“Ptanwin,” or Buffalo woman, the mother of Spotted Bear’s wife, and more than sixty years of age, then spoke. She came down here from Spotted Tail Agency a long time ago, and attended school all winter. She learned to sing many hymns and to read a little in the Bible. Becoming a Christian and uniting with the church, she remained here a year, and then said: “I must go back to my relatives, who are still in darkness, and teach them.” She had held meetings in various places, sometimes going thirty miles to hold a prayer-meeting. All this time her son was asking for a missionary. This poor woman, lame, wholly blind in one eye, and aged, was thus passing the light along. Once in her sickness her daughter heard a sound coming from her room, and on going in she found her mother singing, “Jesus loves me; this I know,” in her own tongue. The daughter said, “Mother, what is the matter?” She replied, “The pain will not let me sleep, and when I pray and sing, it strengthens me and helps me to bear it.” In her address she said: “I found you had not collected much money, so I said: ‘I will help.’ I got a buckskin, tanned it, and brought it down. I give it to you to make little things out of, that the people will buy. When I started to come I expected to have a good time, and strengthen myself with your presence. Now I am here, God has given me even more than this—He has permitted me to see and take by the hand the one who brought me to Christ (Miss Collins), and my heart is full of joy.” Her daughter, Spotted Bear’s wife, then made a few remarks in behalf of the sick. She said: “We have tried to help the sick, but we have but little money now, and so can do nothing. We want more money. I remember nothing influenced me in my early Christian experience so much as the way the missionaries cared for the sick. All of you know how the care of your body draws your heart toward the one who cares for you. Now, in many cases if we are good to the sick, we may win the souls to Christ. Then let us not be close or stingy. Let us help all we can. Christ came down from heaven. He gave his body to die on the cross, to be pierced and spit upon, and nailed to the cross. All this He did for us. What shall we do now for the people? We cannot die for them; it is not necessary. We cannot give our bodies for them; this is finished; but we can help them. We can give money; we can read the Bible and pray with them. Let us do something; we must be doing something, for these are our brothers, our sisters, our children and our parents who are living in darkness. We can help. We know the blessing of the gospel. We must give this blessing to our people. We must be faithful. Our American Missionary Association is not able to do all that the Indians need, and we must help. As surely as we pray and read the Bible and _give_ to this work, just as surely will we ourselves develop into large and strong Christians. I will now ask your help for this work.”