been reported as given in our mission churches for benevolence, and
$21,658.57 for their own expenses--again over last year of $660.03 in
benevolence and $2,322.62 in church expenses. Besides all this and all
that in various ways has failed to be reported to us, have been
the vacation work of our students, the large work of our previous
graduates, the indirect results of many kinds, and the unknown results
and influences of great power and far-reaching importance which have
gone forth from our institutions and missionaries whose only possible
record is in God's Book of Remembrance.

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THE SOUTH.

In the South, we are directly reaching three classes--the colored
people, the mountain whites, and the new settlers from the North and
from the old countries. Indirectly we are reaching many more. The
schools we plant often incite others to plant schools; the houses of
worship we aid in erecting cause others to be erected. A single neat,
but inexpensive building for a country church of colored people has
been known to occasion the building or repairing of at least nine
church buildings of neighboring white people. The incontestably good
results of our work among the colored people are slowly but surely
undermining race prejudice. In spite of all the race trouble during
the past year and the increasingly bitter utterances of some papers
and some public speakers, during no other year in the history of our
country have so many manly words in favor of the Negro been printed in
Southern papers, and sounded from the pulpits and platforms of the
South. It was in a Southern University and before a Southern audience
that a Southern man, a Bishop of a Southern church which took the name