this active society
of earnest young people be interested in the great work that is
being accomplished among other young people, painfully in want of
the advantages which those here enjoy? A prayer meeting pledge of the
Y.P.S.C.E., printed in the Sioux language by Indian boys at a Santee
school, is a most interesting evidence that this society is not
confined in its usefulness to any locality or race. A vigorous Society
is one of the elements of work in this Indian school, and a most
useful element. In a letter written by an Indian boy is the following:
"We have a Christian Endeavor Society here. I joined that society not
very long ago, and we have nice meetings on Saturday night. It does
make me feel good in those meetings. There are about thirty members
now." And so these Societies of New England in their prayers for, and
contributions to, the work of the American Missionary Association,
are clasping hands with the same societies among the Negroes, Mountain
people and Indians.

The "King's Daughters" are also a useful agency in the field work
of our Association. A little Indian girl writes interestingly of the
"King's Daughters" of whom she is one.

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DEATH OF SUPERINTENDENT HALL.

Just as we are going to press, (October 18th), we are startled by the
telegraphic announcement of the sudden death from typhoid fever of
Prof. Edward S. Hall, one of our Field Superintendents. Mr. Hall had
been one year in the service of the Association, and had already shown
himself to be a man of varied and remarkable capabilities--not only
skilled in the management of schools, but familiar in an unusual
degree with the practical work of building and repairing school and
church edifices. His services have been invaluable to the Association,
and it will be difficult to supply his place. As a man of noble
Christian character and consecration to the work entrusted to him, he
had won our highest esteem.

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DEATH OF LARMON B. LANE, M.D.

Rev. Larmon B. Lane, M.D., died at his home in St. Charles, Ill.,
Sept. 15, 1889. He was born in Tallmadge, Ohio, June 21, 1821. He
studied medicine at Cleveland Medical College, and afterward attended
Oberlin College and Theological Seminary, graduating in 1848. The
following year he was sent by the American Missionary Association as
missionary physician to Siam, where he labored faithfully, ministering
to soul and body