we gathered around the boxes, and on our knees lifted up our hearts unto God, our Heavenly Father, and prayed for his richest blessings upon the loving hearts and willing hands that had so abundantly administered unto our temporal wants. Then the opening began, and you ought to have seen the sparkling eyes and happy faces and heard the exclamations of joy and ejaculatory prayers, as one article after another was lifted out and handed around. Oh, brother, language cannot express the gratitude of our hearts. Our Heavenly Father can make you all feel it in your hearts, though. After we had finished and the children were all trying on their clothes, Wat came to me, looking very serious, and asked: "Papa, when we get to heaven will we know these people?" I told him yes, we would. Then he said: "I'll go right up to them and hug 'em and thank 'em for my clothes." Then we all had to cry a little and pray again. Brother, do thank all those dear sisters, and you may read this before your church as a faint expression of our hearts. God bless you, yours, and your Church and work.

Your brother in Christ.

South Dakota.-Scandinavians.

LAKE PRESTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, September 11, 1894. Dear Brother :-The reason my application is late, is because I have found no time to fill it out; have been busy with my "missionary tent" since the 7th of June; closed my meetings yesterday, and have now laid up the tent for the winter. I have had my tent in seven different places, viz.: Orleans, Faulk County; Webster, Day County; Straudburg, Grant County; Lake Norden, Hamlin County; Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County; Sun Prairie, McCook County, and Mayfield, Yankton County. In two of these places, Webster and Mayfield, we have no organization. I have had the largest gatherings of Scandinavians on Sabbaths of any ever known in the State; 208 sermons and addresses have been delivered in the tent during these meetings. Our Scandinavian pastors have changed about and helped me. About sixty have been converted and thirtythree have been baptized-sixteen by myself and seventeen by the pastors of the respective churches. I think the best work that has been done in any three months

among our people has been done this summer. A good many of our churches will be without pastors this winter on account of the hard times. The crops have been a total failure in some parts of the State, and some of our brethren have not raised a dollar's worth on their farms, and how some of these people are going to live through this winter is more than I know. I have been in the State thirteen years, but never saw a time like this; but we look to our Heavenly Father that He will in some way help us. We have among us many poor families with little ones that have nothing to wear when the cold weather starts in, and I do wish something could be done in the way of getting second-hand clothing for these people. Perhaps some of the better fated people in the East might be got to help you to some clothing for these families to protect them from the cold winter; and if there should be any that would like to do so, if they send the same to me, I will distribute them among those I know are just perfectly destitute of clothes. Thanking the Home Mission Society for all they have done for us in the past, and hoping they will continue long in the good work, I remain,

Yours in the work,

JACOB OLSON, General Missionary.

Staples, Minn.

Dear Bro. :-Inclosed you will find my report for the quarter ending December 31, 1894. This is the most encouraging report I have been able to send since I first came to this field. We have taken in seven new members-four by baptism and three by letter. We are looking forward to a large ingathering this winter. As you are aware, this church is but a year and a half old, and we as Baptists are becoming recognized in this town. There are but very few in this town who ever witnessed a baptismal service, and when we have such service, our church is always crowded. This is one of the hardest towns in the Northwest. It being a railroad town, there is a very rough class of people here. The saloons, gambling-dens and places of illfame run this place. Many times have I in public rebuked the Town Council for this loose state of affairs, but I am sorry to say that even in our small towns we have Tam

is the only one that has taken a stand against these evils and that puts forth special Gospel efforts. The Congregational Church is without a pastor, and they are speaking of keeping the church closed for a year or more. We need the Gospel so much in this place. The only special aid I have had was a visit from the chapel car Glad Tidings; it stayed with us for three days. Such work always tells in this place.

I am arranging for three or four weeks' meetings, beginning January 7, 1895. We pray that God will bless these meetings to the salvation of many souls.

