MONTGOMERY, ALA.--This is a week of prayer and we are observing it. While the weather has thus far been very unfavorable, afternoon meetings have been excellent; though not large as to number, the spirit of them has been very encouraging. We are laboring and praying for a “quickening.” I think quite a number are seriously thoughtful. We expected to receive two last Sabbath on profession, but the terrible cold and snows of the week prevented us from having our church preparatory service on Wednesday evening. There has been a very decided advance in intelligent appreciation of the Gospel and in spirituality, within the past year, although no real increase in numbers. MEMPHIS, TENN.--The religious interest in the school has brought great blessing and refreshing. On Thursday and Friday ten students were led to give clear, whole-hearted testimony to an entire change of heart and life. The school is moved through and through. Scarcely a pupil of any age but is anxiously inquiring, as are many of their friends outside. Some wonderful scenes and experiences are given us and the entire work goes on most quietly, and, we trust, thoroughly. We pray for the _whole school_. * * * * * NEW APPOINTMENTS. 1880-1881. The following list presents the names and post-office addresses of those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions and Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among the Freedmen in the South, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, the Indians, and the Negroes in Western Africa. The Theological Department of Howard University is supported jointly by the Presbytery of Washington and the American Missionary Association. The Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their own Boards of Trustees; but being either founded or fostered in the past by this Association, and representing the general work in which it is engaged, their teachers are included in this list. THE SOUTHERN FIELD. REV. J. E. ROY, D. D., Field Superintendent. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. WASHINGTON. _Theological Department, Howard University._ Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., Washington, D. C. Rev. J. G. Craighead, D. D., Washington, D. C. Rev. Alexander Pitzer, D. D., Washington, D. C. Rev. John G. Butler, D. D., Washington, D. C. LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH. _Pastor._ Rev. S. P. Smith, Chicago, Ill. _Special Missionary._ Mrs. C. B. Babcock, Newburyport, Mass. * * * * * VIRGINIA.