But we must warn our patrons not to divert their contributions from our ordinary work to this special object, for if this is done, we might as well furnish this student help directly from our treasury. Then where would be the money to sustain the teachers?—and _they must be sustained_, or the schools closed. The only solution of the problem is for the friends of the Freedmen to enlarge their contributions to meet both wants. We most importunately urge our patrons not to starve the teacher in order to aid the scholar, but help both. What Shall We Do? Will a goodly number of the readers of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY tell us? The case can be best set forth by giving a single illustration. On the Saturday evening preceding the Monday on which the new school year of Fisk University was to begin, a young man was brought to my room by one of our former students, who introduced him as being from Montgomery, Alabama. I found on inquiry, and from a letter which he brought from a prominent colored man of that city, that he had determined to get an education, and having but little money, had made up his mind to walk from Montgomery to Nashville, a distance of three hundred miles, with the hope of finding some way by which he might be admitted as a student in Fisk University. Fortunately, a prominent citizen of Montgomery was able to secure him a pass on the railroad, one hundred miles, to Birmingham, and a student of Fisk University who happened to meet him at Columbia, Tenn., used the little spare money he had in his pocket to help him on his way twenty miles toward Nashville. What do the friends of education among the colored people of the South wish us to do with such cases? The University has no means of its own with which to help such young people, and this instance is but an illustration of very many similar cases which we are compelled to decide every year.