He remarked recently that, if he were able, he would go through the South, arousing the colored people to the need of educating their daughters, showing them how to save means to that end, and urging them to avail themselves of the advantages offered at Spelman.

more strongly than did missionary zeal, as popularly interpreted. After five years' absence only the big memories remain. Having never been South, every new experience was interesting. The delightful water trip from Boston to Savannah, the new species of mosquito in Savannah harbor, the funereal moss-draped trees of Bonaventure

Memories of Spelman.

BY KATE MAY ESTEY.

Seven years ago I decided to go to Spelman Seminary to teach. Fresh from col

Savannah and Atlanta, the brick-red Georgian soil, lending such a peculiar greenness to the grass, the cotton-fields, the Negro cabins.

I shall not forget my first view of the row of sweet gum-trees fronting the old barracks, where I was to find a home and a de

lightful roommate. Across the street loomed Rockefeller Hall, with its lawn in process of evolution, and Packard Hall not yet finished.

Our first supper was served in the teachers' dining-room at No. 1. Though there were several young teachers away from home for the first time, I do not remember that we were homesick. There was a spirit of good-fellowship and helpfulness, born of common interest, which made us feel among friends at once.

I do not recall the first morning in chapel, but I possess a composite picture, as it were, of many mornings in that cheerful room, to which picture always the personality of Miss Packard gives form and character. I hope that her instructive and forceful talks from the chapel platform have left as deep an impression upon the girls' memories as upon mine.

Memories of Spelman seem to cluster thickest about the chapel. Here hundreds of dusky faces assembled each morning, the weird plantation melody was sung to greet Miss Packard and Miss Giles, as they took their accustomed seats. Here were held all the general religious meetings; here we listened to such excellent sermons from the best speakers; here assembled the numerous distinguished guests and dear friends of the seminary; here the farewells were spoken to Nora Gordon and Clara Howard; here, also, we enjoyed many good times on holidays.

My first recitation has ceased to be a mem ory, but I can call up before me class after class, row after row of interested and interesting faces, whose color I soon ceased to be conscious of; students whose progress in higher mathematics I found to compare most favorably with Northern scholarship.

It was this year, too, that brought Miss Upton to Spelman, with her microscopes, bringing the interesting facts of science within the comprehension of the girls, and organizing her Sunday morning class for enthusiastic Bible study.

The second year my duties multiplied, with the oversight of one-half of Rockefeller Hall. The year was full of work, of worry, of encouragement, and pleasure.

I came North through the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, anticipating a return in the fall, but duty led me in another direction and into another kind of work, which de

manded all my thought and energy. Yet, come what may, Spelman can never become to me a memory only; it must ever remain an inspiration in my life.

ATLANTA, Ga., July, 1895.

Editor of HOME MISSION MONTHLY-It was late in the spring of 1881 that I was sitting in my office, busy with plans to promote the success of our great International Cotton Exposition-the first of those famous displays which have done so much for the South-when two very polite ladies walked in and handed me some most unexceptionable introductory letters, saying they were about to establish a school of high order for colored girls and women in Atlanta! Now, the schools already had by no means given satisfaction to our somewhat excited people, and I fear I told these noble women (who were no other than Miss Packard and Miss Giles) rather roughly that I could not help them, that I was opposed to the kind of education they were giving colored girls, which appeared to be chiefly classical.

Well, the school began with eleven students in a low, dark basement of Friendship Church, which was only half floored. I carefully questioned the students as to their studies and method of teaching, and soon became satisfied with the school, and pledged it my hearty support. There was some opposition, chiefly from people who were not born in the South. Some of my former friends were kind enough to express the hope that a building afterwards erected would fall and kill me!

Now, instead of a small, dark basement, we have six substantial brick and as many large wooden buildings on a beautiful campus. All animosity has disappeared, and from eleven students, we have reached an enrollment of 846, with thirty-eight teachers. What hath God wrought!

SIDNEY ROOT.

Spelman Seminary-Its Influence, and an Estimate of Its Value. Spelman Seminary is a power for good. It is to the colored women of the South all that Vassar is to the white women of the North.

