Leagues, Christian Endeavor Societies, Y.M.C.A. and similar
organizations. All have had experience in some of these branches of
work. The Association licensed nine of them for one year, and ordained
the tenth to the regular work of a minister of the Gospel. Full of hope,
courage and zeal, they give promise of usefulness.

The day of the corn-field and blacksmith preachers, is past. Some of
them were good men. They have been exceedingly useful in holding the
people together in church organizations and maintaining the forms of
worship, even where gross errors were allowed. The present generation
_must_ have and can have intelligent preaching from the lips of men
above reproach.

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THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.

BY REV. B.A. IMES.


Another "best of all meetings" has occurred. The Union Church at Fisk
University, Nashville, Tenn., together with the combined population of
that interesting institution, was "our host," and was most cordial in
the entertainment of guests, from April 3d to 7th. Jonesboro, Knoxville,
Chattanooga, Sherwood, Memphis and Nashville, Tenn., with Louisville,
Ky., Sand Mountain, Florence and Athens, Ala., and Little Rock, Ark.,
were represented by from one to three delegates each, including pastors,
except in cases of Louisville and Sand Mountain.

Rev. Samuel Rose of Jonesboro, gave the opening discourse--"If ye love