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Indian School are ill, and it is ^expected that many of the older ones of the tribe will die this winter of tuberculosis. The tribe numbers about 1400. They never have heard the story of Jesus before. My brother is the first missionary to that tribe, only thirty hours’ ride from Los Angeles. When he tells them the story of
was united in marriage with John Tourjee Daniel, on Christmas, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Banta, Colo rado Springs, Colo. H. E. Grings, working with George P. Wicker in Mendocino County, finds his work fascinating. He says: “I am glad to be here in the Church Extension work.
H. E. Grings, Mendocino County Missionary.
Jesus they think it is a fable, because the white man did not tell them of it long ago.” E. H. Osborne, one of our boys now in Idaho, writes : “I enjoy working here very much. The meetings are successful and many calls come from different parts of the State. This country is full of seminary men, and while I would not be uncharitable in the least degree, their churches have frozen up on their hands. I have just returned from holding a meeting with one of them and found the church in frightful condition' Spiritually. They all ought to get into the Institute, or out of the minis try, but they are blind to their real need.
There are about 15,000 people to be reached in the rural districts of Mendocino county. It is like a big gold mine, and already I have found several nuggets. Of course, I have to handle a good deal of material and do considerable prospecting to find them, but it is fascinating work.” Harry, Anderson, former student, now doing home missionary and evangelistic work in Missouri, writes: “God has been blessing me here amongst the unsaved col lege boys. They are beginning to read the Bible in answer to prayer on the part of God’s children, and I am praying that it will coftvict and „convert. -My brother writes that almost -fifty per cent, of the Indian boys and girls of T.ruxton Canyon
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