in conference.  One thing, especially, impressed me in this Indian work, and that was, the difference in character between the average teacher employed by the Government and those employed by this Association and other missionary bodies.  Many noble men and women are at work under the Government in teaching the Indians, but the purpose of the Government-school at the best is simply to make intelligent citizens.  The purpose of the mission-school is to develop character, to inculcate purity, to create moral earnestness, in other words, not simply to citizenize, but to Christianize.  We need more mission schools among the Indians, for only the mission idea can redeem a pagan people.  I would like to speak of Miss Collins’s work, gradually bringing the village of Running Antelope on the Grand River into the knowledge of Christ, and of the developing work at Fort Yates, and of the work among the Mandans, Rees and Gros Ventres, and of the motley and picturesque crowd that gathered for communion in the little church at Fort Berthold; but the interesting facts from these fields must be left for other notes.

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THE SOUTH

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The Daniel Hand Fund is doing a noble work this first year in the education of many students who would otherwise not have been able to attend school.

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HOWARD UNIVERSITY, THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

The anniversary of this department opened the commencement week of the Howard University at Washington, D.C., which extended from Friday, May 24th, to Wednesday, May 29th.  A crowded audience was in attendance at the Asbury colored church.  The graduating class of four was exceptionally small this year, having been less in number than usual on entering three years ago, and having been particularly unfortunate in deaths and removals.  The preceding graduating class numbered twelve, and the succeeding one will number thirteen.  But the addresses delivered by the young men were of excellent quality, eliciting high approval from numerous intelligent judges who were present.  One general from the army, who listened with great interest, came up afterwards to express thanks to one of the Professors for having invited him to attend the exercises.

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TILLOTSON INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Wednesday, June 5, witnessed the close of the eighth year in the history of Tillotson Institute.  The closing exercises began on Thursday, May 30, with the annual written examinations which, on account of the very large attendance of this year—­greater than ever before—­meant more work than usual for the teachers.  These examinations cover the work of the entire year, and are looked forward to with much apprehension by the students.