ghter reports
will be found than from these mountain regions.

The Indians have from the outset been the subjects of our watchful
care, and with some variation in their activity, the services among
them have brought forth some of the brightest results. Revivals during
the past year of greater power than any reported from any other part
of the field were experienced in these Indian churches.

The Chinese work on the Pacific Coast, under the admirable leadership
of Dr. Pond, has made steady progress in the conversion of souls here
and in carrying the gospel to China.

The mission in Alaska, brought to so sudden and terrible a close by
the murder of Mr. Thornton, is expected to be opened again this summer
by the return of Mr. and Mrs. Lopp to Cape Prince of Wales. With their
knowledge of the language and of the people, and with the advantages
of their past experience, we hope the mission will enter upon a new
and much more successful life than heretofore.

We invite the friends of the Association to study this work in its
variety and extent. We make no comparisons, but surely this work
touches the sympathies of the patriot and the Christian, and calls for
a steady and abundant support.

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VACATION.

We congratulate our teachers who are now returning from the South on
the vacation that awaits them in the hills and on the seashores of the
North. They have had the unbroken toil of eight or ten months in the
South, far from their homes and friends, finding little companionship
except with the pupils and their parents, sometimes ostracized and
scorned by the whites--and yet not always--for we rejoice to say that
there are many localities in the South where the work of our teachers
is appreciated and where they are themselves treated with Christian
courtesy by the whites.

We need not ask their friends at the North to welcome these returned
workers with that kindness that is restful, but we do ask that the
facts they reveal in regard to the South may be heard and heeded.
There is no set of witnesses more competent to tell of the actual
situation at the South, its home life, its industries, its struggle
with difficulties, than these same teachers. Sometimes the teachers
have been there but a short time and their labors may have been
confined to one locality, but in that narrow range their observations
among the colored people have been most minute. They have watched the
operation