ry way, but by pushing more and more
vigorously. In this moral warfare, volunteers must be encouraged. There
is no need of special bounties, nor of drafting; only furnish the means
to meet the meagre salaries, and the recruits will crowd to the field in
abundance, but their numbers _must be_ greatly enlarged. Hence the great
need, as in the dark days of the war, of multiplying the means of
equipment. The money should be poured out with a lavish hand to sustain
a vastly enlarged working force. Money can never be spent at a better
time, nor for a better purpose.

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$500,000.

This is the sum recommended for the use of this Association by the
National Council, and by our own Annual Meeting. These figures have not
only these indorsements, but also the far greater one of the needs of
the field. Some of our schools are packed to overflowing and scholars
are turned away because there is no room, places are opening for
enlarged church work which we ought to have the means of entering, and
industrial facilities should be increased. The need for such enlargement
is illustrated in part by the items which follow.

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CALLS FOR ENLARGEMENT.

Our schools, with scarcely an exception, are asking for more teachers
for their over-crowded rooms, and two or three pulpits stand vacant
because we have not suitable pastors for them. We are able to report
great enthusiasm along every line of our work and a spirit of uncommon
consecration among all our teachers this year. We are having a noble
year of thorough work.

From Greenwood, S.C., comes this word: "For the last month we have had
over two hundred and thirty students, and have refused between
seventy-five and one hundred applications for admission because there
was not one inch of room for them."

Our school at Meridian has outgrown the building erected for it, and has
overflowed into the church. It is another illustration of the fact that
the children of the emancipated freedmen are as earnest for education as
were their fathers and mothers when they swarmed into the temporary
schools provided for them.

A letter from Wilmington, N.C., says: "Without another teacher, I do not
know what to do, unless it be to send away about twenty-five pupils.
This I would be very sorry to do, as I would hardly know which ones to
send and there would be no school for them to re-enter, as the public
schools are