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through the dey, and during the two hours we teach in the evening both
men and women come. They are industrious and quite as apt as we
have reason to.expect. We teach from 10 in the morning until 2 in the
afternoon, with a short recess. Then we have classes of women in the
barracks, who cannot leave to go to the school room. This does not } oocupy
us more than two hours.

‘“‘ We hold our night school from 5} until 73—forty usually in “attohill
ance. On Third and Fifth-day we have a sewing class for the
little girls. Fourth and Seventh-day evenings being their seasons for
religious meeting, we omit the school, and occupy the time in writing let-
ters for the people.

‘The four welcome boxes ve arrived. The articles in the last one
are very valuable, especially the books, slates, counting balls and letter
blocks, and we thank you, in the name of the people, for your kindness.

« When Superintendent Nichols can get material, the boys will be en-
gaged in work, ‘Uncle Cain’ is very willing to teach mat making,”

‘It has been the constant aim of the Board to employ those
teachers only who enter the work from conscientious motives,
and with a sincere desire to benefit those among whom they labor.
From a letter, written to a member of the Education Committee,
by one of our teachers before entering nH her duties, we ex-
tract the following :

‘Very earnestly I have sought to be guided aright i in ‘his
matter, to avoid hasty conclusions or mistaken ideas: of philan-
thropy. If my time has not yet come to enter this broad field
of labor, if other and more efficient workers are at hand to break
the path for feebler ones to follow, then I will cheerfully with- |
draw, content to possess my soul in patience. I know the respon-
sibility will be heavy; it will all be very different from anything
my life has known; yet, with divine sanction and assistance, and
the belief that I was engaged in a sacred work, I humbly:trust
I should be enabled to discharge my duties faithfully, and be
sustained through all the trials I might have to undergo.” |

The spirit which this extract breathes commends itself to the
young of our religious society, many of whom have qualifications
for usefulness in leading the despised descendants of Africa from
the degradation, consequent on their late enslaved condition, to
a higher degree of civilization and independence.

Information having been received by the Board, at its meeting
on the 7th of Twelfth month, of the destitution of the Freed-