They have no hopes and ambition such as white children have. They never think of the possibilities the future may hold for them. When we ask our boys and girls what they are going to do when they leave school, they look at us in blank amazement. This is a new idea to them; they had not looked beyond the present. Their standard of morality is low. Did you expect anything else? Who were the parents of these children? Slaves. Slaves who in return for hard labor received from the white man the cruelest wrongs and basest indignities; and yet people to-day speak as though this first generation born in freedom should be pure and virtuous. On every side you hear, “They lie, they cheat, they steal, are lazy, and it is simply impossible to do anything with them.” Many times this summer I have heard this sweeping assertion made, and by Christian people, who had simply traveled South, and who drew their conclusions from the servants they met in the hotels. Had they visited some of the A. M. A. schools their statement would not have been quite so extended as to the impossibilities of improvement. The Bible is the foundation of all our teaching. Religious and moral training first. A half hour each morning is given to devotions. Friday morning the school all meet together for prayer, in which our pupils take part. We have been greatly blessed in these meetings. Friday afternoon the girls all meet in one room, and while they are taught sewing, the Principal of the school gives the boys a talk on morality, in another room. We visit the pupils in their homes, and they, with their parents, feel at liberty to come to our cottage at any time. It is with much pleasure we note the improvement in their cabins and the taste the girls display in trying to make their homes resemble our cottage. After school every Friday afternoon, we have a missionary meeting for the mothers. Here, while they sew, simple religious stories are read to them, and before they go home we have a Bible reading and prayers. Three years ago this society sent ten dollars to the Morning Star, and for the past two years they have sent fifteen dollars to the A. M. A. for the Indians. They are trying to do a little for the Master’s Kingdom. Besides these meetings, we have Sunday-school and mission-school, and on Saturdays we go to settlements six or eight miles distant to hold mothers’ meetings. Many a poor soul in these meetings has heard for the first time the blessed news of personal salvation.