lias was. The house is too little.

We are not "lazy, good-for-nothing Indians, fit only for the soldiers'
target." We are men and women struggling against clannishness and
superstition--against evil without and within--reaching up to you who know
the blessedness of the Light of the Gospel, asking you to reach down, down
into our dark lives and lift us up. Let us get a glimpse on this side of
the beauties of Heaven.

We need your help, and bye and bye we will join your forces and help you
to gather with God's fold other tribes and nations who know not God. Do
not cut us down this spring. It will break our hearts with discouragement.

God help people to hear our prayer. We shake hands with God's people in
the name of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

P.S.--Three of the people outside the church in this village have given me
their names as candidates for church membership at the May communion.

CROW AGENCY, MONTANA.--The growth of the missionary work among the Indians
at the Crow Agency, Montana, is very encouraging. Recent reports from this
field bring information of large gatherings in the religious services, and
in the church services and Sunday-school. Our missionary, Rev. J. G.
Burgess, is planning to spend several weeks this summer among the camps on
the prairies to which the Indians withdraw during the warmer months. A
chapel is very much needed at this mission in order to afford a place for
religious gatherings and such instruction as the missionary and his wife
are able to give these Indians. This mission of the American Missionary
Association is the only Protestant mission among the entire Crow tribe.

THE CHINESE.

THE OROVILLE MISSION.

BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.

[Illustration: New Years Cake.]

New Years Cake.

The cake of which we give a picture is more than a monument to the
artistic cookery of which some of our brethren there are capable. It was
made in a sort of Christian competition with the rude and senseless
operations by which their idol-worshiping countrymen observed their great
annual festival. And on Salvation Army principles, though not after their
methods, it called the attention of multitudes both of Chinese and
Americans to the Mission House and the Mission work and the Saviour for
whom our brethren were eager to bear witness. They did not confine their
attention to cake-making nor express their loyalty to Christ in tha