Our Sunday-school is in excellent working order, and is very interesting. Looking forward to a rich harvest of souls, I am, yours faithfully,

W. W. LUDWIG.

The Jesuits.

BY ROBERT STUART MACARTHUR.

Jesuits are the most dangerous men now in the American Republic; along certain lines they are more to be dreaded than even the Anarchists. They are men without a country, except their church; without a flag, except the symbol of the papacy; without a home, except where their lot may be cast; without recognized children, except those of their faith; and they recognize no authority, human or divine, except that of the head of their order and of the head of their church. Roman rulers have driven them from many Roman countries as dangerous plotters against the stability of government and the welfare of the people; and so they have flocked to the United States. They here find many aspirants for political honors who are subservient to their craft for the sake of their influence. The day seems to be near at hand when all true Americans must forget their party affiliations and rise against the ecclesiastico-political machinations of the Roman Church. France was obliged for her own safety to expel the Jesuits from her soil, and these are some of the words which she spoke regarding them at the time of their expulsion: "Their dogmas break all bonds of civil society, authorize theft, perjury, falsehood, the most inordinate and criminal impiety, and generally all passions and wickedness; teaching the nefarious principle of secret compensation, equivoca

tion and mental reservation; extirpating every sentiment of humanity in their sanction of homicide and parricide; subverting the authority of government, and, in fine, overthrowing the practice and foundation of religion, and substituting in their stead all sorts of superstition, with magic, blasphemy and adultery."

Let Americans beware of the danger which confronts them at this moment, and let all true patriots in the civic, State and national elections so vote as to restrict the power of these foes of civil and religious liberty and to enthrone the time-honored principles of the American Republic.

Calvary Study, New York City.

A Short Chapter on Bigotry. It is well known that President Harrison, while very conservative in his treatment of the Contract Indian Schools, expressed his preferei ce for those maintained by the Government. In his message to Congress, December, 1889, he said (pp. 50–51):

"The national schools for Indians have been very successful and should be multiplied, and, as far as possible, should be so organized and conducted as to facilitate the transfer of the schools to the States or Territories in which they are located, when the Indians in a neighborhood have accepted citizenship, and have become otherwise fitted for such a transfer. This condition of things will be attained slowly, but it will be hastened by keeping it in mind; and, in the mean time, that co-operation between the Government and the mission schools, which has wrought much good, should be cordially and impartially maintained."

The Jesuit priest who is director of the unsavory, lobbying machine known as the "Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions "—a bureau that has succeeded in getting over $3,000,000 of public money for teaching the Indians that the only true Church is the Roman Catholic Church"-published a pamphlet in 1892 making a most violent assault upon President Harrison for his "bigotry," and citing in proof that portion. of his message which I have quoted. This pamphlet was widely circulated secretly among the Roman Catholic priests as a campaign document against President Harrison. It is now known that the Roman Catholic vote was thrown solidly against

him in order to punish him for his bigotry, and Cleveland's election was claimed by Catholic newspapers as a Roman Catholic triumph and a rebuke to “bigotry."

Two years have gone by, and President Cleveland, in his message to Congress, said: "Efforts are being made in the direction of a gradual reduction of the number of Indian contract schools, so that in a comparatively short time they may give way altogether to Government schools, and it is hoped that the change may be so gradual as to be perfected without too great an expense to the Government, or undue disregard of investments made by those who have established and are maintaining such contract schools."

Meantime the Democratic Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Democratic Secretary of the Interior both favor the entire destruction of the contract school system, and have already begun to cut it down. President Harrison, thinking the time not ripe for any step more radical, simply declined to extend the system; President Cleveland decrees its destruction.

If Harri

son was a "bigot," what is Cleveland? If the Roman Catholic vote overthrew the Republican party, as it is claimed, to punish Harrison, how will they punish Cleveland? Will they all turn Populists? They can hardly be expected to turn Prohibitionists!

