The brick is deep red, laid in one-half cement and one-half mortar, a mixture which has hardened like stone. The walls are plastered with the same, with the addition of hair to give it proper tenacity and cohesion. The whole structure is solid, airy and imposing, admirably arranged for convenience in domestic work and for the comfort of the teachers and missionaries. The entire cost of the Home, and of the extension and repairs on the school-house, is $12,550, and including the church (which is seen on the left hand of the picture), the whole group of buildings has cost the donor $16,150. For the purposes in behalf of which they were erected they are nearly perfect. Utility and comfort have been combined in everything with the least possible waste of room or money. They are a monument to the head and heart and hand of the generous giver, such as any might covet, but such as few will have. While they stand they will be a beacon of light and hope to benighted thousands, and will bring upon the head of their author the blessing of many ready to perish. Who will imitate the example and share in the reward? * * * * * A WEEK AMONG THE WORKERS. * * * * * EXPERIENCES AND DUTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, FEB. 12. _By Rev. Evarts Kent._ Would you like to see our church? Look upon the cover of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY you hold in your hand; lower left hand corner. There it is, an attractive, beautiful brick structure with brown stone trimmings, slate roof, tower, bell, organ, everything, in fact, but a _mortgage_. The first experience of this day is sunshine! At this season of the year “the Gate City of the South,” unlike the New Jerusalem, has neither foundations nor pavements. Its streets are horrible pits, its sidewalks miry clay, and any day of the week that brings real northern sunshine is by no means the least of blessings. And this, the first pleasant Sabbath of the year, is bright and clear as the sunniest of New England May days, and we walk on dry land to the house of God through what only a day or two since was the Red (mud) Sea. After sunshine comes Sunday-school, from 9:30 to 11 A.M. The pastor is superintendent. After the opening exercises, the school separates by classes, each going to its own room for forty minutes’ study of the lesson.