without skill, and rearing their children in ignorance and vice. It is
the part of Christian wisdom and the duty of the Christian churches of
this land to see that the people in this densely-packed and fertile
region shall be promptly met with the means of Christian education. Our
school at Tougaloo should be enabled to meet in some degree the
opportunity it has to prepare and furnish preachers and teachers for
this growing population; and schools and churches should be multiplied
to meet the emergency.

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NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.

BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.


Nothing stimulates to good deeds more effectively than good deeds
themselves. I copy the following notice, which was circulated on a
neatly printed sheet among the members of a certain church in Boston:

The "Felice" circle of "King's Daughters" will hold a sale for
the benefit of the Williamsburg Academy, established for the
education of the "Mountain Whites" in Kentucky, on Friday,
March 21, from 8 to 10 P.M., and on Saturday, March 22, from 3
to 10 P.M., at Miss Maxwell's, 37 Allen Street, Boston.
Admission 10 cents.

The enthusiastic leader of this circle of "King's Daughters" thought
that possibly she might raise $30 and so constitute one of their number
a Life Member of the American Missionary Association. Imagine our