views with students. On three successive mornings at chapel exercises, brief papers were read by the professors of Biology, Physics and Mathematics, defining their personal attitude towards Christ and Christianity, and their view of the claims of the Christian faith. These papers, embodying a personal confession of faith, made a deep impression upon the students, and helped to create a favoring disposition towards the message of the preacher. As the services proceeded, it was evident that there was a spirit of serious and deepening thoughtfulness in the student body. Christian students gave themselves to prayer and to personal ministry. Study rooms became prayer

rooms.

Late one night the President's telephone rang, and the glad message came that in one of these prayer rooms a student had surrendered to Christ. On the following morning two or three students sought an interview with their President. The Spirit of God was at work. It had been planned that the services should close on the evening of the Day of Prayer for Colleges, but the feeling that there were many on the verge of decision led to the announcement of another day of services. Just before the close of the last service opportunity was given for any who had accepted who had accepted Christ to confess Him with their lips. There was a moment of tense silence and expectancy. A stalwart young fellow arose amid a group of students-members of his fraternity-and in clear resolute tone said, "I have accepted Christ as my personal Saviour, and dedicate my life to him." Another, and another, and another followed, until twelve had spoken. Then came an outburst of song, "Oh! happy day!" and ten more arose in succession. Just before the benediction was given, there was another pause, and three more confessed Christ. Several of these were seniors, and among them were young men of recognized leadership in every department of the life of the college, alike in its sports and in its studies. It was a time of rejoicing and of enlarged. expectation. The end is not yet.

A TWO DAYS' HALT IN CLEVELAND

lowed by two days of service in CleveThe busy days in Granville were folland. The Field Secretary spent the morning of Sunday, Jan. 28, with the East Cleveland Church, presenting the work of Home Missions and addressing the Sunday School. This church, under the wise and inspiring leadership of Rev. E. A. Hanley, Ph.D., is making remarkable progress, in spite of cramped quarters and embarrassing limitations imposed while their new edifice is in process of erection. Their new house will give and furnish needed equipment for their them added prestige in the community, varied and extending work. Dr. Woelfkin conducted three services during the day. On the following morning there was a large gathering of ministers-sixty or more, including representatives of several denominations to listen to an address by Dr. Woelfkin on "Places of Emphasis in the Minister's Life and Work." This was preceded by a statement by the Field plans of evangelism. Reports from the Secretary of the Home Mission Society's field brought good news of gracious ingatherings to the churches. A Conference was held in the afternoon with a Committee appointed by the Ohio Baptist State Convention to consider the extension of work among foreign-speaking peoples in the State. At night 420 men, representing Men's Leagues in the several Baptist churches of the city, sat down to supper in the lecture room of the Euclid Avenue Church, and then assembled with others in the main room to listen to an address by Dr. Woelfkin on "The Atmosphere of Power." It was an inspiration to look into the faces of so large a company of men, and to think of the possibilities of service in the kingdom of God represented by them. There are vast resources of undeveloped power in the men of our churches, which, if brought out and consecrated and wisely directed, will mean much for the progress of the kingdom.

E.E. Chivers.

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OR a number of years the greatest opposition we have had to encounter in our work among the Kiowas has been the Ghost Dancers, whose leader was SateAppeto, whose camp is on the Washata. River, some twelve miles northeast of our Rainy Mountain Mission.

For the past year Rev. H. H. Clouse and wife, our missionaries, have been holding services at this camp more or less frequently. The cardinal principle of the Ghost Dancers' religion is the old Messiah craze, which originated among the Sioux. They believe and teach that the Indian Messiah will come again soon, and that at his coming all the white people will be burned up and the dead Indians will be resurrected; the buffalo will also be resurrected and all kinds of wild game, and the Indians will again have undisputed possession of their lands and return to the barbarous times when they spent their lives in the chase. There is something about it which appeals to the

Indian nature very strongly. They claim that the Christian religion is the religion. for the white man, but that this is a special revelation to the Indians. There is no question in my mind but that some of the leaders are sincere, but others are fostering this idea for "revenue only."

Missionary Clouse secured the consent of the Ghost Dancers that a Camp Meeting should be held at their camp, and they turned over to the use of the missionaries the cook-house which they had erected, and the grounds for camping. Probably 500 Indians assembled by Sept. 28th, and meetings began that night. The writer, together with Missionary Burnett and wife, and Miss Cottrell, of the Osage Mission, Rev. F. L. King, of the Arapahoes, four Christian Comanches, and the missionaries from the different Kiowa Missions, were in attendance. The writer did not arrive until Friday evening. Rev. George W. Hicks, of Elk Creek Kiowa Mission, preached that night, and opportunity was then

given for Christian testimony from the Indians, after which Sate-Appeto made a talk.

Among other things, he said: "Missionaries tell us that our fathers, who never heard of Jesus, have gone to the bad place, where they are burning in a great fire. Now, if my friends have gone there, I want to go there too, for I want to be where my friends are." Another point he made was that they are taught by the missionaries that Jesus came to the white people and the white people killed Him; and he gave the impression that if Jesus had come to the Indians they would never have treated Him in such a manner. Another point in his address was that the white people claimed to be Christians-to be the friends of the Indians, and yet they came there and established saloons and gambling places in order to take away the Indians' money as well as to ruin his health. Also that many professed to be Christians and did very

bad things-that their lives were much worse than the lives of his followers. His address was a very shrewd arraignment of what he considered to be the teachings of Christianity as compared with the belief and practices of his followers, and it shows what our missionaries have to contend with among these people.

In a subsequent meeting, which was attended by Sate-Appeto and his followers, a sermon was delivered from the text, "The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now He commandeth all men everywhere to repent, because He hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world by that Man of whom He hath given assurance unto all men in that He hath raised Him from the dead." The teachings of the Scriptures were plainly stated that those who never had the gospel will not be held accountable for rejecting it. Also the fact was brought out, that while Jesus came to an