school, which is filling so difficult a position. “We are not unmindful also of the necessity for quite other laborers in the regeneration of this race. It is just as necessary in school as in church that this yet blind and emotional creature, ‘crying for the light with no language but a cry,’ shall have tendance suited to his condition and upon his own level.” * * * * * TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY. The annual examinations in this institution began on Thursday, May 26th, continuing Friday and also Monday forenoon. Many friends of students were present from various parts of the State. The forenoon of Sunday was taken up with the Sunday-school, with its very instructive lessons from the parable of the talents, and immediately following this a temperance Bible reading, with its intensely practical and stirring appeals. The latter was especially timely, inasmuch as a large number of temperance tracts, pamphlets and papers had been distributed to all the members, just before, for circulation as they return this summer to their own homes, or go forth to engage in teaching. Supplied in this way, the students from this school are the means of disseminating through the State a great deal of good temperance literature, and are enabled to organize a multitude of little temperance societies. It will not be amiss to note the fact, as illustrating the high value of just this sort of work, that besides these societies established by the students of this University, there is no kind of temperance organization among the colored people in the State. At the same time, the prevalence of drunkenness, and of the habit of drinking among all classes, is appalling. The following incident shows the crying need of a _reform movement_: A colored church not far from here had communion service, and when it was concluded, the pastor and deacons tarried, and following, as they believed, (?) the instruction of the Bible, where it says, “drink ye all of it,” consumed what was left of the generous supply of wine, and thus made themselves beastly drunk. Sunday was filled up with impressive services. In the afternoon the Lord’s Supper was commemorated, and five of the students united with the church, receiving the rite of baptism. In the evening, Dr. Strieby preached a sermon from the text. “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree, therefore, which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” Every word was listened to with closest attention. On Monday evening the Preparatory School Exhibition, under the management of the teachers of the Primary and Preparatory departments, was held in the chapel, presenting to a crowded audience a varied programme, made up of recitations, declamations, songs, &c. A prominent feature of this exhibition was a strong and well appreciated temperance dialogue.