very pleasantly, as he was one of the
speakers on that occasion. He is as successful in the great work which
comes to him, as the pastor of one of our churches on the prairie, as
he was in telling the story of the work among his people to Eastern
congregations.

Even the building of a barn at the prairie mission may be turned to
the spiritual advantage of the Indian people, as is proved by the
experience of Miss Mary P. Lord at Flying By's Village, N. D. The
following extract, from a recent letter of hers, tells the story most
interestingly. Frank and Daisy are her horses, who are really
four-footed missionaries. Miss Lord writes: "On Sunday the ponies took
me twelve miles to conduct service at Oak Creek Sub-Agency, where my
people were gathered for the Monday morning issue of rations. Service
over at noon, a drink of water and a feed of grain, and then two hours
and a half later we were twenty miles away to attend afternoon service
at Little-Eagle's village, where I played the organ for the English
singing of the boarding-school children there. Yesterday they brought
me to Fort Yates, thirty miles."

* * * * *

HUT AND HEAVEN.

BY REV. C. L. HALL, FT. BERTHOLD, N. D.

Three years ago in our visit to the Indian homes, we found
Netkuschiripas (Little Eagle) on his bed unable to get out of the
house. Mary, his wife, washed for white people, hoed corn, and
tenderly cared for him. He told me he believed in Jesus and would join
us as soon as he could come out. It did not seem that he ever would
get better then, but his faith put new life into his body, and two
years and a half ago he was baptized in church, and got about to do a
little work now and then. This fall his working days came to an end.
He could only lie on his bed or sit in the sun at the door. Mary had
to haul the firewood and nurse him, as well as work out. For a while
they stayed at a neighbor's house, but an old Indian woman insisted
that he should wear his beads and other heathen adornments. He refused
to do so, saying that now he was a different person. As this annoyance
was kept up he and Mary left and stayed by themselves in a dug-out on
the south side of a bank on the edge of a willow bottom. His bed was a
few boards with a straw mattress and a few quilts. The room was
lighted by a single sash--the rude shelter of two of God's children.
When he felt himself sinking, he said: I do not know what God's will
for me is,