covenant in my blood, this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me." Did they, at that time. recall his words in the synagogue at Capernaum; "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me and I in him." Did they remember the saying repeated in the law of Moses, "The life of the flesh is the blood, it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul."

For long

they sat together as the custom was and the Master talked to them, not of the deliverance from the bitter bondage of Egyptian slavery, but of his unfailing joy and peace and love, their heritage through all the ages. Their baffled loneliness at the thought of losing him gave way before his deep abiding joy, the full assurance of his perfect fellowship with them forever more. They were no longer servants, but his friends. It was the fullness of his love for them that must be realized in laying down his life. Their lives were one with his as branches of the Vine. As they should find their larger life in him, the fruit they bore should bless earth's struggling multi

tude. Through trial and persecution they should know his perfect peace. And as he prayed for them so prayed he for us all-that we all may indeed be one in him and he in us till time shall be no more. And when they sang that hymn, which ends all Paschal meals (Ps. 115:118), even to the closing words, "O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever," they went out to the Mount of Olives.

This was the ancient feast transformed, made radiant with greater glory, for the light that shone on Bethlehem's plains was brighter far than the fire at Sinai's base, and the Prophet like unto Moses who had been eagerly expected through the centuries was not simply such a one as the great deliverer from Egypt's thraldom. As we gather at the table of our Lord, he never bids us call to mind by word or sign the bitter bondage of our past. "As far as the East is from the West so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." As we share his life so freely given for us, we pledge anew our enduring fealty and declare afresh our hope and peace and joy in him, our loving service in our fellow men.

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NEVERAL of our college Associations are doing a splendid missionary work which has never been written up. This is found in the communities where, near the given college or university, there is an Indian school needing help, especially with its Bible classes. The plan used in such a case is to divide the girls in the Indian School Association into small group Bible classes, each led by an Association girl from the neighbor

ing college. The ideal plan is for all of these leaders to be in a normal class taught by someone in close touch with the Indians and knowing their needs. The criticism is sometimes made that the Indian girls would receive better instruction if they had older leaders, and it is indeed true that one college girl told of her difficulty in trying to make the Indian girls believe that Christ was born in Jerusalem when they insisted that he was

born in Bethlehem, but although mistakes may be made and some of the teachers may be inexperienced, the Indian girls are receiving by this method the two things they need most -Bible teaching and a knowledge of what pure, true, Christian girlhood and womanhood mean. They also have an opportunity for friendships with the splendid girls who are giving precious college time for this work. The college girls insist that they are receiving more than they give; one wonders if this is not true when one thinks of the training they are receiving, not only from the Bible teaching but from learning to understand to some degree a primitive people and girls whose lives and manner of thought have been so different from theirs.

The plan was started by the girls of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., and for some years they have given every Tuesday night to the teaching of a large number of Indian girls in the group Bible classes. Their normal class is taught by Dr. J. W. Walker, the new Young Men's Christian Association secretary at Carlisle. The Dickinson girls and the Indian school girls sometimes exchange leaders for their weekly meetings, and timid little Indian girls have been known to go down to lead the meeting of these college women "because Y. W. C. A. girls always are friends and do things for each other."

When we remember that the Indian women have always kept in the background and are very shy and timid, we understand something of what it means to the development of these Indian girls to enter in this way into the lives of other girls.

Kansas University at Lawrence furnishes Bible teachers for Haskell Institute in the same city. Their normal class is taught by Mr. Elmer E. Lindquist, the Young Men's Christian Association secretary of Haskell, and their plan of work is much the same as that of Dickinson. They have been able to help somewhat with the mis

sionary and other meetings, especially with the Bible study rally which was held for the whole school, and have been most generous with the time of their student secretary in letting her help the Indian girls from time to time.

Lawrence College at Appleton, Wis., has for a part of its missionary work the care of the Association at the Indian school at Wittenburg, Wis. The railroad fare involved in this undertaking amounts to quite a little each year, but the girls have succeeded in raising it and someone goes out once in two or three weeks to spend Sunday with the Indian girls. It is more like junior work in this case, for the Wittenburg girls are quite young. Others at Lawrence write letters to the Wittenburg girls, who are very happy to hear from them and to answer the letters.

