It is beautiful to see how readily these plain people take up the New Testament idea of church government, and how this natural process tends to their education and discipline of character. Herein we find confirmation that the Apostle made no mistake in setting up such churches among the Christians of his day who had not been trained in New England. These churches in the South are known everywhere as insisting upon a high standard of ethics. Their example, their methods, their influence, are greatly stimulating to the churches round about them, so that by quality they make up in part for want of quantity. These churches are organized into seven conferences. Many persons have smiled upon reading the reports of these convocations, and have wondered how such an ecclesiastical body would seem, whether its members were not simply playing at an ecclesiastical parliament. Our suggestion is, come and see. If you were to come, you would find a fulfillment of the Saviour’s words, “All ye are brethren,” the white and the colored being members of the same body. You would find a rigidity of parliamentary usage. You would find literary exercises, discussions, reports, Sunday-school assemblies, devotional services going on after the manner of those with which you are familiar. Some of our brethren testify that these meetings seemed to afford as much intellectual and spiritual stimulus as those which they were accustomed to attend before going South. An additional feature of these gatherings is the presence and participation of the lady missionaries and teachers, whose reports are greatly interesting. In Alabama the conference has associated with it a Ladies’ Missionary Society with auxiliaries in different parts of the State. The exercises of these women’s meetings are not only to cultivate the missionary spirit, but to help the wives, mothers and daughters of this people to be missionaries of sweetness and light, of order and comfort, in their own homes. These ecclesiastical assemblies become not only a representative of our work in its spirit and extent, but they become occasions for drawing out the fellowship of the pastors and churches, white and colored, where they meet. At first these bodies were ignored. Now it is a common thing for the local pastors to drop in upon them, to participate in the exercises and to offer their pulpits for supply. This has been done at Wilmington, Macon, Mobile, Marion and Selma.