OUR PLATFORM . For Indians we want American Education, American homes, American rights,—the result of which is American citizenship. And the Gospel is the power of God for their salvation! DEDICATION . TO NELLIE, (MY WIFE) Who, for forty years has been my faithful companion in the toils and triumphs of missionary service for the Freedmen of the Old Southwest and the heroic pioneers of the New Northwest, this volume is affectionately inscribed. By the Author, R. J. Creswell. INTRODUCTION By the R

SOWING AND REAPING. Fort Snelling Fort Snelling. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing Precious Seed, Shall doubtless come again With rejoicing, Bringing his sheaves. Psalm 126.   Chapter I. Now appear the flow'rets fair Beautiful beyond compare And all nature seems to say, " Welcome, welcome, blooming May. " It was 1834. A lovely day—the opening of the merry month of May! The Warrior, a Mississippi steamer, glided out of Fever River, at Galena, Illin

SOME SIOUX STORIETTES Part II SOME SIOUX STORIETTES.   THE DEAD PAPOOSE The Indian mother, when her child dies, does not believe that swift angels bear it into the glorious sunshine of the spirit-land; but she has a beautiful dream to solace her bereavement. The cruel empty places, which everywhere meet the eye of the weeping white mother, are unknown to her, for to her tender fancy a little spirit-child fills them. It is not a rare sight to see a pair of elaborate tiny moccasins above a little