The Congregational Churches of the country will feel an interest in
marking the progress of these negotiations, and will hail with delight a
consummation that will relieve the denomination from the embarrassment
of sanctioning two organizations in the same State that seem to be
separated only by the color-line.

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NOTES FROM THE SOUTH.

BY SECRETARY A.F. BEARD.

Once more in Nashville. There is no question in my mind but that
Nashville is the educational leader in the South. It is a city of hills
which are crowned with institutions for white and black. These are the
beginnings of greater and better days for this part of "our country." My
duties have taken me to Fisk University. It is a college which has
justly won very high praise. Jubilee and Livingstone Halls are
significant names. One speaks of an historic event, and the other of an
historic person, but the work that goes on in both these large buildings
does no dishonor to one name or the other.

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When Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was in Nashville, he visited
Fisk University. He afterwards told me that he could not conceal his
surprise at what he saw and heard and only with difficulty his emotion
when he arose to address the students.