tive worker and a few trusty
followers for most attractive praise services. The tired dancers, a
few at a time, would drop into the meeting for a half hour. Again the
dance would attract nearly all from the meeting. The result fully
justified the bold experiment, for in a year the dance-house was torn
down and has never been replaced. This people have been a long time
in beginning to help themselves, but in the last few years have given
well to missions and this year are enlarging their small chapel at a
cost of over $400, more than half of which they have given. A picture
of this with congregation is enclosed. With this people the mid-week
prayer-meeting has been the prominent feature, many coming over six
miles to attend. Here most have learned to read the Dakota Bible, by
studying in their own homes with the aid of the native preacher or
others who could read, and good work has been done in Bible study. A
picture of the meeting-house and congregation at our youngest
out-station shows the long dirt-roofed log-house which the people
hope to replace with a chapel, having in hand nearly $100. In such a
house, not always so good, have we begun every out-station.

Only as a worker could be spared from another out-station has work
been done here. In this community the dancers are the ruling element,
though in a quarter of a mile of a large day-school and sub-issue
station. This month we begin with a man in charge of the work. In the
last two years sixteen of these dancers have come into church
membership. Nowhere else does our work come into such close conflict
with heathen practices. But sickness and death of many children have
made tender the hearts of heathen parents and opened the way for the
bearer of words of true comfort.

[Illustration: MANY BEARS' FARM.]

One good thing about the out-station is that it is portable. It is
not expensive. When the Indians move away, it can easily follow them.
But we all are grateful that we have not yet been compelled to test
this qualification. We are striving towards growth and enlargement
and permanency. The success of out station work depends so largely
upon the native worker, his tact, his Bible knowledge, his
spirituality, that in pushing out-station work we must never be
unmindful of the mission boarding-school where he must be trained.
There should be one on every reservation where we are doing work.

This is our crying need to-day--men to man these out-stations, men
who