Everything, the interest of our students, the appreciation of the colored people, and the growing sympathy of the best class of the white people, as indicated in the lecture course given by prominent gentlemen to the school during the year, and by their aid to the school in other ways, points to a successful and growing work for the future. * * * * * Flower Mission and Care for the Sick. MISS HATTIE A. MILTON, MEMPHIS. [The training school for nursing, at Le Moyne Institute, is doing good work, not simply in giving instruction that will fit the pupils to become intelligent and efficient nurses when they have gone to their homes, but in visiting and caring for the sick now. Under instruction from their teachers, they have done much for the sick among the poor of the city. Miss Milton tells below of the Flower Mission she started in the City Hospital.—ED. MISSIONARY.] Yesterday I asked the girls in the sewing class to bring me flowers for the sick at the City Hospital. They were very glad of the opportunity and brought sixty bouquets of our lovely roses and some honey-suckles, I took them to the Hospital, where I met, by previous appointment, the lady-missionary among the whites, and assisted her in conducting the services in the white ward. Then we went to the colored ward, which she had not been in the habit of visiting, gave each patient a bouquet, which was very gratefully received, after which we had a short service consisting of Bible-reading, prayer and singing. We then passed through all the white wards, giving each inmate a bouquet. We came away leaving many happy hearts and smiling faces. One old colored man, who was dying when I gave him the flowers, and passed away shortly after I left, said to the nurse with his last breath, “Take these three spring-chickens” (sent to him by a friend from the country) “and give them to the teacher who gave me the flowers.” The chickens came, and I shall have an opportunity of making some of the sick ones happy with them. The girls are very much interested in working for the comfort of the poor and sick, and have asked permission to go with me on my visits. They have been making some garments for orphans, in the sewing class, and have enjoyed the work. They ask me to tell them about the poor and sick while they are sewing. I trust the Holy Spirit has touched their hearts. * * * * * AFRICA. * * * * * MENDI MISSION. MR. NATHANIEL NURSE, GOOD HOPE STATION. We have about a mile of land connected with this station. On this the natives have built a number of “fackies” in which they live. I noticed one afternoon, as I entered one of them, a man before the front entrance; and upon going to see what he was doing, my attention was attracted to a large piece of country cloth spread outside, and in front, of the door.