As Mr. McAfee now goes from us to other service, his associates in the office bear cordial testimony to the high-minded qualities of character which have marked his intercourse in all his official relations as well as to his tireless fidelity in carrying out the will of the Executive Committee in their direction of the interests committed to them. Mr. McAfee will be pleasantly remembered by the schools and institutions as well as by his associates in the A. M. A. for his uniform courtesy and brotherliness and by the genial spirit of a Christian gentleman which has marked his service towards all with whom he has had to do. In view of his departure, the Executive Committee in September through the Chairman of the Committee of Missions expressed the great appreciation felt by all of them of Mr. McAfee's spirit and service, and of their deep debt of gratitude for the self-forgetful and efficient way in which he has handled his department. Mr. McAfee bears with him the kind regards and best wishes of every department of our work. W SECRETARY BROWNLEE E are happy to introduce to our readers and to the schools and churches the Rev. Fred Leslie Brownlee, elected to the position of Corresponding Secretary to take the place and work which Mr. Joseph E. McAfee has resigned. Secretary Brownlee was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1883. He was graduated from Ohio State University with the A.B. Degree in 1907 and took the Master Degree in 1908. After attending Union Theological Seminary, New York, from 1908-1910, he became pastor of Grand View Heights Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, 1910-1914, when he returned to Union Theological Seminary and was duly graduated in 1915. After a year of graduate work at Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University Teachers' College, specializing in educational theory and practice, he was appointed to be director of Religious Education in the First Congregational Church of Columbus in association with Dr. Gladden and Carl S. Patton for four years. In 1918 he became Director of Religious Education and its associate pastor at Pilgrim Church, Columbus, Ohio, of which Dr. Dan F. Bradley is pastor. He is a member of the Religious Education Council of the Religious Educational Association, and Chairman of the Religious Educational Committee of the Federated Churches of Cleveland. Mr. Brownlee was also instructor at the Western Reserve University in the department of Religious Education. It will be seen that there has been both special and thorough preparation and a practical experience not only in direction of Religious Education, but also in Church work, where it called for high efficiency. This experience will commend our new Secretary at once to our co-workers in the various fields of work for which the Association stands, with the emphasis of the administration on its higher Christian interests. Secretary Brownlee receives the hearty welcome of those who are to be his associates, and is cordially introduced to our schools and teachers, whose acquaintance he hopes to make in due time. In view of the withdrawal of Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury from active ser vice in the American Missionary Association, the Executive Committee has placed upon its records its high appreciation of the ability and devotion which have characterized her presentation of the work and needs of the Association during a period of twenty-five years. Mrs. Woodbury will long be remembered by the many friends in the churches who have listened to her earnest appeals, and will carry with her that grateful memories. HARRY TAKES-THE-ENEMY UR missionary to the Crow In dians has sent us in his report an item regarding one of his Christian workers. His name is Harry Takes The Enemy. He was born about fifty years ago in the midst of the old savage camp. He spent his youth in the religion of worship of plants, wood, the sun, tobacco, and other deities of the people. In fact, all the heritage of a thousand years of savage custom were his. At the age of fourteen, his name was won by his capture single handed of a Blackfoot warrior. He became a Christian at the age of forty, was made a deacon of the Black Lodge church in 1917, and became the preacher in 1919. Last year, during the very bad R roads, he seldom failed to drive eleven miles once a week to receive his catechetical and theological lesson. He calls steadily on the sick, and once this summer he made 63 calls in a few days on the healthy. A couple of weeks ago when the Indians were invited to the Billings Fair which is almost equivalent to a state fair, he went along, and held a service on the Sabbath. He took with him all the children around to see the fine horses, cows, machinery, farm products and other exhibits. Incidentally, he also won $75.00 in prizes with his race horse. Last but not least in this brief description of my friend and helper he sat up all night recently seeking to induce a man to become a Christian. STRAIGHT COLLEGE, NEW ORLEANS EV Louis J. Luethi, for nine years pastor of the Second Congregational Church, East Toledo, has been appointed to take the chair of history in Straight Col PROFESSOR LUETHI lege, New Orleans, La., and is now at the head of that department. Mr. Luethi will also act as assistant to the president, and especially as a preacher in the college chapel. Mrs. Luethi, a graduate of Oberlin College, will teach mathematics in the institution. Mr. Luethi sends to us an interesting little account of a cosmopolitan gathering that was held immediately after the National Council at Boston at the summer home of