Willamette University at Salem, Ore., has taken charge this year of the Bible work at Chemawa Indian School, six miles out on the Interurban. Miss Chappell, the Dean of Women, leads the normal class, and the Indian girls are being greatly helped by this interest and teaching.

The Association at Mt. Pleasant Normal School in Michigan is furnishing Sunday school teachers for the Indian children who attend the Sunday school in Mt. Pleasant. The Indian school here has few older students, and therefore there is no Association, but the Bible classes are held at Sunday school time.

The Whitworth College of Puget Sound and the city Association of Tacoma, Wash., are much interested in the Cushman Indian School, and are planning to help in this school when its Association is organized.

South Western College at Winfield, Kans., occasionally sends leaders down to Chilocco, Okla., and would give more help if it were nearer.

A number of the schools in California help in sending delegates from Sherman Institute, Riverside, and the Carson City School, to the Pacific

Coast conference, and the Nevada. University girls have also helped in this. The Indian girls in these schools have very little means of securing funds for the conferences and probably some of the greatest joy and blessings which have ever come to them have come through the summer conferences.

This is an extremely short account of what some of our student Associations are doing and what it really means to the Indian girls. It is impossible more than to suggest this, for it is only as one goes from school to school, year after year, that its full significance can be understood. One gratifying result is the fact that the Indian girls are going home to take part in their church work and that more and more the older Indian women are looking to them for help, even though it has always been very bad taste for a young girl to hold a position in a society above an older

woman.

One girl told me a short time ago of being appointed treasurer of the women's society in her church. Another asked advice as to Bible readings, for the women were helping to send her through school with the understanding that she was to come home and take charge of their Bible lessons. Another girl, who was so timid that she seldom recited in school, was looking forward to the time when she was to lead a meeting and help in her home church.

When in the starry gloom

They sought the Lord Christ's tomb,
Two angels stood in sight
All dressed in burning white
Who unto the women said:

On a reservation in the North only one girl was found who was dressed like a white girl and was trying to live as she had been taught in school, and when surprise was shown at this, she explained that she was an Association member and had been in one of the Bible classes taught by a college girl. Many other instances could be given to show how this primitive race is being developed in its Christian life and is being prepared for citizenship through the inspiration which comes through fellowship with the great numbers of students in the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations. Our great hope is that they may be thrown more and more with the white students where the schools are near enough to permit and where it is possible for them to attend summer conferences.

There are still other Indian Associations, unable to send delegates to the conferences, but which might be greatly helped by visits from Associations nearby; still other Indian schools need Association secretaries to help carry on their work. We have too long thought of the Indian schools as being so different from our own that we could not count them as part of our student movement, but the Indian girls themselves are very happy in the knowledge that they belong to this great sisterhood, and many of them would be greatly helped and inspired if they could at least hear occasionally from schools in their vicinity.

"Why seek ye the living among the dead?"

Note. A definite plan of organization with full explanation of necessary procedure is already in the hands of the city associations. Early endorsement of the plan

will enable the Biennial Convention in April to take action in time to meet the enormous demand which the Panama Exposition is bound to make upon the resources of the best organized and most efficient Travelers' Aid that can be established.

ITHIN the past few months a

companies would compel immediate unification of Travelers' Aid work throughout the country. At present, twenty-eight different organizations are engaged in Travelers' Aid in some form and degree. From the standpoint of the transportation companies, concessions to one protective society would mean concessions to all. Both in this country and abroad complaints

town to a field secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association began her letter thus:

"In traveling from another city to this place I saw such a dreadful thing happen to a young girl traveling alone that I resolved to write and ask if your committee could not get permission from the railroad company to place warning signs in all of its cars. I know it would cost a lot of money, but what is money when it comes to a lost soul? When I called the attention of the conductors of the train to the incident I refer to, they were more than willing to act."

This letter is eloquent in spite of the fact that it omits entirely any account of the incident. It is one of a kind that comes to the National Board offices all too often. The question, "What can be done about it?" stirs our hearts and quickens our desire for a Travelers' Aid work that shall be adequate to the need of the unprotected and uninformed people who venture alone up and down the travel routes of the world.

