Nearly three years’ experience at Hampton has shown that the chief danger, the death-rate, while serious, is not discouraging. Our 80 Indian pupils are now in better health than ever before. They need in bodily ailments careful, prompt treatment; with that there is little danger. It is clear that the death-rate is not increased by transplanting them to the East. Is not the story of our last communion service which I sent to the MISSIONARY last week evidence enough to stimulate Christians to the greatest effort for this race? I write this paper especially to urge upon the American Missionary Association and its friends some effort for Indians in connection with their institutions for colored people. The mingling of races at Hampton has worked admirably. Our colored students increased in number last year by 37 in spite of the 70 Indians for whom separate and special pecuniary provision was made by Government and by friends. Bringing Indians to negro schools is like putting raw recruits among old soldiers. The former are pushed along by a thousand indirect helpful influences; they are improved by contact with those always ahead of them in the march of civilization; and the latter are ennobled by what they do for their needy brethren. It works well; such mingling will strengthen and not weaken your schools, if Hampton experience is safe to go by. To make men of the savages on our frontier and to save their souls by putting them with the ex-slave of the country is a grand work, if it has been called “sensational.” Why not take these twenty Indian children that the Indian department are ready to give you? This would be safe; then feel your way along. Let them study mornings and work afternoons, and play Saturdays. We do so. The labor is one of some delicacy and difficulty. But the Indian is like everybody else. That’s our experience. Treat him firmly, fairly, kindly; give him no second-rate teacher; he is keen and appreciative. Why not go ahead? The Government will place them at your doors free of expense, and give you $150 a year for twelve months’ schooling and care—which will barely pay for their food and clothing. That’s all we can get. The people must pay in part the cost of such education to get it done. We try to obtain a yearly seventy-dollar scholarship for each one and have been fairly successful. You can get these by working for them. You say, “We have no room for them; where is the money with which to erect buildings?” We hope next fall to have thirty more Indian girls, making fifty boys and fifty girls, and are now trying to raise twenty thousand dollars to put up next summer a suitable building for the girls, that shall have every appliance for practical education, including cooking, sewing, clothes-making, washing and ironing, and housework generally, furnishing room for seventy.