the East for some weeks presenting the
Indian work to the churches, Christian Endeavor Societies and women's
missionary societies. Her work was confined to New England. She remained
as long as it seemed wise for her to be absent from the pressing duties of
her mission, to which she has now returned.

The following letter was recently received from her.

"IN THE LAND OF THE DAKOTAS,
LITTLE EAGLE'S VILLAGE, March 25, 1895.

"During the past week I have been twice down the river to Flying
By's Village to attend their mid-week prayer meeting and Sunday
morning service, and also to the Agency. My people seem to be
active and earnest. Some of them are thinking they had better
enlarge the little building they put up last year. A number of the
people there are learning, teaching each other to read; and they
are asking for a women's missionary society to be formed there.
Catch-the-Enemy, who is active in the young men's society, said to
me the other day that there were fifteen members at Flying By's
Village. Their quarterly dues are ten cents, but the others have
nothing with which to pay, and so he paid them all.

"David, dear, good, gentle David, was here to-day from Thunder
Hawk's. I judge that he is getting on well there. As a teacher, I
think he can not but be a success, he is so gentle, patient and
good, and bright, too. A week ago we had a pleasant little visit
from Mr. Reed over Sunday."

From this letter it will be seen that large opportunities are opening at
this Indian mission, and most hopeful results are already being gathered.
The Christian Indians are more and more realizing their own responsibility
for carrying on Christian work, and are meeting it bravely. They are also
responding to appeals for gifts to missionary work outside of their own
tribes with self-sacrificing devotion. The collection of the Pilgrim
Church at Santee, mentioned in the April magazine, increased to $241. This
was to meet the debt on the treasury of the American Missionary
Association.

Miss Collins, so well known to our readers, is now in the East in behalf
of these needy Indian missions. Before leaving the prairies, she visited
Oahe and Santee, and various missions aside from her own, that she might
have the most recent information of the whole field. The object of her
coming is to give the inf