In Nashville, Tenn., we have two great institutions of learning, Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities; each gazing upon the other, yet widely differing as to their influence and aim, and the age which they represent. Vanderbilt represents the age that was and is; Fisk the age that is to be—the age when every worthy man shall be to every worthy fellowman a brother. Fisk University is your child, and one of which you can justly be proud, and may you fully nourish and protect it. It is a great light in a dark land—an oasis of living thought in a vast desert of parched and stupid ideas. May its light never diminish nor its fountains cease to flow. Through the work of the A. M. A. you have firmly imbedded yourselves in the deepest affections and highest gratitude of the colored people of the South. No words can express our gratitude for the firm stand which you have taken in favor of the New Testament idea of human equality. You have made for yourselves a glorious name, and your work will endure so long as the thought of God sways the minds of men. * * * * * WELL SAID. FROM ADDRESS OF REV. A. G. HAYGOOD, D.D. But back of the courts there must be educational work. There must be among the people a better sense of essential righteousness. There must be a justice that will not and cannot sentence a poor wretch, who steals a coat or a piece of bacon for a longer term than the rich man who breaks a bank and robs a thousand people; that will not and cannot send a poor man without friends or money to prison for a longer term than a rich man with both money and friends who has committed the same offense; that will not and cannot send a Negro or a Chinaman to prison for a longer term than it will send a white man for the same offense. Among the people there needs to be developed a better conscience as to the sanctity of an oath, and the sacred majesty and divine authority of law that knows no conditions of society and no distinctions of race. With such a conscience paramount, even among the leaders of opinion, prison reform will be easy. * * * * * THE SOUTH. * * * * * NOTES IN THE SADDLE. BY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C. J. RYDER. There is no department of work in the great field which is being developed by the A. M. A. more thrillingly interesting than that of the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee. A recent trip, one of several already made through that region, has greatly increased my appreciation of this work, and confidence in the grand success which is even now opening before us. I have just been over the ground covered by our missionary work and have been impressed with the vast opportunities, as well as the imperative needs which exist on every hand in this mountain region. Let us go over that field together. New and strange phases of life meet us at every turn.