present to hear God's message to them. And to me it seemed the most beautiful sight I ever beheld. There were several admitted into the church, and one girl who was about sixteen years old, who was baptized in infancy, now in youth comes out on the Lord's side. A little boy about twelve years old was baptized, and I thought of many of the little boys at home, even older than that, who had not accepted the Saviour, and, although they have so many blessings, yet he hath chosen the good part which shall not be taken away from him. "I think the angels in heaven rejoiced when these people lifted up their hearts and voices in praise to Him. And as the old missionary hymn rang out on the air, I thought it seemed even grander than ever before." CHAPTER XXI. 1871-1877.--The Wilder Sioux.--Gradual Openings.--Thomas Lawrence.--Visit to the Land of the Teetons.--Fort Sully.--Hope Station.--Mrs. General Stanley in the _Evangelist_.--Work by Native Teachers.--Thomas Married to Nina Foster.--Nina's First Visit to Sully.--Attending the Conference and American Board.--Miss Collins and Miss Whipple.--Bogue Station.--The Mission Surroundings.--Chapel Built.--Mission Work.--Church Organized.--Sioux War of 1876.--Community Excited.--Schools.--"Waiting for a Boat."--Miss Whipple Dies at Chicago.--Mrs. Nina Riggs' Tribute.--The Conference of 1877 at Sully.--Questions Discussed.--Grand Impressions. We had been long thinking of and looking toward the wilder part of the Sioux nation, living on and west of the Missouri River. More than thirty years before this, in company with Mr. Alex. G. Huggins, I had made a trip over from Lac-qui-parle to Fort Pierre. The object of that visit was to inform ourselves in regard to the Teetons--their numbers and condition, and whether we ought then to commence mission work among them. And since the Santees were brought to the Missouri we had made several preaching tours up the river, stopping awhile with the Brules at Crow Creek, and with the Minnekanjoos, the Oohenonpa, the Ogallala, and the Itazipcho of the Cheyenne and Standing Rock agencies. The bringing of our Christianized people into proximity with the wild part of the nation seemed to indicate God's purpose of carrying the Gospel to them also. The field was evidently now open, and waiting for the sower of the precious seed of the Word. There was no _audible_ cry of "Come over and help us," nor was there in the case of Paul with the Macedonian. But there was the same unrest, the same agony, the same reaching out after a knowledge of God, now as then. We listened to it, and assuredly gathered that the Lord would have us work among the Teetons.