y retirement from
the active work which Supt. Riggs so energetically carries on, are a
painful trial, and will awaken the sympathy of all our readers.

A sad affliction has also befallen our honored missionary, Dr. A. L.
Riggs, and his family, of Santee, Neb. Their little grandson, the
child of the missionary daughter in China, has recently died of
small-pox under very painful circumstances. The entire family in China
had this disease, but at last accounts all but the little child were
recovering.

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GRAND VIEW, TENN.

BY SECRETARY RYDER.

I reached Pleasant Hill last Saturday, driving from Grand View. It is
of Grand View that I want to report first.

They are in the best condition that I have ever seen. The teachers are
doing well, and the new pastor has taken hold most earnestly and
successfully.

No one can question the bringing in of the mountain people, both in
church and school. More than two-thirds of the pupils are of native
families, and the native people are filling the church. Mr. Dorman,
the new pastor, has put the second service into the evening again, so
as to get more of the mountain folk, and he succeeds. It was a grand
thing to get him, coming with so good an education and devoted spirit.
The people are feeling happier than for years, and cooperating
cordially.

The institute is full. They cannot get on without more room. In the
primary grade they enroll sixty-nine, and have seats for twenty-eight.
The attendance is fairly well up to the enrollment and they absolutely
cannot get on long this way. It is a splendid work. The American
Missionary Association has reason to be proud of it, but it seems
imperative to have more room.

The work all over this portion of the mountains is thoroughly
encouraging.

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GOSPEL TRANSFORMATIONS.

BY A MOUNTAIN PREACHER.

This autumn has been for me a season of hard labor, and, at the same
time, one of great rejoicing. For more than a month I have been
laboring night and day almost incessantly striving to lead souls to
Jesus, and the dear Lord has blessed me to see more than thirty happy
conversions. Tired, almost exhausted, still I must press on, for there
is yet much to be done.

In the meetings held this fall I have realized more fully than ever
before in my life the mighty power of the Spirit, and the blessedness
of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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