“Our year’s work was quite profitable. We had at first nineteen members. Our work was to bring young men to our meetings, and we appointed four for that special work, though it is the work of us all. We appointed four others to go in different homes and have prayer with those who are not church members; four to visit the sick and find out needs, to help them. Our contribution was rather small, though it is the best we can do; this year $43.16. Out of that, $25.80 goes to help our native missionary account; the remainder is for helping delegates to different meetings. There were twenty-five new members this year, most all associate members, leaving only fourteen active members, but God has blessed us in many ways.”

In conclusion, I think I speak the minds of all the teachers at Oahe, at Fort Berthold and at Santee, when I say we feel much encouraged in this our work for the Dakotas and other Indians. God does bless our efforts, and the hearts of the young are being won to his service. We know it is your work, too. We ask you still to strengthen our hands and hearts in the future. We need your interest and your prayers. We need your hearts with us constantly, that we may be able to do better and greater things. It is a privilege to try to teach those committed to our care, of the love of God and Jesus, which has existed so long for them, even as it has for us. It is a privilege, in place of their fear and worship of all nature, to tell them of the tender love and care of a Heavenly Father. It is a privilege to see the faces brighten and show the peace of God, because their hungry, fainting, souls have found the Master. There may be self-denial in a life among them; but in working for the elevation of a people like this, not simply to be our servants and forever the weaker race, but with an aim to bring them to stand on a level, to be Christian men and women, able to fight the battle of life with a pure faith in the one God and Saviour of us all, is something worthy of self-denial.

RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1886.

