One of our colored ministers, trained in an American Missionary Association school, in stating some incidents of his life to a friend, said that he was led, when about sixteen years old, to give up gambling and licentiousness, simply out of regard for his teacher, fearing that she would learn of his evil ways and despise him. That teacher little thought then, and has never learned even, of the blessed influence upon that young man, of her pure and consecrated life, which, through the providence of God, led to the transformation of a gambler and profligate, into an efficient and esteemed Christian minister, through whom she is now preaching to hundreds and even thousands. * * * * * The Superintendent, scouring through Georgia, came across Rev. Mr. Thomas, a choice man, who has charge of two colored Presbyterian churches at Union Point and Woodstock, under commission of the Northern General Assembly, and who got all his schooling—three years—at our Lewis High School in Macon, Ga. So the fruit of our tree of knowledge, is falling over into other church lots, and we are glad of it. Such fruitage is a great encouragement to the teachers of our minor schools. * * * * * _A Bible Example of Reconstruction._—It was after the return from Babylon. Civil and the moral reformation went hand in hand. The first Governor, Zerubabel, who was a grandson of a former king, had the high priest, Joshua, to lead in the worship, and the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah, to preach and to teach. The next Governor, Ezra, instituted for the instruction of the people an extensive system of Bible-readings. “So they read in the Book, in the law of God, distinctly and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.” The next Governor, Nehemiah, was a reformer. He put down the practices of taking heathen wives, of violating the Sabbath, and of exacting illegal interest. No improvement has as yet been made upon that style of civil reconstruction. Religion and education, the church and the school, must go along with the re-ordering of the State. So we find our work at the South in the line of a Divine pattern. The Bible gives us its ideal of dealing with freedmen by taking into its sacred canon the five books of Moses for the emancipated Israelites, the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai and Zechariah, for the restored captives. * * * * * ZEAL FOR STUDY.