institutions have. These normal schools are eighteen in number, and
are situated at Lexington and Williamsburg, Ky.; Memphis, Jonesboro,
Grand View and Pleasant Hill, Tenn.; Wilmington and Beaufort, N.C.;
Charleston and Greenwood, S.C.; Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Thomasville
and McIntosh, Ga.; Athens, Mobile and Marion, Ala. Adding to these
the normal departments of our five chartered institutions, gives us
twenty-three normal schools in the South.

Besides these, we have in the South thirty-seven which we class as
common schools. Eight of these are graded, with two or three teachers
each. Nearly all are parochial schools. The teachers are in both the
day schools and the Sunday-schools, and are not only school teachers,
but church missionaries. They train the young of our congregations
for greater usefulness, encourage many of the most promising to go to
higher institutions, teach the parents better ideas of home life, and
lead all ages to a more intelligent and spiritual worship.


INDUSTRIAL WORK.

Nearly all our schools--chartered, normal and even common--give some
industrial training.

At Fisk, the young men are taught wood-working and printing; the young
women, nursing, cooking, dress-making and house-keeping.

At Talladega, the young men learn farming, carpentry, painting,
glazing, tinning, blacksmithing and printing; the young women,
cooking, house-keeping, plain sewing and other needle-work.