In North Carolina, I went first to Wilmington, where is the nourishing Williston Normal School, with its consort church, and all under the management of Rev. D. D. Dodge and his wife, and Misses Warner, Fitts, Goodwin and Phelps. Besides the several young teachers under training here, there is also a class of preachers in the old time churches who are getting brushed up. Two nights had to be given to talks before the school and congregation. Thence up to Dudley, where Rev. David Peebles and his wife, lately Miss Anna M. Day, of the Washington School at Raleigh, have charge of the church and school in the large and comely structure which serves a double purpose. Besides a half dozen candidates for the teaching profession, one young man is pursuing Latin with reference to a full classical course. This church numbers seventy-five members, and makes a specialty of temperance and music. It has to meet in the community a theological _coloring_ taken from the Hard-shell Baptists and the Quakers. In the Ku-Klux times a good many Freedmen came in here for safety. At Beaufort I found the church and school making headway under Mr. Michael Jerkins, a graduate of the Theological Department of Howard University. At Morehead City, a town once of great expectations, now blighted, our school and the city lie dead side by side. At Woodbridge our school is under the care of Mr. W. H. Ellis, a graduate of Williams, who was recently licensed to preach by Mr. Peebles’ church, of Dudley. Last year, in this school, under the excellent Miss Waugh, a revival was enjoyed which enlisted more than a score of the scholars as disciples of the Great Master. Mr. Ellis ministers the word on the Lord’s day, and a church fellowship must soon be gathered here. At this place, at North River near Beaufort, and at Dudley, some years ago, the A. M. A., with funds specially provided, purchased several hundred acres of land to be sold to the Freedmen. Not all of this has yet been taken up. The highest ideal of such an investment has not been realized at these points. Nevertheless, I find that the Freedmen almost everywhere are making advance in securing homes and farms. At Goldsboro’, a fine railway centre, we found an urgent call for a church and school movement, which must soon be set forward. Chapel Hill, the location of the State University, offers a similar opening.