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VOICES FROM THE FIELD.

We wish our friends to see as we see and hear as we hear from the field,
as to the need of enlargement and the difficulty of closing schools
prematurely, and hence we present some condensed facts as specimens.

McINTOSH, GA.--One hundred and nineteen in a single room and with only
one teacher. No boarding department and scores must be turned away.

FLORENCE, ALA.--In a rapidly growing city, school held in our church
building. Large numbers turned away for lack of room.

JONESBORO, TENN.--No boarding place for either boys or girls. Boys live
in rough rooms in a barn, six in a small room. No more can possibly be
accommodated.

GRAND VIEW, TENN.--Buildings crowded full; no place for any more, yet
pupils are trying to crowd in.

PINE MOUNTAIN, TENN.--Situated in a region nearly a hundred miles long,
without a single school except the almost worthless district schools
for two or three months.

WILLIAMSBURG, KY.--Crowded full of students; more than sixty in one room
large enough for only thirty.

JELLICO, TENN.--Our church and school building will not hold either our