the means. For five years she has been securing an education, paying her way by teaching every summer. Another student was pointed out to us, whose persistence under difficulties is still more remarkable. For the work of two successive summers, he has been unable to collect a dollar of the money due him; and for last summer’s work, when he was able to get a school that would pay only half the average sum, he has as yet received only a small portion of what he has earned. And yet he is not discouraged, but works on cheerfully. At Fisk University, Mrs. A. K. Spence is making efforts to secure gifts from Sabbath-schools in the North, to supplement the meagre sums earned by the students. One hundred and fifty dollars annually will carry a student through. (We heard a gentleman say that it cost his son a thousand dollars a year at a Northern college.) If any Sabbath-school desires to assume the additional fifty dollars for the support of one of these pupils, Mrs. Spence will be glad to receive a letter on the subject. The great trouble is to induce the students to receive aid. They are eager to do for themselves. Recently, some kind words were addressed them by a visitor, on the subject of self-reliance. “Oh,” said one of the teachers, “it is a pity he said that; it was natural he should, but he does not know them. It made them wince, and we shall have harder work than ever to persuade them to receive the help they need.” We were greatly pleased at the piety of the students in both institutions. Most of them, particularly among the boarders, are earnest and consistent Christians. We were much moved at some of their prayers, they were so tender, earnest and child-like. The prayer of one of their number is still treasured up in the memory of the instructors. Jubilee Hall had just been completed. It seemed a paradise to the colored people. A farewell meeting was held in the old dingy barracks, in the centre of Nashville, where the school had hitherto met. It was then that one of the students prayed—“O Lord, Thou knowest how eager we are to enter this beautiful new building; but if Thou wilt not go with us, we do not wish to go. Unless Thou wilt go, also, let us stay here.” The Lord did go with them, and they have enjoyed frequent seasons of revival ever since.