"Could we not get permission from the railroad companies to place warning signs in all of its cars?" is a constantly recurring question. Under such circumstances as those indicated in the letter, the need of some such plan as the one suggested for warning unsuspecting travelers is so obvious as to seem imperative. If posting warning signs and directions in all passenger cars were practicable, the adoption of such rules by railroad

many people are trying to do Travelers' Aid work and that much would be gained by their coming together and putting Travelers' Aid under one responsible organization.

The need of unificatron and devel

opment of Travelers' Aid has been so apparent for a long time that the Young Women's Christian Associations have been holding themselves ready for some kind of reorganization of their own Travelers' Aid departments. They are anxious to provide more adequate measures for meeting the dangers arising from the activity of vice and crime, which have increased in number and kind with the multiplied facilities and ramifications. of travel due to increase of population. Changed conditions.

It is to the enduring honor of the Young Women's Christian Association that it was the first organization in America to see and meet the need of caring for the stranger unaccustomed to travel. Nevertheless an impartial review of the past twenty years shows that the growth of Travelers' Aid work has not kept pace with changing conditions. Indeed to have. attempted so large a program as that necessitated by the growth and variations of travel would have resulted in the swamping of all other departments of the Association. Investigations made by different organizations and the observations of Travelers' Aid workers and other students of conditions have revealed the fact that an

enormous amount of suffering is constantly entailed on the part of timid travelers by reason of inadequate provision for the many unforeseen and alarming experiences incident to travel; such experiences, for instance, as delay of trains, arrival at night in a strange city; changing cars; complicated transfers; difficulties in tracing baggage; failure of friends to meet trains or boats; or loss of tickets or address.

Moreover, revelations have been made of the fact that the public has been and is being preyed upon in such a way as to leave it practically at the mercy of commercialized vice. Reports of investigating commissions have startled the country from time to time by revelations of unsuspected methods success fully employed to decoy girls from their homes to certain disaster. These reports tell of agents of iniquitous traffic in women going to small communities to secure employees for fake positions; of advertisements of openings for large wages easily earned without previous training; of motherly appearing women, fatherly or brotherly men and fascinating love makers who visit towns and hamlets, who go everywhere on steamers, trains and trolleys, invade employment agencies, department stores and res

taurants.

Girls who have escaped other forms of attack are sometimes met on arrival at stations by women in deaconesses' or nurses' garb, and gently persuaded to accompany these innocentlooking strangers. Among other warnings sent out recently in London, England, by a group of five societies which have combined with the National Vigilance Society headed by the Bishop of London, in an attempt to protect girls, was one to young women against staying to help a woman who apparently faints at their feet in the street and urges them immediately to call a policeman. This trick has been worked with success.

The questions are so many-sided, the complications so great, that it

seems necessary to determine the actual scope of an adequate Travelers' Aid work at the present time, and to consider the ways in which it must work.

Development.

Since the early beginnings much has been done to increase the efficiency of the work. The main enlargement in the intervening years has been in the direction of maintaining regularly employed agents at the docks to meet incoming passenger boats, and at stations to meet trains carrying the heavier lists of arrivals. A good deal has been done by the larger Travelers' Aid departments and societies to keep open communication between cities, so that travelers who were so fortunate as to find themselves in care of the Travelers' Aid could be sent from point to point without mishap. Without discounting either the amount or value of this important enlargement we have to admit in the face of known facts that the number thus efficiently served has been small as compared with those unaided.

In an effort to meet changed conditions the twenty-eight different organizations referred to are diverting a certain proportion of their energies from the specific work for which they were created. The activity of so large a number is one of the most complicating phases in the present situation. It is the fact to be reckoned with in any attempt at a new and adequate adjustment of the work.

As a matter of fact these different societies do not include all that should be at work. Neither do they take account of many men and women outside of organizations whose knowledge, ability, sympathy and interest could be enlisted in a practical work on non-sectarian lines. Those bodies which have the most at stake in any such scheme of preventive and protective work fall naturally into three main groups: Jewish, Roman Catholic and Protestant. These groups have so vital a relation to protective work that