The organization of Young People’s Societies of Christian Endeavor among the young people in the mountains is being carried on very successfully by the missionaries and superintendents of the American Missionary Association in that region.  A recent report from one of the superintendents gives a list of nine places at which Endeavor Societies have been recently organized.  The American Missionary Association has been especially active in this work of spreading the Endeavor movement among our young Highlanders of the South.  The Endeavor Society meets just their need, and furnishes opportunities for development and growth which are greatly appreciated.

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Extract from a letter, Andersonville, Ga.:  It is pitiful to see the children come so regularly four or five miles to school, their feet protruding from their broken shoes, bringing their baskets of tuition in the way of chickens, eggs, etc., to pay their school bills.  One longs to cook up the things brought and give food to the poor children and wrap them in warm clothing, but I know the only way to make them self-reliant and keep them from the spirit of mendicancy is to require them to pay.

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NEW ORLEANS, LA.—­Rev. Geo. W. Moore writes:  About thirty of the boarding students and fifty of the day students have avowed their faith in Christ since Friday evening, when I first began the Gospel exercises in their behalf.  All of the boarders of Straight University are now in the Christian household of faith.

MISS AMY WILLIAMS.

On Sunday, February 24, at Rochester, N. Y., another of our valued missionaries passed on beyond the work and opportunities of this life to her blessed reward.

Miss Amy Williams entered the service of the Association in 1868 as missionary teacher at Augusta, Ga.  The next year she was transferred to Atlanta, Ga., where she was for many years the principal of the Storrs School.  Retiring from this principalship in 1885, she spent a few years North, but her heart continually turned to her loved people, and in 1893 she accepted appointment as principal of the Slater Normal School, at Knoxville, Tenn., where her work was characterized by the same thoroughness and ability as that at Atlanta.  Finding that her health would not permit her to return the second year, she wrote in December:  “My heart just aches to go back South.  Every other work seems insignificant.”

Mrs. T. N. Chase, of Atlanta, Ga., writes as follows: 

“Nearly twenty-five years ago, in the beauty of her young womanhood, she took charge of Storrs School, shaping it through those plastic years, and leaving the impress of her grand life upon it.  At supper table to-night I ventured to ask one of the older girls who sits beside me if she remembered Miss Williams.  How her face lighted up as she said:  “Oh yes; she gave me my first Bible.”