Our grain is not all threshed yet. From present indications it will reach about 28,000 bushels wheat and 10,000 bushels oats; potatoes, corn, etc., in abundance. I cut down the estimate on flour for this season 25,000 lbs. The Indians now furnish about 70 per cent. of what they eat.
My next step will be to introduce stock raising, by procuring cows and calves for this people.
Washington Territory.—Hon. John McReavy has fitted up a hall at Union City for church purposes, and the people have procured an organ and bell for the same object.
The Clallam Indians at Jamestown, near Dunginess, Washington Territory, have bought a bell for their church, the first church bell in their county, although it has been settled more than twenty years, and has a white population of over five hundred and fifty.
The members of the church at Seabeck, at the close of the services on the first Sabbath in December, presented their pastor, Rev. M. Eells, with a purse containing forty dollars and fifty cents; and the ladies of the place who are not members of the church, presented his wife on Christmas with a box containing articles of clothing worth about thirty dollars.
Two persons at Jamestown were received into our church in December, and two more at S’kokomish in January, all on profession of faith.
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Washington, D. C.—The Memorial Church, recently known as the Lincoln Mission, has, as noted in the last Missionary, just blossomed into a church, and begins its life as such in a renovated hall on the corner of Eleventh and R streets. The A. M. A. and the trustees of the Mission decided last fall that the building must be repaired, and the work was so far completed that it was occupied again by the church on the first Sabbath of the new year. The room will seat about 800 people, and with the expenditure of $75 for matting in the aisles, would be very attractive indeed. Mrs. Babcock, city missionary, has opened industrial schools in connection with this church, both for mothers and the younger girls, and proves a great help in the spiritual work of the church.
Raleigh, N. C.—The winter has been unusually severe, and our people are so very poor and unprepared for it that the attendance at church services has been very small. A part of the time it has been so cold and muddy that it was impossible for the people to get about. The Sunday-school numbers 128.