that had doomed the two little children of Rev. and Mrs. Willard to death, it was not thought safe for the mission family to remain through the winter, and consequently in the fall they removed to Sitka. A few of the children in the home accompanied them and the others returned to their parents. Since going to Sitka, Mr. Willard has been invited to take charge of the station as Juneau, and it is hoped that he will accept, at least for the winter. This case of witchcraft reveals a danger to which all the missionaries in this region are liable. Last spring plan, but only defer it t A day school is kept th son, daughter of the form HC This station is supple McFarland, with James J preter. During last win boys, 76 girls, and 74 adu This The the daughter of one of the Chilkat chiefs, who was in As their people scatter fishing and seal-hunting ca followed them around in th ing in all their principal ca vice kept fresh in the mi they had learned in the w miles by water from a po will be unable to receive a world until next spring. FORT The church at this point of its way, with Rev. S. H With his usual zeal Mr Last winter an Indian sorcerer and his wife brought their daughter, about 12 years of age, and placed her in school for five years. A few weeks afterwards, having an opportunity of selling her to some visiting Indians, her parents came and asked to take her out of school. This was refused by the superintendent. They then offered to send her brother in her place. The superintendent replied that he would take. the boy if they wished, but would retain the girl. They then offered him $10 in money if he would let the girl go. Failing to procure her, they hired two Indians to steal her. These men were concealed around the premises a week before they were discovered and captured. Some white men assisted the sorcerer in securing a writ of habeas corpus and the girl was If a child failed in hi schoolmates, neglected rules of the school, an correct him, in a fit of leave the institution, f doors wide open. Spec AN ESKIMO FAMILY. produced in court. Upon this occasion the judge (McAllister) ruled: Ist-That the verbal contract of the parents in placing their child in school was not binding; 2d-That as a white man cannot make a contract with an Indian, a written contract would be illegal; 3dThat if the officers of the school attempted to restrain the children from running away, or leaving whenever they wished, they would be liable to fine and impris onment Indge Dawne who succeeded Mr McAllis creasing its numbers, an hopeful. God's spirit has follow and 28 have been added fession of their faith and were from Rev. Mr. Wil Having as yet no organi 250 miles to profess Ch Two additional ministe "Of such is the kingdom of heaven.” A bright-eyed baby boy came at length to gladden Gopal's home, and to engross his mother's attention. Moona's maternal joy and pride was, however, somewhat tempered, when she remembered that her precious one had come into the world without any of the ceremonies which she considered ought to have attended his birth. No honey from a golden spoon had been his portion during the first hour of his existence, no butter besmeared his tiny forehead, no priest consulted the horoscope on his behalf. True, Gopal, with the first tears glistening in his eyes which Moona had ever seen there, knelt by his side, and prayed that their son might grow up good, and truthful, and pure-a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the child was about a month old, Gopal explained to his wife that it would. be a great happiness to him, and a real means of blessing to their infant, that he should be baptized. Moona vehemently remonstrated, but he reasoned with her, saying, firmly though gently, that it was his duty to dedicate his child to the true God, and make him a member of the visible Church of Christ. It was a sorrowful day for the young heathen mother when, one bright Sunday morning, her little son was taken to the Mission Church to be baptized. Moona almost expected that her little son would get ill after the performance of the Christian rite; but, on the contrary, he throve amazingly, and grew a very fine boy, the joy and pride of his parents. The young wife began to get accustomed to her wedded home, and to think that it was a far happier arrangement that husbands and wives should have an abode of their own, rather than the rules for them laid down by her religion. Her regret for the absence of the daily ceremonies grew less as her child began to fill her time and thoughts. But when their little son was about three years old, a great sorrow befell Gopal and Moona. The bright, joyous child sickened, and after a few days' illness was taken from them. Together the poor sad-hearted father and mother mingled their tears over their lost one. Many of their neighbors, on hearing of their bereavement, came with well-meant efforts to comfort them during the sad hours which followed. Then Gopal had to go back to his work, but it was with a slower step and a heavier heart than before that he betook himself to his usual employment. The great sorrow told visibly on his strong frame; and his acquaintances, in discussing their neighbor's bereavement in their after talks, expressed themselves quite sure that Gopal felt his loss much more for days on the cold bricks v intensified on her face, looki as it was possible for any hu divine comfort, and bereft of where could she turn? The child with an unselfish love, pure flame that her heavenly spark of faith and trust in H It happened one day, as mood, that a new visitor can was the widow of a missiona of the women of India in country after her husband's boarding-school for native C there was urgent need of suc well-suited to the work she ever, filled her hands, and st visiting the many Hindu would have been gladdened Having happened to hear she made an effort at the to her house. She was th whom the Hindu girl had ev Perhaps it was a peculia Mrs. Faithfull's manner tha ten to her words. It must turned a literally deaf ear who had sought to comfor in her draperies, and maint an obstinate and ungratefu words were simple and few and came from a heart brir "Your little boy has a safer, softer bed to-day than you could ever have given him. He rests in the arms of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the happy home in his kingdom." "He is safe and happy!" dreamily murmured Moona; but the words seemed to become more real to her as she repeated them, and she looked eagerly into Mrs. Faithfull's face as she asked: "Do you know this? You said you did. Are you quite sure that this Son of God-my husband has told me about him-that he has taken my little son to be only good and kind to him?" "Quite sure," said Mrs. Faithfull, with a sweet, soothing smile, "for He has said so. If you would like to listen I can tell you a little about Him." When Mrs. Faithfull, in her simple narration, came to that memorable scene which has made glad the hearts of countless mothers, Moona exclaimed: "He really took them in His arms! He blessed those little children, and was good to them! Oh, then, perhaps He really has taken my little boy! I think I will pray to Him, and ask Him to lead me to his happy land," cried the girl, with eager clasped hands and sparkling eyes. "Gopal often tried to tell me about Him, but I would not listen. I think I hated Him; and yet you say he loved my little one all the time. Oh, at last I will worship Him! He will be my one God now." Gradually Mrs. Faithfull disclosed to Moona's now prepared heart the way of salvation. With patient love she pointed out to her the burden of sin, the need of pardon; and sent yet another pilgrim forth on her heavenward path. But Mooniatta required still much help and counsel in things secular as well as sacred, which Mrs. Faithfull's other duties made it impossible for her to give. The foundation had been laid; but there was still much to be done before the young Indian wife could share the many-sided benefits which the gospel of Christ has brought to her sex. "Mooniatta's is only one of many episodes," she wrote in a letter home, "which makes me desire more than ever the presence among us here of some-of many fear of God your grati esty your only veil.' "I must, to be quite p full, "explain that my possible, to have youth when she buckles on he Little, too, can be don medan women without naculars; and it seem well after youth is pas guistic powers decay as "Let her be-my 'no tiful, witty, rich and n fusion of these gifts an and if it be a lovely on water-the water of lifeperishing ones-some y but who are sunk in dr for want of a hand to s "Let her come resolve the first breath of ill-su of present adversity, not from the road which s thorny though it may other path that seems |