and pen for the extension of the practical system of education so long pursued by the American Missionary Association, and in which he sees the best possibilities of the dark race. Dr. Haygood speaks plainly, as well as eloquently. He calls a spade a spade. He does not spare any who set themselves in his way or in the way of the work he has so much at heart. He knows that education makes every man better, stronger and happier than he could be without it and he contends for its dissemination by compulsion if other means fail of making it general, of bringing it into every man’s house as essential to the maintenance of the peace that passes all understanding. It is in the nature of things that such a man should encounter opposition; that he should even be reviled, abused and misrepresented, but he has only to take counsel of those who have occupied the field he is now in during the past twenty years to find a sweet solace and a consolation for it all. He can read in their lives the opening chapters of his own career in the field of Negro education, but he can also read of a generous if tardy recognition of their labors by the best educated men and women of the South, who willingly acknowledge their indebtedness to them for the patient, earnest, laborious work by which in so short a time nearly forty per cent. of the Negro population has been taught to read and write, and so many thousands have been trained and fitted after the most approved technical methods to teach in Negro public schools and thus perpetuate the blessings they rejoice in the possession of.” * * * * * AN APOSTOLIC SALUTATION.—At Birmingham, Ala., a city of only a decade, in its iron and coal interest worthy of its English namesake, Field Superintendent Roy found Congregational representatives of half a dozen of our other schools and churches, who had been drawn to that busy metropolis, as so many acquaintances of the Apostle Paul in Asia Minor had been drawn to Rome to be addressed by name in the salutatory chapter of his Epistle to the Romans before he had himself ever been to that city. Canon Farrar argues that that chapter must belong to some other Epistle, on account of the difficulty of the Apostle’s knowing so many people at Rome. If the Canon of Westminster had only been a Superintendent of Missions he would have had no such trouble. Dr. Roy could have given the apostolic salutation to the Saints of this new church. * * * * * NOTICES ON THE OPENING OF SCHOOLS. SELECTED FROM CORRESPONDENCE.