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STATE CAPITOL AT RALEIGH.

A SUNDAY AT TALLADEGA, ALA.

BY PRESIDENT DEFOREST.

Our different religious services begin early in the day. At 7.30, soon
after breakfast and prayers in the dining hall, the Young Men's Christian
Association holds its meeting for an hour. The Sunday-school, with a large
attendance and many classes occupying different school rooms, convenes at
9.15, with the regular church service following at 10.30. We are never
through with this without feeling keenly the need of a larger, better and
better ventilated house of worship. A new chapel is longed for each
Sabbath, often through the week, and especially at commencement season
when our varied anniversary exercises are all crowded into one small
inadequate and inappropriate room.

Soon after dinner more than a score of students, mainly young men, with a
few of our teachers, go out to seven different mission Sunday-schools, two
of which are in our own tasteful chapels, others in country churches, and
one in a private house, where they meet about 300 different pupils of all
sorts, garbs and ages, but for the most part attentive listeners eager for
instruction, as well as for the papers which Northern benevolence, through
sundry boxes and barrels, enable us to supply. This mission Sunday-school
work began with the first year of the College Church and has accomplished
a large and growing good. Through these schools the college multiplies
itself, carrying the Gospel, with opposition to tobacco and intoxicants,
into needy places. These mission schools are a cordon of outposts
surrounding the citadel. The most remote is five and a half miles away,
and incidentally a good share of pluck is developed by those who, through
cold or heat, mud or dust, regularly make their Sabbath day rounds.

Comparatively few are regularly in these mission enterprises. For those at
home there is the quiet hour and prayer meetings, a gathering in the
interests of purity or temperance--enough to employ the time to the early
supper hour. After that comes the last public meeting of the day in the
chapel, which for some time has been conducted by our Society of Christian
Endeavor. The day is a full one, with large opportunities for personal
growth and usefulness.

From a recent visit, I am able to write more fully of one of the meetings
of the Young Men's Christian Association. The hour was early, but the room
was well filled. The leader