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loved them, and longed to win them for Jesus.

Only Indian girls are members. In the time since the organization, over fifty Indian girls have been members with us. One afternoon of each week they spend with me. The President, who is always one of the girls, leads a short devotional meeting, and then the girls spend an hour or more in fancy-work while I read to them. Our meetings are both helpful and enjoyable.

What can I say of these Indian girls to tell my brothers and sisters in the States how precious they are, how willing, how loving, how capable, and how when the Lord looks upon them He loves them? The readers of the HOME MISSION MONTHLY have been learning something of the work among the Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, and others of the tribes known as blanket Indians, whose reservations are in the western part of the Territory.

Many of the people who live at a distance from us believe all Indians to be uncivilized, and

but few of them have had much chance to attend school. Many of the older Indians among the fullbloods have not learned to talk English, but almost all of the children are being taught to speak our language. Most of our girls do their own sewing, and they are very neat, very tasty, and often quite proficient, and would put to shame the white girls in many of our homes.

The question as to where they have

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"INDIAN HELPERS" SOCIETY, KING'S DAUGHTERS, INDIAN UNIVERSITY.

during our vacation trips North we are often asked questions about the people here, which show how little is known about the civilized Indians. An Indian wrapped in a blanket, decorated with paint and feathers, would be almost as strange a sight to the boys and girls of our school as to the white child in the cultured city home.

During the six years that I have been here, we have had students from the Cherokees, Delawares, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, Miamis, Kiowas, and Little Lake tribe (California). We find them intelligent, most of them speaking English, though

learned these things, I cannot answer; but I do know that there is a power for good in the Indian boys and girls of this Territory if they can be given opportunity for self-culture and development. They need our prayers; they need and deserve our help.

What better plea could we make for the work among the blanket Indians, than to tell about the Christian boys and girls of Indian University, for what Christian teaching is doing to civilize these, it will do for others? Do not forget the Indians in your prayers and in your gifts.

MRS. C. H. MAXSON.

Meetings at Shaw University.

For ten days religious meetings have been held in the University chapel from half-past six oclock P.M., for one hour, supplemented by private meetings at the ladies' mission. ary rooms, and at the Young Men's Christian Association's room. Great interest is being manifested by the unsaved, and a spiritual quickening has come upon all the departments of the school.

In the medical department all have come out for Christ Jesus but three, two of whom have manifested a deep interest in their soul's salvation.

In the college proper only one is unsaved; in the Normal, three; and in the whole University, of something over three hundred souls, all but eight are professed Christians.

It has been observed that religion is of a deeper, more practical, every-day heart re ligion among us here and the colored folks generally than it used to be. If this growth in the faith continues, and if in all the schools for Negroes in the South there can be this hungering and thirsting after the eternal inspiring principles of the true Christ-spirit on the part of faculty and students as has seemed to manifest itself at Shaw University, there must surely be a future in the life of the new Negro when piety and godly liv ing will characterize more of their lives.

We have been praying for the salvation of our University and of the unsaved here. God has answered our prayers in some perceptible measure. Oh, may the spirit of the true missionary always obtain at Shaw University. A LABORER.- The Gazette.

CHURCH EDIFICE DEPT.

Capital City of South Dakota.

Dear Bro. :-This letter was to accompany my quarterly report, but failed to get into the same envelope. We were all made happy this quarter by the arrival of the $500 from the Gift Fund. This enabled us to so complete the audience-room of our new chapel as to make it the best in the town, seating about three hundred. We hope to dedicate it during the meeting of the Central Association. Rev. O. A. Williams, District Secretary, has promised to preach the sermon on that occasion. Our State Superintendent of Missions, Dr.

Shanafelt, was with us one Sunday, and expressed his satisfaction for our success in getting so much church for so little money -about $3,700 besides lots and furnishings. One year ago your missionary came on the field and preached in the rough board shanty where the church had worshiped and held Sunday-school for several years. Hard times and other unsolved problems stared us in the face. By faith and patient endurance and untold sacrifice on the part of the church and their friends, and by the timely encouragement of the Home Mission Board, we have providentially accumulated a property valued at about $5,500, with only a debt on it of $1,300. This debt is partly on a valuable lot near the Episcopal Church, which in course of time we hope to realize enough from to clear off all debts, and then press forward toward the prize of the high calling of self-support of church and pastor. We consider that self-support is in order before a parsonage or a pipe-organ. Your missionary's wife goes without a new spring cloak, and puts the money into a good curtain-front of the baptistery, and her husband wears his old overcoat to enable him. to pay for the water-heater for the baptistery, so that we can get right at the business for which a Baptist Church exists.

My report of visitations seems small this quarter, owing partly to a frozen ear, which threatened at one time a disfigurement for life, but other lines of work have not suffered.

Six have been received by letter and several are awaiting baptism. Our congregations are increasing some, and we hold all we gain. We have not been conveniently fitted up for any special meetings yet, but hope to get about it soon.

We shall be late a few Sundays in observing chapel-day, but there will go a contribution to the Chapel Fund from here for many a year to come, we trust.

D. C. SMITH,

Missionary Pastor, Pierre, S. D.

Who Will Lend a Hand?

We need money to build chapels, and $300 will often encourage and enable a feeble church to provide a comfortable Sabbath home.

