Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri and other States to see this famous school
and witness the graduating exercises of their children. They spoke out
of hearts full of gratitude to their Northern friends for making it
possible for their children to fit themselves for their life-work in the
schools of the American Missionary Association.

An ordination service of special interest was held at Atlanta, Ga., in
July, when Mr. H.H. Proctor was ordained to the gospel ministry as
pastor of the First Church. He is twenty-five years old, one of "Uncle
Tom's" sons, and is a graduate of Fisk University and Yale Divinity
School. This was the first ordination held in this church, and the first
Negro pastor to serve it, as all the former pastors were Northern men.
Already all departments of the church have taken on new life, and the
future is full of hope. This is one of our largest and most influential
churches of the South, and starts out auspiciously with Pastor Proctor,
as a self-supporting church.

The Second Church of Memphis, Tenn., which has been self-supporting for
a number of years, reports a year of prosperity under its new pastor,
Rev. George V. Clark. The building has been renovated, and over fifty
persons added to the church. The church at Chattanooga, Tenn., with Rev.
Jos. E. Smith as pastor, has made heroic struggles during these hard
times as a self-supporting plant. At times the struggle has seemed
greater than they could bear, but in the midst of all they have been
cheered and sustained by the Lord. The new parsonage at Marietta, Ga.,
gives Pastor Lane a pleasant home. Our church at this point is near the
Kenesaw Mountains, where Sherman shouted to his soldiers, "Hold the
fort, for I am coming."

The people at Louisville were glad to have the field missionary expound