industries were crowded into old cabins and attic
rooms.

After hearing these details, our visitor, who is a judicious and
prosperous business man as well as a benevolent Christian, said,
"These new buildings are needed. I offer you the money for the two
buildings at the place you have last named. I know it will increase
somewhat your current expenses, but _can't you trust the churches to
come to your help?_"

The results of that and subsequent interviews are two fine buildings,
one giving adequate school accommodations, and the other giving a
large and commodious shop, facilitating both instruction and
production.

Subsequently, the same large-hearted and liberal gentleman repeated
his benefaction where equally needed enlargement will soon be
furnished.

Once more. In a Southern city our school building is too small, the
lot does not permit industrial work, and changes in the population
have surrounded the locality with saloons and houses of ill-fame. A
change must be made or we must abandon the place. A lady who knows
these facts offers to give us $2,000 with which to purchase four
acres of land most eligibly situated for our work, and to give us
the money to build a school-house with eight large school-rooms with
commodious fixtures and appliances. All this, of course, implies more
teachers and additional running expense. Shall we accept the gift and
trust the churches to furnish the money? Or, to state the matter in
general terms: When the need for enlargement is very great, and God
sends to us benevolent donors, who are willing to furnish the means
for the enlargement, are we wrong in trusting the churches for their
part of the needed help? We believe we are not. We think the
churches would regard us as recreant to our trust if we refused to
take the funds thus providentially proffered to us.

But our story is not all told. Other donors in the last few years
have done likewise, and there still are cases where the pressure for
enlargement is as great as in any of the instances given. We must
mention one. In a large Southern city our school building is so
inadequate that the Principal writes: "We have an extremely large
school, and yet nearly three hundred pupils were turned off for lack
of seating capacity." In addition to this, the Teachers' Home
adjoining the school building, which was once a Southern home, is
unhealthy from inadequate under-drainage. We have repeatedly
attempted to remedy this difficulty