MAINE, $162.00.
Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc.$15.00
Augusta. Sab. Sch. Class, for Student Aid, Straight U.2.00
Bangor. Mrs. Walter Brown10.00
Casco. “A Lady,” by Mrs. Richard Mayberry1.00
Hermon. L. J. Peabody, for Marie AdlofSch’p Fund1.00
Machias. “A Friend.”5.00
Portland. State St. Ch. and Soc.100.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.18.00
Wells. Mission Circle of Second Cong. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.10.00
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $423.73.
Amherst. Cong. Ch.4.50
Atkinson. Joseph Grover8.00
Atkinson. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Rosebud Indian M.5.10
Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.50
East Derry. First Ch. and Soc.1.71
Greenland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.24.00
Greenville. Isaiah Wheeler, 100; Cong. Ch., 8.72108.72
Harrisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.5.50
Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch.17.70
Lebanon. C. M. Baxter, for Woman’sWork65.00
Mason. Ladies, for Freight2.61
Milford. First Cong. Ch., to const. MissChristiana Moore, Miss Alice M.Farnsworth and Mrs. Lizzie R. Howard,L. M’s127.83
Nelson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.50
Peterboro. Mrs. M. A. and Miss M. D. Whitney4.00
Rindge. Cong. Ch.3.51
Sullivan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.7.55
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$399.73
LEGACIES.
Concord. Estate of George B. Woodward14.00
New Ipswich. Estate of Wm. D. Locke, by A. N. Townsend, Agt.10.00
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$423.73
VERMONT, $244.07.
Barton. “A Friend,” to const. Guy Robert Varnum, L. M.30.00
Bethel. Y. P. S. C. E. Missionary Gardens, for Indian M.2.70
Brattleboro. Central Cong. Ch.103.40
Brattleboro. Mrs. F. C. Rice, for Student Aid, Talladega C.2.88
Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.19.75
Coventry. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.62
East Hardwick. Ladies’ Aid Soc., Bbl. ofC., for Tougaloo U; 1.35 for Freight1.35
Essex Junction. Ladies of Cong. Ch., forMcIntosh, Ga.7.25
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.4.12
Saint Albans. H. E. Seymour5.00
Saint Johnsbury. South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.38.25
Springfield. Ladies’ Soc., Bbl. of C., etc., for Macon, Ga.
Waitsfield. Ladies, by Mrs. S. A. Bigelow, for McIntosh, Ga. 4.75
Woodstock. Ladies, for McIntosh, Ga., by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks14.00
MASSACHUSETTS, $4,762.81.
Ashburnham. C. G. Noyes10.00
Boston. Mrs. E. P. Eayers, 5; “A Friend,”Carpet, val., 50, for Room 21 Cong. House,—Dorchester.“Friend,” for Indian M.,46.07.—Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. and Soc.93.50.—Roxbury. Immanuel Cong. Sab.Sch., for Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund, 75219.57
Boxboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc.15.00
Boxboro. Grace Dustan, for Marie AdlofSch’p Fund0.40
Brockton. “Friend,” for Santee Indian M.65.68
Brockton. Mrs. Mary E. Perkins5.00
Cambridge. Miss Mary E. Marrett’s Sab.Sch. Class, First Cong. Ch., for StudentAid, Fisk U.10.00
Cambridge. Mrs. J. Russell Bradford5.00
Campello. South Cong. Ch.100.00
Charlton. “A Friend”3.00
Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. adl.10.00
Chicopee Falls. “A Friend,” by Rev. R. P. Hibbard, for Tougaloo Miss.10.00
Concord. Trinitarian Cong. Ch.33.09
Cummington. Mrs. H. M. Porter, 2 Pkgs Patchwork, for Macon, Ga.
Danvers. Maple St. Ch. (36 of which for Charleston, S.C.)115.71
Danvers. First Cong. Ch., to const. Elbridge A. Guilford, Moses Chapman and Mrs. Nancy Morrison, L. M’s.93.77
Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.166.00
Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.6.00
Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.56.69
Enfield. Edward Smith.500.00
Erving. Cong. Ch. and Soc.6.00
Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.75
Fitchburg. Dea. Holton, for Student Aid, Straight U.15.00
Freetown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.14.70
Gardner. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., by Mrs. F. H. Whittemore, for Indian M.50.00
Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch.111.32
Greenwich. Daniel Parker, deceased, by Mrs. M. P. Estez.5.00
Hanover. Second Ch. and Soc.10.00
Hatfield. Cong Ch. and Soc., to const.David Billings, Jr., and Mrs. Isabella L. Dwight L. M’s.66.16
Haverhill. Mrs. E. G. Wood, for Freight.2.00
Haverhill. Nettie L Webster, for Rosebud Indian M.0.30
Holliston. “Friends,” 14.63; Class of Young Men Cong. Sab. Sch., 6; “Friends,” 2; “Friends,” Straw Matting and Oil Cloth, for Student Aid, Talladega C.22.63
Hyannis Port. Dr. J. H. Wright, for Student Aid, Straight U.5.00
Hyde Park. Ladies’ Missionary Soc., byMrs. M. G. Bunton, for Woman’s Work.25.00
Melrose. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc.64.09
Merrimac. John K. Sargent.2.00
Methuen. First Cong. Ch.27.45
Millis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.8.03
Milton. “A Friend’s Mite Box”.2.20
Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.50.00
Newburyport. Prospect St. Cong. Ch.90.60
Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.31.26
Newton. Eliot Ch., for Santee Indian M.75.00
Newton. Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc. Box of C., etc., for Macon, Ga., 1 for Freight.1.00
Newton Center. First Cong. Sab. Sch., special gift for Oahe Indian M.15.00
North Billerica. Mrs. E. R. Gould, for Rutland Sewing Sch.3.00
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., for Pleasant Hill.14.50
North Weymouth. Old South Ch., 11.25; Pilgrim Ch., 8.77, for Student Aid, Straight U.20.02
Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch.57.00
Oxford. Woman’s Miss’y Soc., by Miss L. D. Stockwell, Treas.7.70
Pepperell. Dea. G. Blake, 10; Miss S. J. Miller, 2, for Student Aid, Dudley, N.C.12.00
Reading. Woman’s M. Soc., Bbl. of C., for Tougaloo U.; Eliza A. White, 1.25 for Freight.1.25
Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc.142.29
Salem. Crombie St. Ch. and Soc.45.00
Somerville. Franklin St. Ch., for Santee Indian M.45.35
South Attleboro. Mrs. H. L. Draper, Bbl. of C., for Grand View, Tenn.
Springfield. South Cong. Ch., for Indian M.10.00
Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, for Indian M.30.00
Taunton. Broadway Cong. Sab. Sch., for Rosebud Indian M.25.00
Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.28.01
Westboro. “A Friend”.2.00
West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.26
Williamstown. South Ch.13.79
Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch.23.62
Winchester. Cong. Ch., for Pleasant Hill.50.00
Woburn. Daniel Richardson.1,000.00
Woburn. Ladies’ Charitable Reading Soc., for Freight.1.35
Worcester. Piedmont Ch., 276.47; Piedmont Sab. Sch., 25, for Indian M.301.49
Worcester. Piedmont Sab. Sch., for Atlanta Students in Sch. of Theology, Hartford, Ct.50.00
Worcester. Plymouth Ch. (10 of which for Indian M.)80.00
Worcester. Salem St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U.9.00
Worcester. Old South Ch. M. C. Coll.7.00
By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass’n.
Chester. Center2.00
Chicopee. Second56.90
Monson40.88
Springfield. South, for Debt5.00
West Springfield. First27.00
West Springfield. Park St., Mrs. H. A. Southworth20.00
151.78
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$4,262.81