A few years ago the Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Unitarians, and Friends, were all conducting Indian schools under contract with the Government, but they have recently withdrawn from the system, and have pronounced against it as un-American and impolitic. The Mohonk Indian Conference, the National League for the Protection of American Institutions, the Boston Indian Citizenship Association, the Boston Committee of One Hundred, the two million members of patriotic orders, to say nothing of multitudes of other American citizens, have concurred in condemning the support out of the public treasury of sectarian schools for Indians or white people. A Democratic Congress, which the Catholics fondly believed would favor the enlargement of their subsidies, has virtually condemned their Indian schools, by directing the Secretary of the Interior to inquire into the expediency of abolishing them altogether.

In view of these facts, the following inci

dent has an interest: At a meeting of the Board of Indian Commissioners, held in Washington last February, the Jesuit priest, already alluded to, who runs the Catholic bureau, sent a communication to that body in which he denounced the opponents of the contract school system as “ dishonest, pharisaical, hypocritical, mendacious, religious anarchists." (See pp. 112-114; Report of Board of Indian Commissioners, 1893.) In other words, they are "bigots." Who then are "bigots," anyway? Webster says:

A bigot is a person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to, or differing from them, as unreasonable or wicked."

A bigot, then, is absolutely certain that his faith is sound, and he is intolerant of heresy.

Now, it is a curious fact that bigotry has been elevated almost to the rank of a sacrament by those who are most fond of hurling the epithet "bigot" at others. I take from an authentic Roman Catholic Catechism, bearing the "Imprimatur" of the Archbishop of New York, these teachings:

"The Catholic Church, which Christ has established, teaches us infallibly what God has revealed.

"A Christian must believe all that God has revealed and the Catholic Church teaches, whether it is contained in Holy Scripture or not.

"Faith is absolutely necessary for salvation.

"Only the true faith, which the Catholic Church teaches, will save us.

Pennsylvania.-Germans.

Dear Brethren :-Grace of God! I hereby send you a few words concerning this church and the work. There is peace between the members, and we are looking for prosperity in the future. A good many outside the church are attending our meetings on Sunday, and even in the week. We have been affected very greatly with the hard times, as all our members are miners and were on strike about three months, and the work is very dull yet. In my great mission field of West Pennsylvania coal mines, three thousand of my people live without God and hope for eternity. I have not this quarter been able to visit as I have wished to do, as my salary is too small to pay for traveling expenses; however, when I get a dollar, I go visiting the nearest places; have not received any from the field, because of there not being any work all summer to any amount. I have been teaching religious school this summer four days a week, and this work has been very necessary. Honor be to God; and may the people be brought to a right and true doctrine.

Somerset, Nebraska.

Dear Brethren :-We are almost destitute of the comforts of the body here, but praise the Lord for the many expressions of trust and happiness in Him. One year ago anything but true Christianity, and now 104, most of them babes in Christ; though scattered hither and thither (because of the two years of drought-not a good general rain in all that time), as far as we know, all are faithful. I have had some sickness this summer, but the Lord has de

livered me, and I often feel as though old age is creeping on me, though but on the eve of 74. Please pray that God will give me life and strength for the winter.

J. D. STAPP.

Sauk Centre and Long Prairie, Minn.

Special revival services were held in the Baptist Church at Long Prairie, Minn., December 31 to January 5. Thirty children and young people from the Sunday-school and Junior Young People's Society Christian Endeavor, have in these meetings expressed their desire to love and follow Jesus, and commence the Christian life with the new year. Many parents and Sunday-school teachers have reconsecrated themselves to the work of the Lord.

M. B. CRITCHETT, Missionary.

Peabody, Kans.

Dear Bro. :-We have been abundantly blessed of God during the last quarter. We have received into the fellowship of the church twenty-one members, mostly from the young-a majority of them young men. We are especially thankful for this, as we were sadly in need of young men. We are looking for greater things during the coming quarter. We expect to hold meetings in two or three of the surrounding school-houses, and after that, two or three weeks more here at Peabody, if Prov. idence permits. H. P. CREGO.

