_Statement of Stone Fund._ Balance in hand Sept. 30, 1881 72,868.03 Income in part 655.47 ————————— 73,523.50 Expended as follows: Fisk University, Livingstone Missionary Hall, balance 37,523.50 Atlanta University, Stone Hall, in part 25,081.30 ————————— $62,604.80 Balance in hand 10,918.70 ————————— 73,523.50 RECAPITULATION. American Missionary Association, Current Fund $297,584.45 Endowments for Talladega College 21,000.00 Endowment for Fisk University 500.00 Arthington Fund, appropriated and used during the year 9,280.53 Stone Fund, appropriated and used during the year 62,604.80 —————————— $390,969.78 The receipts of Berea College, Hampton N. and A. Institute, and State appropriation of Georgia to Atlanta University, are added below, as presenting at one view the contributions of the same constituency for the general work in which the Association is engaged: American Missionary Association $390,969.78 Berea College 23,179.00 Hampton N. and A. Institute (beside amount through A. M. A.) 87,865.16 Atlanta University 8,000.00 —————————— $510,113.94 =========== * * * * * GENERAL SURVEY. FREEDMEN. These our fellow-citizens are proving the wisdom of the Government in putting upon them the responsibilities of the elective franchise as at once their defense and their process of education. Taking into account their own aspiration and the force put beneath them by the scheme of Christian schools, we should expect, as we find, a tremendous uplift among them. In this we have assurance as to the future, provided the appliances be worked with increasing vigor. There is in this matter no halting place for the nation. We must lift them up, or they will drag us down. As one of these helping forces, we come to our own _Educational Work._