Nearly all our schools—­chartered, normal and even common—­give some industrial training.

At Fisk, the young men are taught wood-working and printing; the young women, nursing, cooking, dress-making and house-keeping.

At Talladega, the young men learn farming, carpentry, painting, glazing, tinning, blacksmithing and printing; the young women, cooking, house-keeping, plain sewing and other needle-work.

At Tougaloo, the young men learn farming, carpentry, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, painting, turning and tinning; the young women, sewing, dressmaking, cooking and housekeeping.

At Straight, the young men receive instruction in printing, carpentry, and floriculture; the young women, needlework, cooking and housekeeping.

At Tillotson, carpentry is taught the young men; needlework, cooking and housekeeping, the young women.

Our normal schools at Memphis, Tenn., Macon, Ga., and Williamsburg, Ky., have carpentry, printing, and other industrial training for the young men, and training in the various arts of home life for the young women.

At Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Macon, Thomasville, Athens, Ala., Marion, Mobile, Pleasant Hill, Sherwood, and other normal, graded and common schools, the young women are trained in the things which they will most need in making comfortable and pleasant homes.  Indeed, we make it our special care that the girls shall everywhere in our work be taught these things, so essential to the uplifting of a people.  In many places where we have no schools, the pastor’s wife, or our special lady missionary, is doing this same kind of work.

THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS.

At Fisk, Talladega, Tougaloo and Straight, there have been during the year theological classes.  The Theological Department of Howard University, at Washington, has been supported by this Association.  Even in some of our normal schools Biblical instruction has been given to some who are now preachers and some who intend to preach.  But the number trained has not been sufficient to supply our pastorless churches.  The need of a general theological seminary for our churches in the South is becoming imperative.  The extensive enlargement of our church work, which ought to begin at once, can scarcely be made successful without this.  Who is the one to seize this opportunity to establish an institution of untold possibilities in advancing the Kingdom of Christ on earth—­a place where ministers shall be prepared for the work in the South and for foreign missions in Africa?

    STATISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE SOUTH.

Total number of Schools              60
Total number of Instructors         260
Total number of Pupils           10,094
Theological Students                 82
Law Students                         10
College Students                     51
College Preparatory Students        103
Normal Students                     784
Grammar Grades                    2,127
Intermediate Grades               3,181
Primary Grades                    3,773
In two grades                        17

CHURCH WORK IN THE SOUTH.