At that convention, in the report by States of Sunday-school work, Maryland announced three Sunday-school missionaries, one of whom labored among the colored people, and two teachers’ associations in Baltimore, one for the colored. “We wish it understood that we are taking care of the colored children and gathering them into our schools.” Virginia reported: “We are earnestly engaged in pushing the work among the colored population.” The colored Sunday-school organized in 1855, by Stonewall Jackson, was still alive, superintended by Col. Preston, and having as teachers some of the ablest professors in the university at Lexington. Experience has shown that the best way to elevate the colored man is to give him well-ordered and well-taught Sunday-schools. Florida said: “The work in colored schools is gaining ground, one of them having over 300 scholars.” Texas reported many flourishing colored Sunday-schools, and was happy to have one of her intelligent Christian colored superintendents in that convention. Besides what is being done by the several denominations in their respective way, the American Sunday-school Union has in the South twelve of its missionaries. I met one of them the other day, Rev. J. J. Strong, whose field is the State of Alabama. In five years he had organized 157 schools, of which 37 were colored. Of the 142 schools aided by him, 58 were colored. He finds much aid and comfort at the home of Judge Thornton, in the northern part of the State. As he was about to start out on foot for the tour of the county, the judge said: “You must take my pony.” As the pony was known all over the county, he served as an introduction from the judge. This missionary is one of two who are sustained by one of those “unabridged” Christian men in the North. The other one works among the Swedes in Wisconsin. The salary and traveling expenses, and $100 to be given away by this worker in Alabama, uses up $1,100 a year in this excellent work of Christian philanthropy. Besides all this at the South in this line, the American Missionary Association reports for the last year 5,894 Sunday-school scholars connected with its sixty-four churches. Then there is a vast amount of such work done every year that does not come into these statistics. During the last summer vacation Atlanta University sent out 150 day-school teachers, and Fisk as many more, and all our institutions furnish more or less of them. Nearly all of these also run for the time their own Sunday-schools, thus reaching many thousand children with the truth of God’s word. It is known that up to this time our colored teachers have reached 100,000 of these day scholars, a multitude of whom have been taught in Sunday-schools.