The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-14
5. Gilman of Norwich made the fol-

| Missions and that committee be ap- | pointed to take all the necessary steps. | The motion was unanimously carried. | A motion was then made that the | president be authorized to appoint two | ladies to serve with her on this com-
 mittec.
 A vote was taken to that effect.
 Mrs Kinney appointed Mrs. George Williamson Smith, president of the
 Hartford branch of the state associa-
 tion, and Miss Emily S. Gilman, for
 mer chairman of the missionary com l mittee to act with her in the details of the transfer.
 The details are now finished. It re-
 mained only for the association to rat
 fly the action of its committee and the transfer is accomplished,
 This step which appears to some to
 be retrogressive measure on the part
 of the Connecticut Indian association
 in reality is a direct advance in the
 lines planned by the National society
 when fifteen years ago they organized
 missionary work as one of the most eff
 fective methods for securing the results
 aimed at in their work for the Indians.
 Missionaries are sent by them to
 tribes destitute of gospel teaching, and
 when the work is organized the mission
 is put in charge of some state or socie-
 ty, which is able to supply annually the necessary expenditure when the work
 well established and developed by the state seems to have reached it's limit of growth it is expected that the mis- sion station with all it's property, will
 be passed over to some one of the Church Home Missionary Boards as soon as one is ready to accept it and its valuable gift of property, and well or dered successful mission work helps the large missionary organization of the church and leaves us free for some new field of labor.
 It is no part of our presidents plan for the future of the Connecticut Indian association that. it's splendid organiza- tion and equipment should disband or become useless by inaction. Its charac- ter is permanent, as the work for Indi- ans is not temporary.
 More than one-fourth of our native tribes arc still without missions, utterly destitute of the light of the gospel, dwellers in pagan darkness here In our own land, where millions of professed Christians rejoice in the light and the blessings secured to them by the gos- pei.
 More than one-third of the Indian children of school-going age are not yet reached by the combined efforts of the government and mission schools. Our government is not Christianlzing agency, nor organized to carry on mis- sion work. Experience has proved that the methods of the mission schools of the various religious denominations laid the foundation of all real progress m Indian educational work, and there IS yet much waiting to be done.
 Sybil Carter appeals to us with plead ing voice and stretched d-out han1~ for aid for the Indian women, the neglect ed squaws of the wigwam, the wives and mothers left at home after the children have been carried away 70 school and the men are busy with the farm. She has lived with her Indian sisters till her womanly heart beats in sympathy for them: she has taught them and tested their sincerity and abil- ity till her confidence in them is belief born of Knowledge; and then she comes to us for help, clinching her appeal by proofs of their work in the shape of hand wrought, dainty laces worthy to adorn a princess.
 Mrs. Eldridge, one of our New Eng land women, has exiled herself as field matron in the country of the Navajoes. We heard her voice here in her last visit east and her splendid service is reported from time to time. Her life of self f-effacement and ministration is strong voice in our ears for support and the sympathy of recognition.
 The years have indeed wrought mar velous changes in the conditions of the race for which we have been laboring | since our association was organized, but | the task is yet far from finished.
 To our president, Mrs. Kinney, and | hers able helpers of many years stand ing the day must be largely retrospac- tive and not altogether a jubilant occa- | sion.
 All that comprises the Fort Hall mis- sion stands as the outward and visible sign of the best energies of life, the de- voted labor of years freely given for it's and it's nurture.
 Mrs, Kinney has visited the mission nome, has cheered and strengthened Miss Frost by her sympathy and appre- ,iative insight into the. complex diff ,ulties of reservation life; she has nothered the children of our family here, and when last our Lord called a title child unto Him from out their number, it was her namesake to whom He spoke
 Pressed flowers and marvellous crea- ions of their needles are sent east by he children for Mrs Kinney's birthday, with good wishes 1aboriously printed for letters; while the festival if the Holy Child of Bethlehem never onnes without bringing to each child in he far-off home a gift of loving re- from their faithful, self-sac- ificing friend here.
 These vital relations are not lightly even though the judgment nay wholly approve of the change.
 It is fitting that one of the earliest friends of Mrs Kinney in connection with this work, who is and always has 'een in hearty sympathy with each and very department of effort which has ,een undertaken in behalf of the red ace by the Connecticut Indian associa- ion, should repeat her message to us at his parting of the ways.
 Miss Fletcher's words are as true for
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