like faithful Hannah and good Mary of old, had brought their babes to the house of God to present them to the Lord.  After the rendering of a beautiful voluntary by the organist, the whole congregation joined in singing that grand hymn, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!” The pastor then read a few passages of Scripture selected for the occasion, giving a short comment on the same, and prayed for God’s blessing on the young.  While the congregation joined heartily in singing, “Heavenly Father, send Thy blessing, On Thy children gathered here,” Christian parents who desired to present their offspring to the Lord, having been invited, came forward and stood before the altar with their little ones in their arms.  Six bright-eyed, innocent babes were, on the faith of their believing parents, consecrated to God in the Christian ordinance of infant baptism.  It was a most beautiful, pleasing and impressive service.

After singing, “Take my life and let it be, Consecrated, Lord, to Thee,” the pastor invited all children, calling them by name, who were ten years of age and had been baptized in the church when infants, to come forward.  The church, then, through its pastor, at a cost of twenty-three dollars, presented to each child, (nineteen in number) a beautiful, well-bound copy of the Bible, with the following written on the fly leaf:  “This Bible was presented to ——­ by the First Congregational Church at Chattanooga, in commemoration of his infant consecration to God at her sacred altar, by his Christian parents.  John 5:39.”

After taking a collection of ten dollars and twenty-four cents for the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society, we sang “God be with you till we meet again,” and the benediction was pronounced.  Thus, a very interesting and we trust profitable service of an hour and twenty minutes was ended.

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THE INDIANS.

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LETTER FROM MISS COLLINS.

No facts in this field can be of more interest to the readers of the MISSIONARY than those contained in the following thrilling account of the conversion of three young Indians in Miss Collins’ mission field.  We give the facts as written by this self-sacrificing missionary.

Last Sabbath, Mr. Riggs came up from Oahe and we had communion, and there were five children baptized and seven grown people, and seven more were examined and advised to wait till the next communion.  It was a most interesting season.

Three of the young men were the leaders in the Indian dance.  They have always been the head ones in all Indian customs.  A year ago, one of them said in the dance that he should follow the Indian customs a year longer—­give himself up to them wholly and try to be satisfied, and if he had in his heart the same unsatisfied feeling, the same longing, that he then had, he should throw it all away.