To give you a general idea of the power of this work, which continued with unflagging interest to the last, allow me to cite two or three instances of conversion.  One, a man who had shot and killed three notorious burglars, was tried for legal informality and acquitted on the ground of the public weal.  This was two years ago, and the people who knew and understood him well, said that he had enjoyed no peace of mind since.  Notwithstanding all, he was, and is, a man of power and commanding influence, and has entered heartily into the work and interests of the A.M.A., as Brother Pope can assure you.  Another, a younger man, likewise implicated in a murder last Fourth of July, and committed to jail for a time, the particulars of whose case I am unacquainted with, cried out in open congregation, “Pray for me, I am the vilest sinner that ever lived,” and dropped upon his knees in sore agony of body and soul to join in prayer with the Christians present.  As the latter arose and began singing, “Come, humble sinner,” he stepped right forward exclaiming, “By the grace of God I will, I will,” and at that moment the great change might be read in the heavenly expression of his changed countenance.  Yet another young man, a boon companion in sin, cried out in the same way and came forward kneeling for some time, and then rising said, “I have found God; he is good; come, my friends, and find him, O come,” repeating these words as he passed through the wondering congregation till he came to me, when grasping my hand, he exclaimed, “Praise the Lord that ever he sent you to this place.”  He was asked to pray.  “Yes, yes,” was his instant reply, “that is just what I want to do;” and such a prayer as he offered up is seldom heard.  A well-known skeptic arose and openly renounced his infidelity.

As my husband and Brother Pope had both their special appointments elsewhere to fill, it fell to my lot, much against my predilections, to close the whole series of meetings by my third and last temperance lecture.  This appeal on the temperance question was also responded to, at first mostly by young boys and girls, followed by a venerable gentleman and his two sons, and then the full complement of men and women.  So all discouragements of the past are forgotten in these glorious results.

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FOR THE CHILDREN.

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CHRISTMAS AT THE S’KOKOMISH RESERVATION.

BY REV.  MYRON EELLS.

Our Christmas passed off very pleasantly, with a tree and appropriate exercises in the evening.  The church was full, with the school children, about forty-five in number, the older Indians, government employees, and a number of surrounding whites.  Two songs were sung by the whole school, one being an original piece beginning with the words, “We’re from Squakson and S’kokomish,” (the two reservations from which the children have come,) and