The theological departments at Howard, Talladega and Straight have been doing their good work in training upon the ground just the sort of men who are needed for the peculiar work to be done. Fisk University has three of its graduates in the study of theology at Oberlin, and one in a divinity school at Yale. The law department of the Straight, with a faculty made up of five of the best lawyers in New Orleans, has had 20 students, who are of both races, and who, upon their diplomas, by the statute, are admitted to the bar of all the courts of the State. We are pushing more and more the lines of industrial training. The two farms at Talladega and Tougaloo have this year been put into better shape than ever before. Tougaloo raises fine fruits for the Chicago market and fine stock for the surrounding country. Both raise much of the beef and pork and vegetables for their own use. Atlanta University is pushing fine gardening, teaching the girls of the senior class cookery, and is planning to go into a school of carpentry. The Fisk, this year, under a trained hospital nurse, introduces hygienics and cookery. The Le Moyne, at Memphis, teaches cooking, nursing and sewing. All of our boarding-schools require a certain amount of work. The Storrs school, in Atlanta, has opened this fall a genuine kindergarten under an expert teacher. The Avery Institute, at Charleston, is going into the same, with training also in the use of tools. But to all intellectual and secular training there needs to be added moral and religious cultivation. This is kept as our steady aim. No teacher is sent out who is not in fellowship with some church, and who does not profess to be actuated in going by a missionary spirit. The large number of conversions, the frequent revivals in these institutions, and the developed fruit of good living, attest the fidelity of these missionary teachers. The judgment day alone can reveal the influence of these consecrated workers, the most of whom are women, upon the life and character of the multitude of youth who have been under their care. The pupils are watched over in the class-room, in the place of religious assembly, and out of school hours. They are invited to private conferences for the correction of habits and views, and there the concerns of the soul are considered; scholars are prayerfully followed up even into vacation by correspondence, until not a few in these ways are led to Christ and into His church. The most of our young men, who are examined for entering the ministry, in giving their religious history, trace it back to the time when they were led to the Saviour by some of their teachers, whose richest reward it must be to see these young men coming into the ministry with ample equipment largely through their own influence. Women’s work for women is the modern discovery of missions. Of those who go abroad, their work is largely that of teaching. Our lady workers,