_Dedicated to the American Missionary Association._ O, the hearts, all crushed and bleeding, Who can pass them by unheeding? Who resist their piteous pleading? When mine eyes the King shall see, Shall the waiting welcome be, “Ye have done it unto Me”? Lo, our Lord has condescended To uplift the unbefriended, And the poor man’s cause defended. When mine eyes the King shall see, Shall the waiting welcome be, “Ye have done it unto Me”? Came He to the pure and holy, Or to save the sinners solely? Lo, He loved the lost and lowly. When mine eyes the King shall see May the waiting welcome be, “Ye have done it unto Me”! When the ruined, rescued races, Sit with us in heavenly places, Christ-like love shall crown the graces. Then mine eyes the King shall see, And the waiting welcome be, “Ye have done it unto Me.” JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 26, ’77. * * * * * REPLACING THE BURNED BUILDINGS. The new building at Macon, Ga., which contains both chapel and schoolrooms is nearly completed. It is built substantially and plainly of brick, fully supplies the place of the two buildings burned, and in cost will come quite within the insurance money received. It will probably be ready for dedication about the first of February. A lot, on which is a building for a teacher’s home, has been purchased at Mobile, Ala., and the rebuilding of the Emerson Institute will be begun at once. It will also be of brick, commodious and convenient in its proportions and arrangement. At New Orleans we have met with delays from time to time, arising from the necessity of a change of location, and the customary vexations of real-estate transfers. We sympathize with the trials of our Straight University corps of teachers in the disadvantages under which they are working. We hope soon to have a desirable lot fully secured, and shall then press the building with all the speed which is compatible with prudence and safety. One of the teachers, in a personal letter, writes: “As far as numbers make a school a success, Straight is a success. There must be now two hundred pupils, of which there are ninety-three enrolled in my department, with an average of eighty-seven.