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.

Selma, Ala.

EDITORS HOME MISSION MONTHLY :

Selma University is seated in the very heart of the Black Belt of Alabama, where the colored population is over 60 per cent, of the total population, and no school is better situated to do great service for the colored people of the South than this school. It is needless for one to say the conditions require that this school should receive the active co-operation of all the friends of edu cation and the friends of the colored people. Alabama has not been so fortunate as other Southern States, in this: The philanthro pists seem to have overlooked Alabama. Our needs are great. We are poor, but do

ing the best we can for our school. It we could induce some of our richly blessed brethren of the North to visit our school, examine the surrounding conditions, I am confident they would come to the conclusion that no better place could be chosen to pour out their blessings in the shape of dollars to aid us in our work. Remember, brethren, we are a people struggling against the stream.

Alabama is a Baptist State so far as the colored people are concerned. Pedo-Baptists pour a good sum into Alabama for the training of colored people, and yet the Baptists numerically hold their own; but how long can this be? Yours, etc.,

A. N. WIMBS.

The Stars in the Monthly.

As most of the readers of THE BAPTIST HOME MISSION MONTHLY know, the stars in the money columns of the MONTHLY are indications that the amounts opposite them are given for the educational work of the Society. Being engaged in that department of the Society's work, I have long since learned to watch that feature of the MONTHLY like an astrologer; and, when I say this, I do not want to be interpreted as one-sided and selfish in the work that the Society has to do; but the fact is, the work that the Society has to do among the colored people is principally educational work-the work mostly needed among the colored people. So far as the colored man's inclination is concerned, he is sufficiently religious. What he needs now is a mental, moral and social development-a character building, a business integrity, a higher and clearer knowledge of business and business obligations. He will never get these from his "revivals," or even from the Institutes that are held by our worthy and faithful missionaries. He must get these from the schools set up and set apart for him. And let it be sounded abroad that if the Negro is not developed in this way, his case is still a hopeless one. This is why I have learned so easily to be an habitual astrologer watching the movements of the benevolent stars of the North.

Out of all the institutions that we have for this great and indispensable work, only one or two of them are at all endowed-none of them amply fitted out and furnished as institutions of their character and pretense

should be. "What shall the harvest be?" Nay, how shall the harvest be?

Our readers may ask, "Is it not time the colored people themselves were taking some feature of the work to completionthe material improvement, the endowment, or the running expenses?" It may be time, but they are not doing it as yet; and it will be a long time before all or any of it will be completely done by them. To tell the reason would take up too much space now and in this connection. We will ask the courtesy of our editor later to tell the "Trojan story." I am prayerful and hopeful that most of the donations for the work among the colored people will come through the "milky way"-will be marked with an increased number of stars. Let our Northern friends stick to the Society till we can "see stars" in great numbers and then our insti tutions will flourish, and "the people that walk in darkness shall see a great light." JOSEPH A. BOOKER,

Arkansas Baptist College, Little Rock.

Genuine Grit.

It is a rule at Shaw University, Raleigh, that a student cannot re-enter until the charges against him for the preceding year have been paid. A student recently came to the office of President Meserve and said he had been working hard all summer to earn enough money to pay up his old bill and save sufficient for the present year. He also stated that he wanted to work two weeks longer before he returned, as he had a job of picking cotton at forty-five cents a hundred. By working from sun-up until dark he could pick two hundred and fifty pounds, which is a very large day's work. This is but one of many instances that could be given to show how the schools of our denomination in the South are appreciated. Were it not for the help given by churches and individuals in the North these schools could not exist, for the charges made to students equal only a fraction of the actual cost.

In what way can we more completely honor the name of one who lived a noble life, than by erecting a memorial in the shape of a public hall, a library building, a chapel; the creation of a professorship, or the complete endowment of an institution?