Now, it would not be just to say that the sentiments quoted above are those of the New South. They are not. It would be equally erroneous to deny that these views would be accepted by the great body of people living in the South. The New South to many means simply a new South for white people. Those who have had the misfortune to be the children of slavery are to most as yet not in the newness. There is a New South that is becoming awake to the possibilities, the opportunities, and the duties, especially of the dominant race, but he shuts his eyes to serious facts, and to many sad ones, who is led to think that the movements which we herald with gladness are the thought and feeling of any large significance, or that they can do the work to which the American Missionary Association is consecrated. It will, we fear, be a long time yet before the South will become so new that it will spell negro with one _g_. And it will be as long perhaps before the poor and despised shall be so elevated and Christianized that people shall be ashamed to use two _g’s_ where one is superfluous. The appreciation which our work gains from noble and thoughtful people in the South is the bright side. We love to look upon this. But the fact that there are seven millions of colored people in the South, and probably not more than five hundred well educated colored preachers for them, is a fact not so bright. Our schools and theological seminaries are bright spots in the darkness. While we are grateful to note the fact that the thoughts of men are widening, we know that there is need of faith and patience, because there remains much land to be possessed. One need not go far from what is hopeful to find enough to excite concern for the future, and to urge him to relax no zeal to hasten the day when Christ shall make all things new. When Southern newspapers can still print the opinion that education for the Negro is a recruiting agency for the penitentiary, and that colored schools are nuisances, we may be sure that the anxiety of thoughtful people, who are urging us to do a work which they cannot do and know not how to do, is very real. As to the truth of such opinions, which are very common in the South, we have only to quote a sentiment of a modern philosopher, viz., “It is better not to know so many things, than to know so many things that ain’t so.” * * * * * THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED--NO. 1. It seems to be a condition of every successful benevolent undertaking that there should be a constant recurrence to fundamental principles. The danger, in all mission enterprises, is that they will become perfunctory,--about so much to the society--rather than a contribution measured by the forces and the interests involved in its work.