e. This arrangement has given great
prominence to the so-called out-station--which is in charge of a
native preacher and his wife, both of like importance in the work, in
the heart of an Indian community, letting its light shine every day
in the year. The people are becoming more and more scattered, making
the day-school well nigh an impossibility and greatly diminishing the
attendance at all but Sunday religious meetings.

[Illustration: OUR FIRST CHAPEL, STANDING ROCK, N. D.]

It is no uncommon thing to find a family with no neighbor within a
mile. They have found it easier to haul a few loads of wood in
winter than many loads of hay 10 to 15 miles in summer. They are
living out where they can find a good range and plenty of hay for
their cattle.

In the day of villages the native preacher having his people closely
about him could have a well-attended school, where parents and
children learned to read the Word of God in their own language,
through the long evenings of the winter months.

[Illustration: SUMMER CAMP OF INDIANS.]

The compulsory attendance of all the children from 6 to 18 years of
age in school, mostly in boarding-schools, has closed the mission
_day_-school, and the native worker has become preacher and pastor
and no longer a school teacher. Ten years ago the work of our native
workers could be closely planned by the white missionary, but to-day
he must plan his own work largely to fit ever changing conditions,
and learn to make each day count most for Christ. These men must be
men of fidelity, men who have been trained in our Oahe or Santee
schools, men who have a much larger knowledge of the Bible than their
fellows. There have never been half enough of such for the work.

David Many Bulls, one of the best men we ever had, never went to
school a year in his life, but he was an exception in his successful
work. He was stationed 70 miles from a white missionary. Well do I
remember the starting of this out-station.

It was an out-station, away out from anywhere, but the few people
there were urgent for a teacher, and promised to help all they could
and furnish logs for a meeting-house. I travelled over 600 miles back
and forth before we had a house for the preacher and his family. At
first he lived in a tent, and in November it was cold. In the change
from one community to another he was cheated out of his beef issues
for a month. He suffered this with other wrongs rather than make
complaint whi