May not such yet say we will go to that training school for ourselves, and get those improvements at first hand? We have one notable illustration of what may be done, and that is at Berea, Ky. This college, planted before the war by the Association, upon being opened after the war, allowed colored scholars to come. After some effervescence the institution settled into its color-blind method, until it has become a great power in the State with the colors in about equal proportion among the students and at the grand commencement convocations. Some of the young folks coming down from the mountains to Berea say they would rather go there than to endure the manners of the aristocratic colleges. The citizens of Cabin Creek, Ky., our old ante-bellum battle ground, are just now erecting an Academy with the money subscribed upon the condition of no caste. The influence of Berea College is felt up in all the mountain country. White youth come down there to get stores of knowledge to carry back. The Professors have gone through that region lecturing on education, holding teachers’ institutes and preaching. At Clover Bottom, 20 miles out, they have gotten up such a mixed school, which is a success, and is now under the patronage of this Association. The Committee have decided to offer those mountain people the aid of our system, if they will only allow the very few colored scholars to enter the schools. Up there the colored children in a whole county are scarcely numerous enough to call for more than one school, and so the law forbidding such mixed public schools is a virtual closing of the doors of knowledge to this class. The Committee have made an appropriation for this work and have already had their Field Superintendent upon a tour of exploration—his report being favorable to kind, patient, persevering endeavor to get the school-master abroad through a region wherein whole counties the few school-houses are cabins with scarcely a glass window in them. In the growth of the educational department and in the purpose of the Committee to do the very best work in our institutions, it has been found needful to secure the service of an expert in school processes who should help to the most approved methods of organization, discipline, instruction and unification. Accordingly Mr. Albert Salisbury, who had been a Professor in the State Normal, at Whitewater, Wis., and a conductor of teachers’ institutes, has been appointed Superintendent of Education, and has already entered upon service, giving promise of great effectiveness in his line. Doctor Roy will continue in his position as Field Superintendent. _Church Work._