“4. All of the large religious denominations are conducting educational movements among the Freedmen on a large scale. There are scattered through the Southern States, under the patronage of different denominations, thirty-nine chartered and endowed institutions for the higher education of colored people as teachers, ministers, physicians, farmers and mechanics. Besides these, there are sixty-nine schools of a lower grade. It is calculated that in the last sixteen years twenty million dollars has been contributed and invested in the work of educating the Freedmen. “5. Leading and influential men at the South are in many cases openly patrons of these educational efforts. Several of these institutions have been generously assisted by the States in which they are founded. The last reports of all these institutions represent them as in a successful and flourishing condition. “6. The colored race is advancing in material wealth and prosperity.” * * * * * CONGREGATIONALISM IN THE SOUTH. 4. Its Relation to the African Race. DIST. SEC. C. L. WOODWORTH, BOSTON. Beyond any sentiment of honor, or of ambition to do our share of the immense work thrown in an hour upon the churches of this land, is the higher aim to introduce our faith and our polity to the African race. Not only is it our reproach that we have been, almost exclusively, confined to a small part of the English-speaking people, but we shall deserve our littleness if we consent to be limited to this nation, or even to this continent. The world needs the principles we have in trust, and will not reach its best until it attains them. And, now, before us is an open field, rich in resources of life and wealth, all untilled. One-sixth of the human family waits to be moulded by Christian influence. A continent bares its bosom and asks Christianity for her strongest and best. Why should the Church, which took possession of _one_ continent and gave it the most benign institutions earth ever saw, hesitate to lay hold of _another_, and plant it with the good seed of the kingdom?