strial, Augusta, Ga.
Kendall Institute, Sumpter, S. C.
Mary Potter Memorial, Oxford, N. C.
Monticello Academy, Monticello, Ark.
Cotton Plant Academy, Cotton Plant, Ark.
Coulter Memorial Academy, Cheraw, N. C.
Redstone Academy, Lumberton, N. C.
Swift Memorial College, Rogersville, Tenn.

In addition to those in these boarding schools, 112 teachers are
employed in the maintenance of this same number of day schools.

In his last annual report, April 1, 1913, Rev. E. P. Cowan, D. D.,
secretary of the Board submitted the following interesting summary of
its work.

"The Freedmen's Board has ever kept in mind the one great fact that
its work is, first, last and all the time, missionary work. We have
aimed from the very beginning to follow a course that would commend
itself to every man's conscience in the sight of God. We have always
sought the counsel and advice of good men on the field, at times
nearer our work than ourselves, and better able to judge of its
condition. We have endeavored to exert such an influence over the
people among whom we have labored, so that no one could object to it
except he were a heathen or an infidel. As a consequence, all the
opposition we have met with in all these years has been as nothing,
compared with the sympathy and encouragement we have received from
good men.

"We have this year issued our forty-eighth annual report. This
annual report shows that we have now in connection with our church,
four colored Synods, composed of sixteen colored Presbyteries, in
which there are four hundred and four church organizations, with
twenty-six thousand, one hundred and thirty-two communicants, two
hundred and eighty-nine ordained ministers of the Gospel, and
thirteen hundred and seventeen ruling elders.

"Within these Presbyteries, there are one hundred and thirty-six
schools, and in these schools there are 16,427 pupils, taught by 448
teachers, all of whom are professing Christians, and by a rule of
the Board, members of the Presbyterian church.

"In all these schools, the Word of God and the Shorter Catechism are
regularly and daily taught. On the mind and heart of every living
soul that passes in and out of our schools, there is impressed the
fundamental and far-reaching truth, that the chief end of man is to
glorify God and to enjoy Him forever, and th