This new colored school, which we can see so plainly from our home, is a constant inspiration for us to work on with new courage, for its eight faithful teachers, with one exception, have been first trained at Storrs School and afterward at Atlanta University. This good work loses none of its fascination for us; we only mourn that time and strength are not given us to accomplish more. Mr. Kent, our new pastor, comes with perfect health, and is brim-full of enthusiasm and earnest desire to do the people good. His earnestness, supplemented by the experience and good judgment of Miss Stevenson, the city missionary, must tell upon the church and people generally. * * * * * MISSISSIPPI. DEDICATION OF STRIEBY HALL. _By Mrs. M. E. H. Pope, Tougaloo._ THANKSGIVING DAY, 1881. One year ago to-day we gathered in the old chapel of Washington Hall to recount the mercies of the year which God had crowned with goodness. How little did we anticipate the changes which one year more would bring to us. We were trying to make the best of the (dis) comforts and (in) conveniences of the old building; but it could not hold half of the young men, and it seemed to us that the old rooms over the shop and wood-house, and the temporary barracks, had served their day and generation, and we needed—yes, there was no doubt of it—we needed a new building. We asked the Lord for one, and the beginning of the answer to our prayer was the sweeping away by the flames, in one short hour, of our main school building, which included chapel and boys’ dormitories. But, though cast down, we were not destroyed utterly, for we had a large new barn, out of which we turned the cattle; dubbed it “Ayrshire Hall,” and moved in. We were sure the Lord Jesus would not forget that His birthplace was a manger, and would glorify this refuge with His presence; and so He did. Our numbers were larger than ever, and it was a wonder to us sometimes where they were all stowed away; but we were always able to find a place for “one more,” and so the year went on and ended. The boarding hall had been enlarged during the last half of the year by the addition of a wing and another story, so it could accommodate more than twice as many girls as before. And now followed a busy summer, during which the boarding hall was finished off and a substantial three story brick building erected. A good many buildings have been put up at various places by legacies and named for the dead, but we thought it right to give honor to the living as well, and by request of the Faculty, the Executive Committee voted to name this building after the Association’s representative man, Dr. M. E. Strieby. And so a tablet over the main entrance bears the words “Strieby Hall.” The work upon this building has been entirely done by colored men, except a few days work by the traditional “plumber.”