Mrs. B——­’s husband died very earnestly endeavoring to teach her the faith he had come to have, and asking her again and again to have no idols, but to worship and believe in God alone.  She is now an earnest seeker after light, is visited on Sunday by a leading man who lives near her, and who is asked to tell them on the Sabbath of the religion and the God of whom her husband had told her.

A father, a hearer, but yet a heathen, says:  “I want to put the boy in a school where he will learn God’s ways.  I do not want him in a school where religion is not taught.”

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ELIZABETH WINYAN.

Many of our readers will remember being interested at our meeting in Chicago by the appearance and speech of an Indian woman from our Oahe Station, Elizabeth Winyan.  We have now to communicate the sad tidings of her death, after a brief, but severe illness.  Her life was an eventful and a useful one.  Elizabeth was the name given her by the missionaries.  Winyan was her Indian name.  She was born near Mankato, Minnesota, in 1831.  At the age of twenty-five she became one of the early converts under Drs. Williamson and Riggs.  She came to live at the mission, and learned to sew and do all household work.  Dr. Williamson set her to teaching some women, and so began her missionary labor.  She was a woman of great physical strength.  When she was living at the Sisseton Agency, she cut with her own hands and hauled to the Agency, driving the ox-team herself, wood enough to pay for putting her little house in good repair and to buy some farming implements.  She was a faithful friend.  This fidelity she proved during the Indian uprising in 1862.  When the mission families were fleeing from their burning houses at midnight, they forgot to take any food along.  While they were hiding on an island in the Minnesota River, she, at the risk of her own life, carried to them bread and meat.  In 1875, she and Miss Collins went to assist Rev. T.L.  Riggs in starting the Oahe Mission, near Fort Sully, on the Missouri.  At the time of her death she was in charge of an out-station on the Cheyenne River, forty miles from the central mission.  Her duties were to hold meetings on the Sabbath, one general prayer meeting on Thursday night, and a women’s meeting on Friday night, to teach every day, visit the sick, attend funerals, and teach the women to sew, cook, wash and iron.

Miss Collins says of her:  “There is no one to fill her place.  She was one of the grandest women I ever knew.  May God help our poor bereaved Dakotas.”

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AN EXEMPLARY MOTHER.

The recent death of Elizabeth Winyan calls to mind a little story connected with the training of her son, which may not be without point even now.