Our communion on Sunday was very interesting. There were added to the church four colored students and three Indian boys. These three are representatives of three different tribes. One of them was an Apache. He came to us sixteen months ago with no knowledge of Christ, and none of God, with the exception of what he had gained from an old medicine man. He told me that God was like the wind that came in at one window and went out at the other. He has been very earnest in his study of the Bible and has come to my study night after night when he had had a hard day’s work and an evening study hour that he might read the Bible with me. Not long ago he told me he wished to pray in meeting and asked me if I would write out what he wanted to say. So I took my pen and after long pauses he told me what he wanted to say to God. I wrote it down just as he gave it to me. He has carried it away to learn so that he may take part in our weekly meeting in English. The other two boys have come to me twice before and asked to join the church but I have told them to wait. But now it seemed as though they could wait no longer and they were glad to profess their faith in Christ. THE CHINESE. * * * * * THE PENALTY OF PROSPERITY. BY REV. W. C. POND. Our schools were never before so prosperous as during the last six or eight months. Each successive budget of monthly reports showed a larger enrolment and a larger average attendance, in the aggregate, than had ever been secured before. Notwithstanding that we have closed our schools in Oroville during these hot months, and have given a month’s vacation to the Berkeley school, the reports for June call for their superlatives as cheeringly as did those of April or of May. The rolls for June showed the names of 908 Chinese pupils, and the average attendance was 437. During the ten months now past of the present fiscal year, no less than 2,152 Chinese have been enrolled as members of our schools, and thus, for longer or shorter periods, have been brought to hear something of the true God and the only Saviour. Many have been with us but a short time, but not one, I believe, has failed to get some new idea which, it would seem, must have set him to thinking, and thus may prove to be in him the seed of the everlasting life.