a full half dozen come to greet us, saying, “Catka, winyau waste luha, lila caute ma waste.”  “Left Hand, (Mr. Cross) you have a good woman, so I am happy.”  Sunday comes; at eleven o’clock we go to the neat little room, chapel and schoolroom.  Here fifty men and women with children of all ages, listen with eagerness and attention to Mr. Cross as he tells them of the wise men who came to seek Jesus.  Some of the faces are dirty, and so is much of the clothing.  But all listen as if they perhaps might see this same Jesus.  This is Dakota, our field, our people to save.

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NEW CHURCH AT FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA.

REV.  T.L.  RIGGS.

On Sunday, the 8th, we took steps here in the organization of a new church.  By invitation, two of our Oahe Church, Solomon Bear Ear and David Lee, were present from the Cheyenne River Agency, and it was judged wise to organize.  The Apostles’ Creed and a short Covenant were offered as Articles of Faith and the pledge.  The nine members of our Oahe church whose homes are at Grand River and Fort Yates will become members here on dismission at Oahe, and the native workers and other missionaries will also transfer their connection, so that if all do so, the new church will have a membership of eighteen or twenty.

In connection with these services the new chapel was dedicated to the Master’s service by public expression; it has already been so consecrated.  I doubt not, in the heart of the giver of the funds, as well as by the prayers of all who have been interested in it.  Is is a bright, pleasant room within, and has a snug appearance from without.  I think Mr. Reed has made a very creditable success in this his first building.

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THE CHINESE.

CHINA FOR CHRIST.

BY REV.  WM. C. POND, D.D.

It is quite possible (though I do not distinctly remember about it,) that our readers have seen this caption at the head of my articles more than once already.  Be that as it may, I am sure that such persons as read this Magazine cannot be weary of it.  It is the motto of our corporation adopted twelve or thirteen years ago.  It then looked rather magniloquent for a work so humble as ours; but there was promise in it, and prophecy, and nothing less would satisfy either our Chinese brethren or myself.  This promise and prophecy begin to be fulfilled.  We hoped then, and now we are gladdened by oft-recurring confirmations of our hope, that we were laboring not only for these sojourners in our own land, but for a mighty multitude to be reached by their testimony, and to be leavened by the influence of their example.

This will be illustrated for our readers by the following extract from an address delivered by one of our brethren at the last anniversary of our mission at Santa Cruz.  His English will require a little straightening, but for the most part, I will give it just as spoken: