New-York tribune., 1874-10-12
SALVATION OF THE INDIANS.

tn, r. Rev r. d. Huntingdon D. d. Bishop Of York
at Grace Protestant Episcopal Church
Among the other sermons upon the mission
airy efforts of Protestant Episcopal Church that
Of the Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington Bishop of Central New
York. at Grace Church yesterday afternoon. This
address referred particularly to the efforts among
the American Indians Bishop Huntington showed that
the Indians were not. as many have said, utterly de-
graded and incapable of receiving the influences Of
Christianity; and II they were so far below the
rest of the human race much the more should their
salvation be sought. The Church was very full The
substance Of the sermon is as follows:
There is an account by st. Matthew in the fifteenth
chapter, of woman IN an agony OF alarm calling out
is not meet to the chldrens bread and to cast it to
dogs She said Truth, Lord, yet the dogs eat OF the
Jesus answered: 40 woman, great is thy faith be it
unto thee even thou wilt" The Gospel s seen
the national line We come suddenly. the story goes
on to the meeting point OF two great sreams-the slug
along forty centuries more. and the river OF
life. fresh from its fountain in God; flowing now into
lifetime the Kingdom is asserting its three great
ideasgratuty, impartiality and cathocity travelling
Summer Of its second year. at the northwestern
limits Of His own land nth The ~ gaesthSIn hSIona must st
one more than another; to a people that
has culture. art law and civilized traditions or to hu.
many ITSELF however barbarOus Outlandish II may
be treat the transaction on the western frontier OF
Judea as prophecy These communities ont OF whose
the aborignes of the SOIL crowded westward toward
the water by strong co9nst IRON @ ns rdn d
termined heathensh dogs" that had long worried the
sheep of the House Of Israel one woman asks Tor "a
Son OF Man into those royal seats where they
SWH wS ifS% @ anG Isaae in the Kingdom
In the dialogue and the miracle OF charity whlch ac
possible sanction for this dOctrne-hat the of
difficulties in the path Of Chrsts religion becomes the
OF its power that obstacles TO the gospel any
where dearest for its pushing forward
and that just where il is desired least and hndered most
there it finds the field OF it's greatest victory The
friends Of Indian missions do not ask help be-
is results an 3 because ney are
KIND Of last test of the power Of the Healing Hand II
mess Hs ty It will win anywhere breaks down there
with painted Dakota or murderous Modoc u s beaten
and nothing can deliver it, force is really vital and
valid it wants expeud itself against the hardest re-
sstance In the spiritual kingdom hls principle noi1s
purpose the gifts OF His Son was 10 reconcile All un'
Ieconesd things The more utterly On ne ,e,e
terstic temper OF Jesus Christ 10 save Ihronghout
the entire 81 TN tine e asa o, ,ne o
have been sought by the shepherds Just as II Is the
Upward after God, if 6spy they may mud Him, is
the blessed instinct Of men everywhere, who have found
Him. feel downward 20 the very bottom OF the social
scale in order 10 f others up The most ubilant Joy
has always been over the one sheep brought IN from the
The eooniest picture OF the Indian character that has
ever been drawn Is in the OF an historian OF our
time TIE red man may nave DeeD, as he maintains,
stupid in intellect feIocious In appetite, mean without
humility and cruel without courage. not restrained by
virtue nor quickeDed by ambition. For the present.
grant IL all In the name Of the Holy Gospel j
claim that this only lifts into I0ftier eml-
nence the solemn perseverance OF our forefhtbers
In their work the Indians. The worse you make
the red men 10 be- the better make our doctrine
10 be- We have hand nearly 100000 Indians Inc
practical elements Of the Indian question at the outset
were hreerst the people OF the United states wanted
the Indian lands and pleaded the law OF history which
claims the world for civilization; secondly, an
prineipled adventurers were determined IN the
process 10 better themselves by every sort OF petty
Injustice; but thirdly, somehow the retaliation and
ven geance OF the savages must be controlled There
were two WAYS Tue Government might make Its stip-