use that
may happen to be nearest.

5. The Government should adopt a liberal policy in regard to the use of
the vernacular in the Indian schools. We are all agreed that the English
language should be brought into use among the Indians at the earliest
practicable period. But the experience of all the past, in Indian
civilization among the ruder tribes, has shown that Christian influences
have been most successfully brought to bear by the use of the
vernacular, in giving them the knowledge of the Word of God, in teaching
them a practical morality, and in preparing them for civilized life. We
ask, therefore, that no restrictions be placed upon Christian people in
their efforts for this great object.

6. We ask that the Government exercise an absolute impartiality in
dealing with the different denominations of Christians, in the
distribution of appropriations, in the granting of lands for missionary
uses, and in the appointment of officers, agents, teachers and employes.
We ask no favors in these respects, and we desire that none shall be
granted to others.

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NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.

BY REV C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.

"_Miss_ ----:

"DEAR MADAM: I understand you have got the school, but I can't possibly
board you, as social equality is not custom in this country. I don't
think it would be pleasant for you nor for us, either. I wrote this in
order for you to look out some other place. You need not depend on
getting board with us.

"FEBRUARY 2, 1889."

This letter was written to a cultivated Northern young lady who had
graduated at one of the best high schools in the country and held a
special recommendation, besides her diploma, on account of her
excellency as a student and practice teacher. She went South to help
these people in their great need. It was for Christ's sake and in "His
name" that she entered this field. She secured board of a white family,
but when they learned that she was going to teach the blacks and seek to
lead them to Christ, this letter was sent her. Every door was closed
against this Christian woman because she was trying to save the poor and
ignorant! And it is eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of the Christian
era and in free America!

But this plucky Yankee girl did not so give up her school. She found a
boarding place in the home of one of our missionaries, two miles away,
and she tramps across these two miles twice a day, patiently putti