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The following extract is from a composition on "The Blacksmith."

"Man in his state of incarnation has various ways of making money to
supply himself with nutriment so that the body may be able to
exhiliarate its immortal tenant, 'the soul.' The one about which I shall
speak is the Smith. This trade is of momentous importance.... It is
quite amusing to hear him when he is mending a piece of malleable work;
he has a way of striking the iron that makes it sound harmonious to the
ear, and children very often stop to hear him."




THE INDIANS.


A TRIP AMONG THE OUT-STATIONS.

The out-station work among the Indians is a feature almost
peculiar to the Indian Missions of the A.M.A. These stations are
the picket-lines pushed forward into the Reservations beyond the
line of established schools and missions. Each one consists of a
cheap home connected sometimes with a cheap school-house, and
these are occupied by one or two native Indian missionaries who
teach and preach, and thus accomplish an immediate good and lay
the foundation for the more permanent church and school. The
Association has about twenty such stations on the Cheyenne and