those outside, however, were about as favorably situated as those within, for the crevices between the logs were about as large as the logs themselves. A Congregational church, of six men and women, was organized. Three others expected to unite with them, but were kept away that day. Four or five more will unite soon, and we have reason to expect a vigorous church there. It is one of the best and largest neighborhoods in the region, and the people have already set to work upon a church building. The next Sabbath I was there again, and baptized six persons. Last Sabbath I went up to Anniston, twenty-five miles away, where another student is in charge of the Congregational church. There have been twenty-one conversions in this church during the summer. I immersed nine, baptized nine by sprinkling, and received nineteen into the church. The little church building was crowded to its utmost capacity in the evening, hardly room enough being left upon the platform for the speaker. The church and parsonage adjoining, finished and painted with taste, clean and tidy inside and out, as well as the energetic and faithful pastor and his wife, and their earnest, quiet, decorous people, remind one of a New England village church. The contrast with most of the neighboring churches is very marked. I go again next Sabbath to Childersburg, twenty miles south, to baptize and receive into that church quite a number of converts. The school is unusually full this term, and the spirit of the pupils is marked by all of us. * * * * * A New Pastorate—“Pauses” in Prayer Meetings not yet Introduced. REV. CHARLES NOBLE, MONTGOMERY.