Founded in Atlanta in the spring of '81 in a field, from a human point of view, already fully possessed, not a few questioned the

wisdom of the undertaking. But taking into account the facts that Atlanta is the centre of the South, that her climate is unsurpassed, and the prospect of her rapid development more promising than that of any other southern city, Miss Packard and Miss Giles chose that community as being best suited to their endeavors.

Well provided for in higher institutions for the race, it would seem late in the day to conceive the idea of adding another to the number of Atlanta schools; but good as these were, these ladies saw the necessity of opening one more, which should, so far as this section is concerned, be unique in its kind, specific in its mission, and if possible, farther reaching in its results and wider in the sphere of its influence.

So, in a humble way, Spelman Seminary, a school for women and girls, was started. From the beginning it attracted attention, and there were not wanting those who predicted its early and utter collapse; but God was with the founders, and His blessings attended their labors.

Broad as was their range of vision and fully as they realized the need of special effort for the uplifting of their sex in another race, they builded more wisely than they knew. Unheralded and unknown, less than threefourths of a score of years ago were they and their work; to-day the names of the former are household words from Dan to Beersheba, while the latter is the subject of speech and song from the mountains to the sea.

Indeed, it is an enterprise of quick growth and phenomenal proportions.

But for what is Spelman noted? What gives it the country for its field? How is it that it draws not only from the territory of other schools, but also from the very schools themselves. Certainly, it is not alone its material prosperity-its beautiful campus and commodious buildings; for attractive as these are, and as indispensable, other places of learning can boast as much.

It is because, in addition to these, there is at Spelman that something, that strange, indefinable something called influence, so permeated with Christianity as to render its contact contagious and its effects of permanent benefit.

Spelman aims not only at the intellectual advancement of its pupils, but also at their spiritual regeneration. Its motto is "Our Whole School for Christ," and the large

number of lives yearly reclaimed and characters beautified and developed into noble Christian womanhood,stand as visible proofs that this sentiment is acted upon. Herein lie Spelman's strength and glory; the secret source of its success.

But here the salutary effect of this influence does not stop; it extends to the home, and there gives ocular demonstration of the genuineness of the change wrought at school; for temporal improvement follows in the wake of spiritual change and enlight

enment.

It is a matter of record that well-kept homes, left by pupils to attend Spelman, have on their inmates' return, received attention to this detail and to that until the whole presented a still more inviting appearance, both without and within, and less sightly ones have been made comparatively new.

Society, too, is gradually, but none the less effectually receiving its share of benefit therefrom; its regeneration is coming to pass.

Young women having an idea of the deeper meaning of life, and characterized by a loftiness of mind and an integrity of principle that would do honor to the women of any race, are doing duty as lights wherever they settle; their rays are penetrating the gloom about them, and illumination follows as a logical result.

And wherever allowed to have sway, the influence of Spelman gives shape and intelligent direction to the policies of the Sundayschools and churches of the race. Thus it is contributing its part to the work of making the world better and advancing the kingdom of God on earth.

Exclusively for the education of women and girls, I know of no other educational institution for the race which equals it in the value of its work. It is a school and a Christian home combined; a home whose atmosphere is wholesome and whose environments stimulate to noble efforts and lofty aims.

Emphasizing the importance of training the hand as well as the head and the heart, it gives due attention to the industrial feature of education, and, in this department of activity, it is equaled by few, if any, of our other schools, and is surpassed by none.

Its preparation is for the future, as well as the present; it qualifies young women to discharge intelligently the duties of wife

hood, to fit the coming generations to meet the responsibilities of citizenship, to administer public affairs, and to fill with acceptance positions of trust and honor.

It is gratifying to see the colored people coming more and more to appreciate the worth and work of this noble seminary of learning. It indicates that they repose confidence in the management; that they feel they have in it a training home for their daughters, where correct discipline is administered by consecrated Christian women, women who give their lives, while others give their money, to prepare toilers for service in the Master's vineyard.

As a means in the elevation of the race, Spelman is invaluable; and occupying the place it does in our educational system, it is indispensable.

WILLIAM E. HOLMES, Secretary Board of Trustees, Spelman Seminary.

Atlanta, July 25, 1895.

Spelman Seminary.

