has so wonderfully led me and blessed me.

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THE INDIANS.


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PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE.

Rev. T.L. Riggs, our missionary at Oahe, Dakota, thus describes the loss
of a team and the peril of his fellow missionary, Rev. J.F. Cross:

"I wished to cross my team on the ice to the west side of the Missouri
and keep it there for use during the breaking up of the river. Being
very busy with some writing, I asked Mr. Cross to take my team over when
he started to return to the White River, sending a man with him. Mr.
Cross's team went over safely, but mine, which Mr. Cross himself was
driving, broke through and were drowned, in spite of every effort of the
two men. Mr. Cross had a narrow escape. He managed to save the wagon,
but the horses went down with harness on as they were driven. Mr. Cross
took the loss so to heart, that together with the strain and agony of
the moment, it quite prostrated him. He started for White River in a day
or two after, though I felt that he was hardly fit to go."

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