d helped us'?

"Finding it is best for myself to 'strike while the iron is hot,' I sit
down at once to send you a check. The signal mercy of the Lord enables
me to make my offering of dollars instead of cents, and has put so many
benefits already into the fraction of the current year that it may be
reckoned as a complete year. How small an acknowledgment does even a
dollar seem for a year of life, with all its escapes from peril and all
its experience of good! What a refreshing addition to the resources of
the church would result if each professing Christian would give such a
birthday offering of one cent for each year of life! May the Lord fill
us all with the spirit of him who gave himself unto the death for us.

"I pray earnestly that the American Missionary Association may continue
to enlarge, and its work to prosper."

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NOTES BY THE WAY.

BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.

White Men and Red Men.

"THE ROUND UP!
INTERESTING HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES LAST NIGHT."

The above was the characteristic heading in a Dakota paper of an
editorial notice of the closing exercises of their High School.
Everything takes its color from the peculiar condition of society. A
rubber overcoat is a "slicker," and a native pony is a "broncho." Not so
inappropriate, either, is the term "The Round Up," for the closing
exercises of a school year. It ought to be the round up, a complete
circle or sphere of successful work and accomplishment, so far as that
period of school-life is concerned. The white men of Dakota are changing
perceptibly, I think, in their feelings toward the red men among them,
or among whom they are. A sense of responsibility for their
Christianization seems to have taken possession of the minds of the
intelligent Christian people. One is impressed with the abundance of
church buildings in these small white settlements. In one small village
of perhaps five hundred people, I counted eight Protestant churches.
With Christian churches so numerously planted as they are in these new
Western States, we may hope for large help from them in the Indian work
of the Association, before many years. They are now falling into line in
this great work. I rode on one side of the Missouri River for many miles
among the white settlements. Afterwards I rode on the other side of the
river a long distance among the Indian villages, and could not help but
contrast the condition of l