PARAGRAPHS.

We have many appeals by letter and in person from colored people in the
South, for help from the Hand Fund, to aid in sustaining enterprises
which these people are endeavoring to carry forward. Some of these
schools are heavily in debt. Others are greatly lacking in necessary
facilities, buildings, furniture and teachers. Others are crippled for
want of means to meet current expenses. Many of these institutions are
unwisely located, others have no adequate financial basis to warrant
their existence, and some seem to lack the necessary provision for
supervision and responsibility. Taken all together, they furnish
additional warnings to the people of the North against contributing to
individual or local enterprises in the South without most careful
scrutiny into the facts in each individual instance.

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A colored missionary teacher in one of the most desolate parts of North
Carolina writes us as follows:

"In making out my bill, you will perhaps not understand what I mean by
the amount to be 'deducted.' I desire to give one-tenth of all my
earnings to God. Of course it is His by right. Our missionary has
brought the matter plainly before me, so I desire that you will deduct
$2.00 every month, which will be one-tenth of my entire salary, and put
it where it will be used for the service of Christ."

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Rev. Frank G. Woodworth writes from Tougaloo University.