I have also verified what I had before heard, that the Negro race is not all composed of Uncle Toms--that, in fact, such transcendent characters are rare. The negro is neither a prince in disguise nor a hero in rags. He is exceedingly human, fallible, ignorant, childlike, fickle, improvident, thoughtless. We could easily lengthen this catalogue of failings, painful things which oftentimes tend to discourage the Christian worker. But hence is all the more need of the Gospel among them. Their animalism makes necessary the proper antidote of spiritual training. Their unsteadiness calls loudly for patience, perseverance, courage, on the part of teacher and missionary. Past centuries mightily influence the present. When I consider how far from perfect is our boasted Caucasian race, and how the home pastors and home missionaries toil unceasingly amid difficulties to teach sobriety, self-control and an embodied Gospel among the world’s dominant race, I can have more patience with the lower strata of humanity. Remembering the defalcations, the immoralities, the outbreaking evils which so often come to light among the white Christians, who have many centuries of Christian ancestors behind them, I can surely have more charity for these sable people who themselves dwelt in bondage so long, whose ancestors were slaves, and whose history shades off into the dim, remote, unknown past of savage Africa. Even the Jews, that remarkable people, known as they always have been for shrewdness, intelligence and business prosperity, after being enslaved in Egypt for some hundred years, were fearfully debased and demoralized, wandering in the wilderness many years, and even when they had conquered their promised land, were in turmoil and confusion. Can we expect better things of the sons of Ham? No nation can be “born in a day” whose minds and hearts are degraded by bondage for so long. But there is evident progress. The colored people of Macon deserve praise for their efforts after a truer life. There are 10,000 of them in this city, and among them is much poverty and want. But others have, “since emancipation,” laid up property and secured comfortable homes of their own. Their children in school compare favorably in most respects with white children. Some of them walk three or four miles each way to attend our Lewis High School. The extravagance and effervescence of religious gatherings is becoming more and more toned down as intelligence increases. They are more and more winning the respect of the whites, and I think there is more disposition on both sides to live peaceably than at any previous time since the war. Our church and school have had various trials, but now the prospect seems more favorable. One man has united with the church on profession. * * * * * ALABAMA. Revival in the Church and College. REV. G. W. ANDREWS, TALLADEGA.