“The educational work in the South of the American Missionary Association is of the highest character, and deserves all possible recognition and assistance. The leading Southern people everywhere speak of it gratefully and enthusiastically. At the Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., at Talladega College, in Alabama, Tougaloo University, Mississippi, Tillotson Normal School, Austin, Texas, and in several other colleges and normal schools which I have visited, though the money endowment of the schools is scanty compared with the amounts which are needed, the endowments in personal qualities and character, as represented by the teachers, are of a remarkably high order. This is indispensable indeed, for the peculiar nature of the work of educating the colored people of the South requires the best teachers that can be obtained. In many of these institutions the boys learn something of various trades or mechanical occupations, and of farming; and the girls are taught sewing, cooking and the care of a house. I have visited a great number of the negro common and high schools, which are taught by graduates and students of the colleges and normal schools which I have named, and I think it very wonderful that so many of these negro teachers are successful. They generally have to struggle against many disadvantages, but nearly all whom I have seen have the confidence and respect of the leading white citizens where they are at work. I have found a few fools among them, of course, but a great majority appear to be sensible, earnest young men and women.” * * * * * TALLADEGA COLLEGE. PRESIDENT HENRY S. DE FOREST. This issue of the MISSIONARY contains a view of Stone Hall, built of Alabama bricks at Talladega. Its completion, it is believed, marks an era in the history of the College. With better equipments than ever before, with a field as large as it can wish, the College, backed by the history of half of one generation, looks forward with hope to the growing and unfolding future. From what has been we may attempt to previse something of what may be.