OXFORD, GA., Aug. 14, 1895. Through my sister, Miss Laura A. Haygood, now a missionary in China, I became acquainted with Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia. Miss Packard was there and Miss Giles, each supplemental of the other. Many workers for God among the poor and lowly I have known; only one other, an old Quakeress, ever impressed me as these two Christian women did. When Miss Packard was translated-I say not "dies" of such a woman-I feared a little for the school. But there was no need; God was there with Miss Giles, and her band of holy women.

During nearly the whole period of my connection with the "John F. Slater Fund" I made regular visits to Spelman Seminary. No money apportioned by me from 1882 till 1891 was ever better used. And I knew nearly all the chief schools for the Southern Negroes. Better work is not done anywhere than at Spelman. Less pretentiousness there cannot be. Whatever concerns bodily, mental or spiritual health is considered and provided for at Spelman. The houses and premises are clean; the discipline and instruction are of the very best; the atmosphere is religious, without an undertone of cant. To me it is joy to preach to the young women of Spelman Seminary. I look forward with pleasure to an appointment there in October.

What has been done in building and equipment is thoroughly done.

What the seminary needs is endowment; not less than half a million. If any school for any race in this world deserves endowment, Spelman does.

ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD.

In the fall of 1891, two native girls from the Congo came to Spelman to be educated and trained to go back with the good news of Christ's love to their perishing people. They had been in Scotland long enough to learn much of civilization, and they spoke English with a pretty Scotch accent..

Lena Clarke, whose Congo name is Vunga, was taken from Banana, at the mouth of the Congo, and sent, with Emma Yongbloed, to the mission at Palabala by Emma's father, a Dutch trader. At that time Lena spoke Portuguese, the language of her father, and also the Congo. In 1886, she could scarcely read or speak English at all, but after that made rapid progress. In 1887, she was baptized. After that she used to assist the missionaries, sometimes acting as an interpreter. Rev. Joseph Clark adopted her, gave her his name, and, early in 1889, sent her to Scotland. He afterward heard of Spelman through Miss Nora Gordon, and, in 1891, he brought her to the United States. She pursued her studies faithfully until last May, when she graduated from the Missionary Training Department, and in July sailed, under appointment by the Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission Society, of Boston, to work with Mr. Clark on the Upper Congo.

Lena's companion, Maggie Rattray, the Nkebani of the picture, was a little slave girl, who was ransomed for less than fifteen dollars. Mr. Herbert Probert says: "When she was brought to us and offered for sale, she was in a very unclean condition. Poor little girl! how little did she realize that this transaction between the white man and her master would be the turning point in her life! After a good deal of talk, the necessary number of pieces of cloth was handed to her master, and Nkebani was free." She has won all hearts at Spelman by her quiet, earnest manner. She will this fall begin the missionary training course.

Emma Yongbloed, Zinga, came with Miss Nora Gordon, to whom was given the Congo name of Sita. Miss Gordon feels a special interest in Emma, as she was under her

southeast Georgia, where she had had great success for three summers. She remained in the Atlanta schools until her appointment by the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, of Boston, as missionary to the Congo. Almost from the time she gave herself to Christ she consecrated her life, to work in Africa, if the way should open. She left home and friends to begin service in that dark land, April 24, 1890, arriving at Lukungu, on the Congo, two months later, where she remained until December, 1894, when she was compelled by ill health to

afterward was in the public school for a short time; she then entered Atlanta University, where she remained nearly three years. She became a pupil in Spelman Seminary in the fall of 1881, a few months after it was founded, and very soon after coming under its influence she became a Christian, and was baptized by Father Quarles just before he left Atlanta, never to return. She graduated from the Academic Department of Spelman Seminary in 1887, and was at once appointed a teacher in the public schools at Atlanta, her only previous experience in teaching having been in a country school in

NKEBANI.

SITA.

leave her beloved work. She has special aptness for training children, which, combined with the characteristics of a leader, and a determined persistence that overcomes all obstacles, has made her remarkably successful in teaching and in mission work. While on the Congo, in addition to her other duties as missionary and teacher, and notwithstanding frequent fevers, she had the care of about fifty little native boys, whom she mothered and trained to right ways of living. She is now at Spelman Seminary, where she hopes to gain strength to again take up her chosen work.