sore, extreme scarcity of food in
mid-winter, savage threats and bitter insults. They were "in
journeyings often, in perils of waters, of robbers, by the heathen and
in the wilderness." All this she endured contentedly for Christ's sake
and the souls of the poor ignorant savages around for the
evangelization and salvation of the degraded Dakotas,--lost in sin.

She possessed great tact and was absolutely fearless. In 1857, during
the Inkpadoota trouble, the father of a young-Indian, who had been
wounded by the soldiers of Sherman's battery, came with his gun to the
mission house to kill her brother. Aunt Jane met him with a plate of
food for himself and an offer to send some nice dishes to the wounded
young man. This was effectual. The savage was tamed. He ate the food
and afterwards came with his son to give them thanks. Scarcely was the
prison-camp, with nearly four hundred Dakota prisoners, three-fourths
of them condemned to be hanged, established at Mankato, when Aunt Jane
and her brother came to distribute paper and pencils and some books
among them.

When their lives were imperilled, by their savage pursuers, during the
terrible massacre, Aunt Jane calmly said; "Well if they kill me, my
home is in Heaven." The churches were scattered, the work apparently
destroyed, but nothing could discourage Aunt Jane. She had, in the
midst of this great tragedy, the satisfactory knowledge that all the
Christian Sioux had continued at the risk of their own lives, steadfast
in their loyalty, and had been instrumental in saving the lives of many
whites. They had, also, influenced for good many of their own race.

III--THE CLOSING YEARS OF HER LIFE.

After that terrible massacre the way never opened for her to resume her
residence among the Dakotas; but she was given health and strength for
nineteen years more toil for the Master and her beloved Indians. Her
home was with her brother, Dr. Williamson, near St. Peter, until his
death in 1879, and she remained, in his old home several years after
his death. During this period, she accomplished much for the education
of the Indians around her and she kept up an extensive and helpful
correspondence with native Christian workers. All the time she kept up
the work of self-sacrifice for the good of others. In 1881 she met a
poor Indian woman, suffering extremely from intense cold. She slipped
off her own warm skirt and gave it to the woman. The result was a
severe illness, which cau