415 children, only 10 of whom had ever been in a Sunday-school before.

Revivals of religious interest have been reported from our churches in
Washington, Wilmington, Charleston, Talladega, Mobile, Athens, Marion,
Selma, Birmingham and New Orleans. Those of the churches which are
side by side with our educational institutions are most hopeful; but
wherever we have planted churches, they stand forth to represent the
ethics of Christianity, the purity and truth of character which must
be contained in a worthy discipleship. A large proportion of our
pastors are children of the A.M.A. Parsonages have been built for our
churches in Mobile, Ala., and in Dallas, Texas.

MOUNTAIN WORK.

This year has laid great emphasis on the fact that we have entered, in
the Southern mountains, a missionary field of vast importance,
pressing needs and unbounded hopefulness. We have in this region,
where a few years ago there was nothing, two normal schools, two
academies, five common schools, and twenty churches.

In a territory five hundred miles long, and more than two hundred
miles broad--twice the size of all New England--are at least between
three and four hundred counties with a population greater than that of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut combined,
without schools worthy of the name, without Sunday-schools, without
prayer meetings, without an educated, spiritual, or even moral
ministry, without a weekly Sabbath religious service of any kind, or
any of the institutions of the gospel which really elevate them. They
have a religion which is not a pure Christianity and which does not
even involve morality.