Five years ago our Seabury Hall was burned. It was a heavy loss. We at once began a new building. We have now a noble Hall, a beautiful Chapel, one Professor's residence, a Library building, and four thousand volumes. These cost over sixty thousand dollars. It is my daily prayer that, before I am called home, I may be able to endow its professorships and a few scholarships, so that I can feel the work will go on forever. To any one who will help us, I will try to be a faithful steward, and we will

give them our gratitude, our love, and our prayers.

The Trustees of "The Bishop Seabury Mission" are eight laymen and six clergymen. The Bishop is the President. It is duly authorized to hold gifts for scholarships and endowments.

SHATTUCK SCHOOL.

In 1855, we organized Shattuck School, and placed it in charge of Rev. E. S. Thomas. In 1866, the Rev. J. L. Breck, D. D., became Rector of the School, and on his removal to California, in 1867, the Rev. James Dobbin succeeded him. Our object was to train up boys for business, or to prepare them for college. We founded a school, and not a college, because we did not believe in shams. We were too poor to found a college. We thought that the people would respect a school which taught collegiate studies, and that they would despise a college which was merely a grammar school. While England had four great Universities, America had Universities and Colleges in almost every State. We knew that the time for Christian Education was in youth. We resolved that ours should be an honest, English school, and that, if we lived, it should be for Minnesota what Eton is for England. Our Western boys came to us untrained and undisciplined. We have passed through many trials, but year by year we have made advance.

We have two large Halls, built of stone, a school building, a drill-room and gymnasium, and the most beautiful college or schoo! chapel in America. The whole cost over eighty thousand dollars. This school is situated on fifty acres of land, about one mile distant from the Divinity School. The Bishop preaches in the Memorial Chapel whenever he is at home. This beautiful Chapel was built by Mrs. H. D. Huntington, in pious memory of a dear child in Paradise. It is as beautiful as art can make it, perfect in every line and feature, a palace not built for man, but GOD. It has been a blessing of untold value to our school.

The officers of the school are:

Rev. JAMES DOBBIN, Rector.

Rev. GEORGE H. DAVIS, Professor of English Literature.

E. W. WHIPPLE, A. M., Greek.

H. E. WHITNEY, A. B., Latin and German.

W. W. CHAMPLIN, Mathematics.

Capt. J. M. LANCASTER, U. S. A., Commandant and Natural Sciences. WILLIAM SMITH, Master of Preparatory Department.

F. P. BUMP, A. B., Assistant.

T. C. HUDSON, A. B., Penmanship.

HISTORY OF THE SCHOOLS AT FARIBAULT.

It has now about one hundred pupils, and has sent out scores of young men, who are an honor to the school and a blessing to the State. It needs another building, as a home for orphans and small boys, and a gymnasium. In the education of some of the truest young men I have ever known, we have been overpaid for all our cares. None know how it gladdens a Bishop's heart to see his children taking their places in the world as true soldiers of the Cross. None can tell his sorrow when he finds the child of many prayers wandering into paths of sin. Yet these often come back, and the seed which seemed to fall on stony ground, bears fruit. A little while ago, a fine, stalwart young man, now a prominent business man in a large commercial house, said to me: “Bishop, you never thought I would make a man. I used to try you, and I know you thought I was going to the bad. You did do me good, and I can assure you that you will never have to blush that I belonged to Shattuck School." Many of our boys have taken foremost places in Eastern colleges, or in the ranks of business men.

ST. MARY'S HALL.

St. Mary's Hall was my own venture of faith. The Bishop Seabury Mis sion was too poor to undertake such an experiment. The Church could not afford to wait. I decided to open a girls' school in my own house, and to name it after her who was "blessed among women." We opened the school in 1866, under the care of Rev. L. J. Mills and Miss S. P. Darlington. Mr. Mills had been associated with Bishop Kerfoot at St. James' College, and he brought to us the traditions of that excellent school, which has received them from the best in America, Dr. Muhlenberg's, at Flushing. It has always seemed to me that GOD sent him. He only lived to work with us four months, but he left the work in the hands of one in every way fitted for it, and under whose wise care St. Mary's has become one of the best girls' schools in the country. For six years it was my home, and when it had grown so as to need all the house-room, I placed it in the care of a Board of Trustees known as "The Trustees of St. Mary's Hall." The buildings occupy a block of land one square from the Cathedral. They are spacious, comfortable, cheerful and homelike. The object of the school is to train up Christian women. We try to make reiigion a well-spring of joy, and not a thing of sadness. We aim at thorough scholarship. We believe that, with the same advantages, girls will equal boys in every department of letters. The spiritual care of the school is in the hands of the Bishop, assisted by his brother, Rev. George B. Whipple.

Miss S. P. Darlington, daughter of the late Dr. Darlington, of Pennsylvania, is the Principal, and has the entire discipline of the school. We have none but experienced teachers, and we are ready to compare our work with any school in America or Europe. We take care that the pupils have abundant exercise, and St. Mary's is a marvel of health. The present corps

of teachers consists of