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Ittms of Jlissionary InteUigence. 155AT HOME.Afte-- visiting several places they sfleotedFt.SiU, in Indian Territory, as the most availableThe following items are taken from the Au- pQjj,tnual Report ofthe Central Board of Miaaions: a oommittee was appointed to visit Wash-The Rev. G. M. Elliott has carried on the ington, D. C, and ascertain the terms uponregular Congregational work at Selma during v^hioh a mission could be established. It wasthe past year without interruption. Here- found that the mission would be welcomed andports a membership of eighty-one, showing a encouraged by the government and the govaetincrease of four. ernment agents. The Board was informedOn tbe 5th of Dec, 1887, Rav. J. W. Dill, that there were three ways in which it oouldwho had been acting as assistant principal of engage in the work:Selma sohool from the first Monday in Ooto- First. To send a missionary to preach andher, the beginning of the sohool year, was labor among the tribes. This would be probel"otedprincipal and placed in charge of the ably the least expensive way.Pleasant Grove Mission. Second. To send a sohool teacher vpith theThe largest number of pupils in attendance missionary. In conaideraliou of the iostruoatany time during the term waa in the month tion given by the teacher, ihe governmentuf February, when there were 398 names on would grant some aid, bat perhaps uot quitethe roll. The average term attendance was enough to support the teacher.two-hundred and sixty-five. Third. To open au industrial boardingR?v. N, R. Johnston report-i four baptisms school and take full charge of the pupils, supfluriiigthe year in thn misaiim, making thirty- plying them with clothing, subsistance, bdgtwoconverts in all. Ouly ten of them are at ing accommodations, medical atteudance,present in Oakland.school books, school appliances, &o., and toRev. J. Milligan Wylie's work in the west- supply the sohool with meohanica.1 tools, seeds,ern fieldduring the time of his temporary em- and all other articles necessary in a properlyployment as general agent was .so satisfactory conducted industrial aohuol.to the Board that it decided to make hia ap- This way would require a larger outlay atpointment permanent, at asalary of $1,000 first,but after it is established the governmentper year. He accepted the appointment and will contribute very liberally toward its supbeganhis work January lat, 1898. Kansas port, the appropriation last year being sufiio-City is such an important point and the out- jent to pay $107, for each boarding house pulookthere has been so promising that Mr. pU. It also guarantees the use of a sufficientWylie has boen giving the work in it thegreat- amount of land on which to locate and conerpart of his time and attention. It ia hoped, duct this school.however, that some one will, ere long, be A committee of the Ladies' Missionary Soplacedin charge of this place, who will give ciety of Pittsburgh Presbytery met witti theit his entire time and attention.Board, and stated that on June 1,1888, thereMr. Wylie was directed by the Board to would be about $1,600 in their treasury forvii'it Indian tribes and obtain the information the Indian Miasion. They also stated thdtnecessary to enable him to advise the Board they deaired to have this money (and also tbewhere to establish a mission among the Indi- money contributed by them annually to thisana. At his request Mr. J.R. Lee, of Wahoo, mission), used for payicg salaries of the work-Neb., was associated with him in this work- ers in the mission.