ended to those who would devise liberal things with a view to
special gifts for institutions of learning. The church and the
school, the missionary and the teacher must go together into this
territory. Who will place a Christian college among the mountain
whites?

We give thanks for the spared life of a trusty and consecrated worker
in this field. With the earnest prayer for means to send and employ
them, let there be joined the petition for many workers possessed of
a like spirit of earnestness and fidelity.

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REPORT ON INDIAN WORK.

BY S.B. CAPEN, ESQ., CHAIRMAN.

It is not the intention of your committee to spend more than a moment
of the time allotted to it in speaking of the details of the work of
this Association among the Indian tribes.

It is a pleasure to note in the Executive Committee's report that it
is in the fullest sympathy with the increased and increasing interest
in the solution of our Indian problem. It has more scholars under its
care than ever before, and is steadily increasing its buildings and
its facilities for doing its work. The four new stations provided for
at the Northfield gathering call especially for our gratitude. But
why enlarge upon these particulars?

The work of this Association has been spread before the Christian
world in so many reports that all know of its great success. Its
preachers and teachers, who have given their lives to this work with
such courage and devotion, are also known, and it only needs to be
said in a word, that the year that has closed and whose review is now
being taken, has been one of great blessing and power. We approve of
what it has done and we commend it for the future without reserve.

We would rather occupy our time, if we may, in looking at this whole
Indian question, hoping that we may arouse a more universal interest,
and cause, thereby, to flow into the treasury of this Society the
funds which shall enable it to enlarge and broaden its work and
hasten the complete Christianizing of our Indian tribes.

For let it be said while I have your freshest attention, that it is
the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and not education or
civilization, that is to solve this problem; and all I have to say is
to lead up to this thought. Wherever modern civilization without
religion has touched the barbarian it has been to curse him.

The blood of every American ought to tingle at the thought of the
foul stain