The meetings were conducted by Rev. J. C. Hartzell, D.D., and the topics discussed embraced nearly every phase of educational work, relating more especially, however, to the negroes, the poor whites and the Indians. In our limited space, we can give simply two or three leading features of the discussion. The subject of National Aid to Education deservedly received large attention and found its way into addresses other than those on that particular topic. Secretary Strieby presided during the session when it was considered, and the time was occupied by Prof. Painter, Hon. J. P. Wickersham, Senator H. W. Blair and others. Mr. Wickersham gave a comprehensive résumé of the aid provided by foreign nations for schools, pointing out its benefits and also its evils. He argued that, although it generally was the wisest and the only successful way for the people to provide education for themselves, yet under conditions like those in a portion of our country, help should be given by the government. True patriotism, he said, requires us to keep an army of schoolmasters in the South now as much as it did to maintain an army of soldiers to put down the rebellion. The urgency of national aid to education at once was emphasized by Judge Tourgee in the expression that ten million dollars for this purpose to-day would be worth more than ten thousand millions twenty years hence. Senator Blair, who recognizes fully the value of aggressive and thorough methods of reform, declared, and we think truly, that if every leading newspaper would give one strong editorial urging the importance of national aid, if every popular lecturer would devote one hour to public discussion of the subject, and if every minister would preach one sermon in its advocacy, the next Congress would pass a bill for an appropriation for the purpose among its earliest acts, and the people of the nation would applaud with hearty commendations.