President Howard A. M. Briggs of Straight in Northfield, Mass. It was in the nature of a university extension course. The conference proved to be of exceeding interest. Our southern ministers were keen and appreciative and thoroughly alive to the highest and best standards. They let nothing go unobserved. The foreign guests were deeply impressed with what they saw and heard, and they on their part brought a blessing to their American friends. It is the purpose of President Briggs to repeat these experiences in this kind of extension work in the summer seasons in the belief that it will be especially helpful to ministers and teachers. Rear row left to right: W. E. Northey, Parkin College, Kent Town, South Australia; Rev. R. E. Salmon, Roatt Park Congregational Church, Cardiff, Wales; Rev. G. J. Thomas, Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. L. J. Luethi, Professor of History, Straight College. Second row: Mrs. W. F. Slocum, Wakefield, Mass.; Dr. Alfred Lawless, Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. Arthur F. Elmes, Wilmington, N. C.; Rev. D. G. Munroe, Hopetown, British Guiana. T Third row: Theodore Pilgrim, BritishHonduras, student at Straight College; Miss Mary Luethi, New Haven, Conn.; Dr. W. F. Slocum; President Howard A. M. Briggs; S. Jas. Thompson, Athens, Ga.; Rev. James A. Herod, Abbeville, La.; George Smith, Huston, Texas, student Straight College. Fourth row: Professor Walter G. Mitchell, Williamstown, Mass.; Rev. J. H. Pickens, Marietta, Ga.; Rev. W. Morgan, Cardiff, Wales; Rev. J. R. Mallard, Andersonville, Ga.; Rev. Bertram E. Lee Woolf, Liverpool, England. TILLOTSON COLLEGE, AUSTIN, TEXAS AILLOTSON College, Austin, Texas, began its institutional life in a large five story stone building known as "Allen Hall," which housed besides the boys' and girls' dormitory the recitation rooms, the kitchen and the dining room. It was not long before expanding needs were met rapidly in the erec tion of a girl's dormitory, containing dining room and kitchen, to be followed by the boys' work shop, a two and a half story cement-block building, and next an office and recitation building, two and a half stories high. Such, briefly, is the story of the outward growth of the work here, but it does not take into account the untiring efforts, the broad vision, the self-sacrificing spirit, or the hopes that went into the building up of what stands as the most potent influence for the advancement of the colored people to be found in this part of the state. Without trying to follow the hundreds who have themselves become educators as they have gone forth from this college we have right before us in Austin some samples of our work. For example, the principal of the city colored high school is a Tillotson gradLate, the teacher of domestic science, the teacher of manual training, and many of the grade teachers are from Tillotson. And in the schools of San Antonio likewise and Houston are graduate educators and teachers former students of Tillotson. In Austin, there is a state institution for deaf, dumb, and blind colored children. Four of its principal teachers are graduates of this college. This for illustration of what may be found in different sections of the state. But large as the work is that has been done here in the past, a larger work is the promise of the years to come. No one questions the quality of the work done at Tillotson, and it is even conceded to be higher than that done at most of the other schools, but as it has not state recognition the graduates cannot receive state certificates. However, the state Board of Education plans to incorporate at least five more such schools in the state, and as Tillotson has the required courses of study, the required equipment, and can easily qualify in the amount and quality of the work done we are going after that state incorporation and expect it. Our enrollment of boarding students this year is at least fifty per cent higher than it was at this time last year, due in large measure to improved living conditions in the girls' dormitory. Tillotson was planned with large. things in view. The location of its. twenty acre campus outside of the state university, the finest of any school in the city, its working plant. of four substantial buildings, its equipment in school rooms and shop rooms all await the larger fulfillment of the hope of its founder and the expectations of its friends. FROM BALLARD NORMAL SCHOOL, MACON, GEORGIA HE principal says, "We discovered toward the end of the last school year that Ballard faced a considerable deficit due to the soaring prices of practically every item the school had to purchase. I called quite a number of our local colored citizens and the situation was frankly discussed. They determined at that meeting that Ballard School must close her doors in May without owing a single penny. They realized that the American Missionary Association had already done more for Ballard Normal financially than ever before, and that the budget for this school was entirely exhausted. "Thereupon, they said 'We colored people of Macon will see to it that Ballard School closes without any indebtedness whatever.' "It is a great satisfaction to know that "our folks" did just what they agreed to do, and about $500 were raised for Ballard in a very short time, and practically all of this came in small amounts from a very large number of givers. "It is also worthy of note that we have an increase of some twenty students this fall over our October enrollment of last year, making a total of 310 to this date. It is also а source of great satisfaction to know that we have fewer changes in |