Again, they will remain, too, doubtless, at the South. We thought that they might scatter over the North. The failure of the migration to the North last year does not favor that theory. What is to bring them up to a Christian civilization? We all say at once a Christian education. There are 700,000 in their common schools. I will simply give the outlines as to the higher schools. Of higher schools there are 45, scattered in different parts of the South; 42 normal schools, four of them state institutions, the rest under the auspices of religious organizations like this. There are 21 colleges, 21 schools of theology, four of medicine and three of law. That sounds well; but it would be wise to ask what these colleges are, scattered over the South. I asked an officer of one of these institutions this afternoon, “Is Talladega a college? It was referred to as such, but was not reported by the Commissioner of Education in 1879 as a college.” “O yes, it is a chartered institution, and soon they expect to have a college curriculum.” Many of these 21 colleges at the South are much in the same condition. They are high and normal schools, with possibly a theological school, which, however, is not as high as a college class. Now the question is, what are we to do with them?—what are we expecting to accomplish by them? Several things are manifest. First, that this higher education at the South is to be dependent upon benevolence for its continuance and success. Nor is this any exception to the case of higher education at the North. We little realize that all our colleges have been founded by benevolent men, and have been continued in their endowments by benevolent men. We little realize that our young men who attend our colleges do not pay for their education, in many cases not one-half of the expense of it. Secondly, it is manifest that this work must be very largely a denominational work. Now this morning we had a presentation of what it would be well for us to have at the South—denominational unity. That cannot be. Men will not work upon any principle of that kind. If ever there was a time when we might say we had a clean slate, we had that time when we began our work. All united in support of this Association; but very soon we found our Baptist friends, our Methodist friends, our Presbyterian friends and our Episcopal friends withdrawing. Nor could we complain. The Baptists had thousands of colored people in their churches there and the Methodists had hundreds. To-day the Baptists report 800,000 in their colored churches, and the Methodists report 412,000. These colored churches said to them, “You must educate ministers for us;” and hence they have established their schools and higher schools. The Presbyterians had churches among the whites, and those churches, waking up, said, “You must help us in our work for the colored people;” and so they went into the work.