gave the results of his study at their meeting.  And why should not this active society of earnest young people be interested in the great work that is being accomplished among other young people, painfully in want of the advantages which those here enjoy?  A prayer meeting pledge of the Y.P.S.C.E., printed in the Sioux language by Indian boys at a Santee school, is a most interesting evidence that this society is not confined in its usefulness to any locality or race.  A vigorous Society is one of the elements of work in this Indian school, and a most useful element.  In a letter written by an Indian boy is the following:  “We have a Christian Endeavor Society here.  I joined that society not very long ago, and we have nice meetings on Saturday night.  It does make me feel good in those meetings.  There are about thirty members now.”  And so these Societies of New England in their prayers for, and contributions to, the work of the American Missionary Association, are clasping hands with the same societies among the Negroes, Mountain people and Indians.

The “King’s Daughters” are also a useful agency in the field work of our Association.  A little Indian girl writes interestingly of the “King’s Daughters” of whom she is one.

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DEATH OF SUPERINTENDENT HALL.

Just as we are going to press, (October 18th), we are startled by the telegraphic announcement of the sudden death from typhoid fever of Prof.  Edward S. Hall, one of our Field Superintendents.  Mr. Hall had been one year in the service of the Association, and had already shown himself to be a man of varied and remarkable capabilities—­not only skilled in the management of schools, but familiar in an unusual degree with the practical work of building and repairing school and church edifices.  His services have been invaluable to the Association, and it will be difficult to supply his place.  As a man of noble Christian character and consecration to the work entrusted to him, he had won our highest esteem.

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DEATH OF LARMON B. LANE, M.D.

Rev. Larmon B. Lane, M.D., died at his home in St. Charles, Ill., Sept. 15, 1889.  He was born in Tallmadge, Ohio, June 21, 1821.  He studied medicine at Cleveland Medical College, and afterward attended Oberlin College and Theological Seminary, graduating in 1848.  The following year he was sent by the American Missionary Association as missionary physician to Siam, where he labored faithfully, ministering to soul and body six years.  In 1855 a severe hemorrhage compelled him to give up the missionary work.  After a short rest he began his work of preaching the gospel.  He had successful pastorates in Illinois and Ohio; afterwards he practiced medicine in Geneva and St. Charles, Ill., at which latter place he died.  He was successful as a physician and continued to the end a loyal servant of Christ, was deacon, treasurer and Sunday-school Superintendent, besides being always ready to do with his might what his hands found to do.