oratorio of "Elijah," both in the city and at the University, with
marked success.

The address at the graduating exercises of the Normal Department was
delivered by Rev. C.S. Smith of Nashville, Secretary of the
Sunday-school Union of the A.M.E. Church. It was an earnest and
forcible appeal to the colored people of the South to respond to the
efforts made in their behalf by Northern friends, by doing the utmost
possible for themselves. Many readers of the MISSIONARY will remember
Mr. Smith as the delegate of the A.M.E. Church to the Triennial
Council in Chicago. The Sunday-school Union has just purchased a
handsome building on the public square in Nashville as a publishing
house, and under Mr. Smith's management has been eminently
successful.

The missionary sermon on Sunday morning, June 10th, was preached by
Dr. Warren A. Candler, who has just been honored by being elected
President of Emory College, Oxford, Ga. All will remember that this
place was vacated some two or three years ago by Dr. Atticus G.
Haygood, that he might devote himself entirely to the work connected
with the administration of the John F. Slater Fund. Dr. Candler is a
strong, liberal and earnest man, who will wield a great power
wherever he labors.

The President of the University preached the baccalaureate sermon
from the words, "My kingdom is not of this world." The anniversary of
the Literary Societies was held Friday night, June 8th, and the
Senior Preparatory class had its exhibition on Thursday night, the
7th, at which time eleven were admitted to College, having passed
satisfactory examinations. Necessarily the growth of numbers in the