1901

FROM TEXAS.

Our country and the world knows the story of the floods and storms that have swept over Texas, from north to south, during the past six months. The Galveston horror and the path of the hurricane for miles inland—almost to Austin—are fresh in the minds of men. Who can tell what the loss of their all means to the poor Negroes ? We shall hear many a sad tale. And yet the patience and hope of this people are wonderful!

"Cotton is king!" and just now he bids old and young gather the snowy mass from the open bolls. For Tillotson, this means a small school at present, but the reasonable expectation that soon there will be plenty of students with some money to pay toward their year's expenses.

Illustrating one of the ways that Tillotson helps up and on: The pastor of the A. M. E. Church in Austin desired some months ago to start a Christian Endeavor Society and consulted Tillotson students, members of his church. The society was formed with a Tillotson man as president, and with others of that same good school to assist. It has grown in favor and influence, now numbering about eightyfive members. L. W. G.

The American missionary‎

by American Missionary Association, Congregational Home Missionary Society - 1901

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