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cavalier training, still held back by the poor black and
the poor white, the products of her accursed institution. Now that is all
abolished, she needs help from the North. I doubt if we in the North
would be any better had we been placed in the same environment, and
our superiority may be due as much to soil, climate, and the consequent
unprofitableness of slave labor, as to our Puritan ancestry.
The tide of immigration is beginning to turn toward this State from
Georgia, and many coming from the Dakotas. The mass of ignorance is
appalling. I realize in part, I think, the difficulty of getting the needs of
the whites before a sympathizing audience. When it comes to a white
man's needs and his condition, too many church members and others
substitute the scientific theory of the survival of the fittest for Christ's
law of love. They forget too, I fear, that many of these people in the
mountains are victims of slavery as innocent as the Negro; and they do
not see that their indifference is letting them lie in the hard bed which
circumstances, largely beyond their control, have made for them. If
they will only give us money, "greenbacks," if need be, and enable us

to get the young out of bed on their intellectual and spiritual feet, I shall
be satisfied. And if our Congressmen and politicians would bury the
"Bloody Shirt," and stop throwing stones over Mason and Dixon's
fence, and out of their personal means give, what is too often given
uselessly, to the Association and other similar Boards, the questions
which spring from sectional prejudice would soon be solved. I do
believe that what the American Missionary Association stands for is the
panacea for all political and social ills.

REVIVALS.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.
BY REV. GEO. H HAINES.
We are in the midst of a glorious revival. Rev. James Wharton was
with us six days. What wonderful help he has been to our work during
his stay with us. We had eleven hopeful conversions. We continued our
meetings after he left us, and our total number of conversions is twenty.
Among the persons who have left the ways of sin and turned into the
way of life are two very remarkable cases. A woman of about fifty
years of age, a drunkard and one of the most profane women in our city,
asked the people of God to pray for her. It seemed hard for her to
understand the simple plan of salvation, and that the Lord Jesus would
save her if she would believe. The evening after Mr. Wharton left she
received the evidence of her conversion. I can never tell how the news
of this woman's conversion spread over the city. It created as much
excitement as the news of the man who was found by our Saviour
among the tombs. Crowds came to our services to see if the news was
true, and when they heard the testimony for Christ they rejoiced with
us.
The other is a man of about the same age, who has been a great
disbeliever in the word of God, though his wife was a member of our
church. He was a very strong man in all the societies in the city. He has

been led out of darkness into light. The people say: "God bless Mr.
Wharton." Our Sunday-school has grown wonderfully in the last month.
Indeed, every department of our church work is looking up.

BEAUFORT, N.C.
BY REV. J.P. SIMS.
Evangelist Wharton's visit did us a great deal of good. Not only have
souls been converted, but the church has been edified. In the revival
there were six hopeful conversions, and four joined our church, among
them a very promising young man.
Our people are becoming more and more willing to divide their little
mite with the church. They make a special effort once a month to help
raise the pastor's salary by giving what they call a "surprise party,"
bringing packages of flour, sugar, coffee, meal, rice, fish, etc., for
which I give them credit. Sometimes the unconverted are with them.
They come in singing, fill the table, then a prayer, and return at once,
singing as they go. By this process we are able to send in a better report
than we have been doing.

CENTRAL CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS, LA.
BY REV. JOHN W. WHITTAKER.
We have just passed through a precious season of revival. We began a
series of meetings during the week of prayer. God's presence and
blessing were manifestly with us, so we were constrained to continue
them another week, holding meetings every night. Fifteen were turned
to God. Nine of them have united with our church and have begun
service for the Master.