—The Superintendent of the Indian School at Caddo recently prepared a concert exercise with an illuminated Jacob’s Ladder. The sides and steps were covered with tissue paper of different colors. On each step were five wax tapers which lighted up cornucopias filled with candies. A lecture was given on Jacob’s Dream, accompanied with appropriate music, etc. Over 80 Indian children were in attendance. The occasion is said to have been a grand and beautiful one, cheering beyond thought to the heart of the Christian workers.
—Rev. S. G. Wright, of Leech Lake, Minn., writes: Our school was a real success. Several of our scholars began a life of prayer during the winter, and all were much improved. The Christian women who were converted when we were here before still regularly sustain a prayer meeting. We have just buried one of our staunch Christian men. His daily life in all places was a living testimony to the power of the Gospel to save even this poor despised people. In his long sickness of five months he exemplified the patience of the Gospel.
—Tindestak, Alaska, is a Chilcat village of 16 houses and 162 people. Each of the houses cost the Indian owners over a thousand dollars. Their desire, however, for the Gospel was so great that the whole population left the village last October and moved to the new mission station at Willard that they might have school and church privileges.
THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., Field Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.
AFTER THE SOWING, THE REAPING.
BY SUPERINTENDENT ROY.
It was at Athens, Ga., a city whose classical name has had associated with it the University of the State. Sixty-five years ago, my father’s pastor at Basking Ridge, N.J., Dr. Robert Finley, left there a church of 600 members and an academy in which he had trained Theodore Frelinghuysen, Senator Dayton and other such men, to come and serve a church of only a score of members, and the University as its President. I look up here his sepulchre and learn of the savor of his godly influence.