Ugh Horn, Mrs. Jack Rabbit and Louisa Crow Tail. "The Sunday was a cold one, ten degrees below
zero, and some of our leading members were
camping out on their way with food supply from Minot,
sixty miles north over

a trackless waste of snow. One Monday morning Andrew Crow came
in on horseback, with the result of the previous evening's contribution. We

get little change here, so we put down the amount to

be given on paper, and settle the account as we can by exchanges or work. We
do not have many
unpaid subscriptions." Such facts as these abundantly prove that our Indian Christians are realizing the responsibility upon them to assist with their means in these great missionary movements. If all the churches in the land would give according to their ability as generously as
did this Indian church on the prairie, not one of our benevolent societies would need suffer. * * * * * THE CHINESE. * *
* * * "THE PRESENT DISTRESS." BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D. It is everywhere, and if in our little corner we feel the first

impulse to murmur, we hear, forthwith,
from the great apostle: "There hath no trial taken _you_ but such as is
common to man." And yet the trial is none the less severe, the distress is none the less intense, because it is universal. It may

be that "misery likes company," though I could never see why, but in this instance I can truly say, would that we suffered alone! I foresaw almost six months
ago that the universal stringency would bring us an empty treasury lon