Southern when it declared for slavery, this year uttered these words:

"It is a travesty on religion, this disposition to canonize
missionaries who go to the Dark Continent, while we have
nothing but social ostracism for the white teacher who is
doing a work no less noble at home. The solution to the race
problem rests with the white people who live among the blacks,
and who are willing to become their teachers in a missionary
spirit."

Cruel and unreasoning is prejudice, but when the public platforms, and
especially the pulpits, begin to yield in their utterances to the sway
of logic and humanity, by and by public opinion will feel their force.
Our institutions and our missionaries have compelled the respect of
the Southern people. This year many expressions of it have been heard.

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_EDUCATIONAL WORK._

CHARTERED INSTITUTIONS.

During the past year we have directly sustained five chartered
institutions in the South--Fisk University, Talladega College,
Tougaloo University, Straight University and Tillotson Institute.
Every year that passes emphasizes anew that these are most wisely
located, so that each is a center of far-reaching power, and
supplements the work of all the others.

Fisk University at Nashville, Tenn., with its 503 students, has had a