lish in this number of THE MISSIONARY an article copied from _The
Talladega College Record_, giving a detailed account of the industrial
work carried on in that institution. We invite attention to it as showing
the wide range of those industries, and of their thorough and systematic
arrangement.

The School and Church.

As is the school and church in any nation or community, so are the people.
The Chinese for ages with universal education, such as it is, and the
religion of Confucius, are a superstitious, stagnant, and an unheroic
race. Europe in the middle ages, with no schools and an ambitious
hierarchy, became ignorant and war-like, oppressed in Church and State. In
these United States, their abundant educational facilities and a free
church have developed largely the most intelligent and free people on the
earth. But we said "largely," for there are millions of people in this
nation that are still in the lowest grades of ignorance and superstition.
There are four millions of colored people who can neither read nor write,
and have not yet escaped from the degrading effects of centuries of
slavery. There are among the mountaineers of the South two millions of
people, descendants of a noble race, who have for more than a hundred
years been largely without schools or intelligent churches, and they have
fallen far below the intelligence and enterprise of their fathers. Our
American Indians, though comparatively a handful, still need our care.
More than half their school population is without education or industrial
habits.

It is among these unfortunate races that the American Missionary
Association is doing its great work. It comes to them with its schools and
churches--its schools religious and its churches intelligent--and
throughout the wide range of its work, lifting them up in knowledge and
the industries of life, and in all these directions it has accomplished
great results, planting wisely with good seed, and is beginning already to
reap large and continually enlarging harvests.

We print in this number of the MISSIONARY two articles written by
Secretaries of the Association, which give reliable statements touching
the deplorable needs of some of these people, and yet of the cheering
transformations made in their condition by our schools and churches. We
invite attention to these two articles.

The Year of Jubilee.

APPEAL FOR RELEASE FROM DEBT AND LIMITATIONS.

A Jubilee Fund of $10