than by thus saying from our purses as well as from our hearts,
'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us'?

"Finding it is best for myself to 'strike while the iron is hot,' I sit
down at once to send you a check. The signal mercy of the Lord enables
me to make my offering of dollars instead of cents, and has put so many
benefits already into the fraction of the current year that it may be
reckoned as a complete year. How small an acknowledgment does even a
dollar seem for a year of life, with all its escapes from peril and all
its experience of good! What a refreshing addition to the resources of
the church would result if each professing Christian would give such a
birthday offering of one cent for each year of life! May the Lord fill
us all with the spirit of him who gave himself unto the death for us.

"I pray earnestly that the American Missionary Association may continue
to enlarge, and its work to prosper."

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NOTES BY THE WAY.

BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.

White Men and Red Men.

"THE ROUND UP!
INTERESTING HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES LAST NIGHT."

The above was the characteristic heading in a Dakota paper of an