ll of
presents. All had a good meal, except plates, which some were not very
familiar with. A crowd of big men reached out eagerly for the luxury of
red apples.

[Illustration: MEETING HOUSE. DWELLING.

MOODY STATION, NO. 1 (INDEPENDENCE).]

This station is named for Mr. Moody, who gave money to start it. The
place is a hill in the midst of a valley independent of the bluffs on
either side and so Awatahesh--Independence.

Mr. A. P. Nichols, of Haverhill, Mass., kindly offered $200 if we would
reopen the station. We have done so, trusting to our friends for $300
more for the year. The work is yet in the dough, but the yeast is in and
it is rising.

Our Elbowoods station began far out in the wilderness in a log house
like the Independence meeting-house. The Government, after several
years, planted its central agency by our station and so brought many
under our influence. Now we have a new dwelling, with a chapel attached,
and the congregation have raised $130 toward the expense.

[Illustration: DWELLING. CHAPEL.

MOODY STATION, NO. 2 (ELBOWOODS).]

These stations are the spokes of which the Fort Berthold
boarding-school and hospital and church work are the hub. Every hub must
have spokes--as here. If you rim the whole with some of your silver or
gold, and bolt it on with prayer the whole work will roll on.

Di tapi'o? Indians, and whites too, some gladly others uneasily, are
finding out who we are--you dear friends of the churches and we here
together--a power for righteousness from and by the King.

THANKSGIVING DAY.--Rev. C. L. Hall gives us the following
interesting glimpse of Thanksgiving in a prairie mission school:

"We are to have a church dinner on Thanksgiving (Shak-s-shte-hun), for
which the church have collected produce and money, so that there will be
a large thank offering to the Lord, all paid up, not subscribed. Mrs.
Black Rabbit and Mrs. Crow and Mrs. Two Bears and Cedar Woman are on the
committee to help cook and prepare dinner. There are rabbits and geese
and beef to cook, which is cooked and which cook you can decide.

Clear moonlight on the snow, mild but no thaw, fine sledding. It was a
good night to come home from prayer meeting at Deacon Many-bears."

BUSY DAY OF AN INDIAN MISSIONARY.--Rev. Myron Eells, our
missionary at S'kokomish, Washington, writes:

"Last Sabbath my work was as follows, though it was a little extra:
Superintended the Sunday-school at the Agency at 9:30; 57 p