Women's Societies.

WOMEN'S

BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCI. ETY OF DAYTON ASSOCIATION, OHIO. President-MRS. T. J. KIRKPATRICK, Springfield. VicePresident-MRS. E. W. LOUNSBURY, Dayton Recording Secretary-MISS S. WILLIAMSON, Piqua. Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer-MRS. E. F. SAMPLE, Dayton, O. Chairman of Programme Committee-MRS. JULIA S. GUY, Springfield.

The annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society of Dayton Association was held with the First Baptist Church, Dayton, March 15. A goodly number of delegates were present at rollcall. The spirit of the meeting was excellent throughout. Last moments were spent in hearing from several of the life and work of our lamented Dr. A. J. Gordon, whose influence has been and will continue to be most helpful in the building of Christian character. During the past fifteen months the Society has been interested in the Elk Creek mission for the Kiowa Indians. At the December quarterly, 1893, the Society pledged $300 to be raised by March, 1895. Reports show an excess of $42.64. Mrs. A. E. Stevens, of Dayton, proposed to add to the pledge $100, which makes a total for Elk Creek of $442.64. Valuation of boxes, Ministers' Home at Fenton, Michigan, Atlanta Seminary, and other objects, from the circles and young peoples for Home Missions, from March, 1894, to March, 1895, aggregates $1,490.70—total, $1,933.34. The foreign missions' receipts exceeded anything ever before reported from this Society. The meeting was one of much rejoicing and thanksgiving, considering the depressed times. The Society accepts the suggestion to stay by the parsonage and grounds at Elk Creek until all are in comfortable living condition.

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SERMONS AND LIFE SKETCH OF B. H. CARROLL, D.D. Compiled by Rev. J. B. Cranfill, Waco, Texas. American Baptist Publication Society. This volume of sermons by the most eminent Baptist preacher in Texas, and one of the most eminent in the South, is well worth reading. Dr. Carroll is a man of studious habits, of intense earnestness, and his sermons are plain, simple, direct, and forceful; whether one accepts all the views expressed by him or not, he will derive profit from reading his sermons. Dr. Cranfill has rendered valuable service by the preparation of this volume.

We hardly know what to make of Dr. Cranfill's statement concerning Dr. Carroll, that "He is an omnivorous reader, having averaged two hundred and fifty pages a day for thirty-five years; the remarkable thing about his reading, moreover, is that he remembers what he reads."

SENATOR INTRIGUE AND INSPECTOR NOSEBY. A Tale of Spoils. By Frances Campbell Sparhawk. Red-Letter Publishing Company, Boston. Price, $1.00.

The author of this little volume is well-known for her practical interest in the elevation of the Indian, a work in which she has labored very efficiently, and to which she continues to give much time and thought. Like many another worker in this very interesting field, she has been painfully impressed with the evils of the "spoils" system, as evinced in the Indian service, and in this simple, but realistic story, offers to the uninitiated a glimpse behind the scenes, which reveals a little of the indefensible system that the patriotic people of the country should rise up against and do away with. The more there is known about it the better, especially in this field, from which political influence should be utterly banished; and if this little volume can in some degree help to bring about this result-the aim with which it was written the friends of the Indian will owe it a debt of gratitude, and the author may feel that she has added another to her many successful works in this direction.

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W. S. Gee,

W. H. Shank,

J. M. Whitehead,

Scandinavians, Chicago, Ill.,

Nampa and Boise Valley, Idaho,
Salem Swedish Church, Chicago, Ill.
Centerville, So. Dak.,

Scandinavians, Tacoma, Wash.,
Third Church, Portland, Ore,

Claremore and Catoosa, Ind. Ter.,
District Missionary for Kansas,
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Chow Wing, Chinese Evangelist, California.

Frank Howes, Harrington and Caniden, Del.

B. J. Savage, Milford, Del.

Richard B. Cook, New Castle, Del.

Henry B. Jones, Eighth Street (Colored) Church, Wilming

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Robert Owen, Bartlesville, Ind. Ter.

Jehu Hogan, Fairland and Hudson Creek, Ind. Ter.

James F. Hampton. Eufaula, and District Missionary for
Muskogee Nation, Ind. Ter.

Daniel Le Claire, French, Fall River, Mass.

F. X Smith, French, Fall River, Mass.

T. Armendariz, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
M. A. Villarreal, Sabinas Hidalgo, Mexico.

J. F. Kimball, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

L. M. Stolberg, District Missionary for Swedes in North-
western Minnesota.

Aug. A. Holmgren, Swedes, Burchard and Lake Sarah,
Minn.

W. E. Zediker, University Place, Neb.

W. A. Simmons, Perry, Okla. Ter.

John R. Wilson, student missionary work among the
Colored People in South Carolina.

Miss Willie V. McAvoy, student missionary work among the
Colored People in South Carolina.

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Colored People in South Carolina.

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August Kludt, Germans, Yankton and Scotland, So. Dak.
Johann Marks, Germans, Hebron, No. Dak.

E. H. E. Jameson, D.D., District Missionary for the
"Lake District."

The following appointment of a teacher was made:
Redlands, Cal., Chinese Mission School Miss Lizzie
Thompson.

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