The change in twenty years is indicated in the following extract from the _Kentucky Register_ of February 21, 1879, published in that same town of Richmond, Ky. It can be seen, too, in the prosperity of Berea College, with its 273 pupils, one-half of them white: “REV. JOHN G. FEE AT THE COURT-HOUSE.--Probably no man in Madison County in past years has been talked about as much as Rev. John G. Fee, the founder of the town and college of Berea. He has been a resident of the county for more than twenty-five years, has been a preacher of the gospel, and, yet strange to say, never until last Sunday preached a sermon in this place. On the day named, he occupied by invitation the pulpit of Dr. T. H. Clelland at the Court-House. Owing to the fact that no general notice of Mr. Fee’s intention to speak had been given, his audience was very small; otherwise the Court-House would have been filled to its utmost capacity. Mr. Fee is a forcible and pleasant speaker, agreeable in his manner, and impresses his bearers that he is in earnest, honest in his convictions, and conscientiously seeks the advancement and well-being of his fellow-men. “As he stood before his audience, a messenger for Christ, and preached the words of the Master, one could but recall the trying years of the past, when the speaker fearlessly combated a race prejudice and battled for the freedom of a people who seemed hopelessly enslaved; when he stood alone in his advocacy of negro liberty, and in his mild and gentle way, sought to convince his neighbors that human slavery was wrong and condemned by God; when his enemies persecuted him, and the people among whom he lived sought to pull him down, and even threatened to take his life--one could but recall these stormy days of hate and sectional prejudice, and at the same time remember that when the war came and Mr. Fee’s party was in the ascendant, he had no man punished; he sought to avenge no personal grievance, but went on with his life-work in his quiet, unobtrusive way, forgetting his enemies or only remembering them to forgive them.” * * * * *