Di tapi'o? Indians, and whites too, some gladly others uneasily, are finding out who we are—you dear friends of the churches and we here together—a power for righteousness from and by the King.
Thanksgiving Day.—Rev. C. L. Hall gives us the following interesting glimpse of Thanksgiving in a prairie mission school:
"We are to have a church dinner on Thanksgiving (Shak-s-shte-hun), for which the church have collected produce and money, so that there will be a large thank offering to the Lord, all paid up, not subscribed. Mrs. Black Rabbit and Mrs. Crow and Mrs. Two Bears and Cedar Woman are on the committee to help cook and prepare dinner. There are rabbits and geese and beef to cook, which is cooked and which cook you can decide.
Clear moonlight on the snow, mild but no thaw, fine sledding. It was a good night to come home from prayer meeting at Deacon Many-bears."
Busy Day of an Indian Missionary.—Rev. Myron Eells, our missionary at S'kokomish, Washington, writes:
"Last Sabbath my work was as follows, though it was a little extra: Superintended the Sunday-school at the Agency at 9:30; 57 present. Taught a Sunday-school class. Preached at the same place at 11, then was on my horse in a few minutes, and at 12:05 was a mile distant and preached to the Indians. Then rode four miles to John's Creek and preached to a small congregation of whites in English at 3:00 p.m., eating my lunch as I rode along. Came home by six o'clock, and at seven o'clock went in for half an hour to the Christian Endeavor meeting."
A Thank Offering.—Miss Collins, of Fort Yates, N. D., in writing of the Indian work at her mission, says: