Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-16
CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONCERT.
DR.. Mckay and the Warm Spring
Indians attend the Exercises.
Or. Mckay makes an Interesting
Address.

Or. Mckay makes an Interesting
Address.
The Congregational Church was
well filled Sunday evening with a
large audience, the occasion being
the regular quarterly concert of the
Sunday school of the church, and
while it has been pleasure to at
tend many of these interesting and
entertaining concerts, We cheerfully
admit that this was the best of all.
We have come to expect grand con-
certs from this school and have
never yet been disappointed therein.
The exercises opened with sing
ing 10y the school, and prayer by
the pastor, the Rev. Mr.. Sheriff..
Following this came a very inter-
esting exercise by the infant class,
entitled, "God is love-" The little
ones spoke their pieces nicely.
Little Minnie Chase gave a de-
lightful recitation, the beauty and
brevity of it harmOnizing well with
the beauty and diminutiveness of
the speaker.
Eddie Wilbur, five or six years of
age, son of Judge Wilbur, sang a
pleasant but rather difficult piece
for one SO young with much credit
to himself. So well pleased were the
audience that in spite of time and
place, applause, hearty and spon-
taneous, followed Master Wilbur's
effort.
Miss Claire Rustin, one of Oma-
has favorites, rendered a fine poem
in a very faultless manner, and
again applause followed.
The class exercises were very fine
and particularly so was the one
given by the class of Mrs. ]. H.
Kellom. TITS somewhat against the
statement that the young men of
Omaha are worse than those of other
cities, to see 20 young men-repre-
senting nearly all the different trades
and occupations of life-in a Sun
day school class, under such an in
struetress as We saw in the class of
Mrs. KellOm.
Other exercises were given ; a fine
recitation by Miss Julia Knight
also a fine defamation by Abbie
Taft; diversified with music by the
school at different intervals.
Mr.. Samuel Burns, OF the sfethO-
dist Sunday School, gave a very in
teresting synopsis of the proceed
ings and results Of the State Sunday
School Convention held at. = ehraska
City last week.
He was followed by DIR. W. c.
Mckay, who was present with his
entire party of aborigines.' He had
been prevailed upon to speak by the
officers of the Sunday School, and
he proceeded to give a short COM
prehsnsive statement of his people,
from whence they came, their con-
dition, and other interesting facts.
The Warm Spring tribe, he said,
was located in eastern OregOn-one
of the divisions of the State-about
$50 miles from the mouth of Column
bia river. The people are industri-
Gus, maintain themselves by the
sale of furs and cattle, and find am.
pie food in the delicious salmon OF
the Columbia. His people have a
good church building, with a Sun.
day School Of over 200 pupils, three
members Of which were among the
ones accompanying him East.
He touched upon the feeling OF
hostility entertained against the
government, and placed the re.
sponsibility of it-nOt upon ths
government, not upon the Indians,
but upon unprincipied agents for the
yov,-nment, who being the direct
ranreso,t.t;vos . the government,
and being dishonest and uni".r 10
ward the red men, they could not
but feel aggrieved and injured. He
paid a passing tribute to three of the
agents in Oregon, who are chris
tan men and who by their indi-
vidual power are christianizing the
Indians. He showed the progress
of the Indians i'm the past ten years,
demonstrating that by judicious
treatment, honesty and fairness in
dealing with them, that they could
be civilized and christianiZed.
DR.. Mckay is an agreeable
speaker, and evidently is at home
before an audience. This feature of
the evening was perhaps the most
novel and profitable of any, to the
large audience.
Mr.. Sheriff. followed with the
closing address, confined to a state
ment of the status of the Nebraska
Sunday Schools, showing that the
Sunday School Conventions of Ne
braska are better conducted, and
give more practical results, than
those of any other of the States.
The inevitable collection followed,
and the concert closed with a song
from the school, and the benedic-
ton of the pastor.