Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-20

IudI tut CuurCuS mission was CWO.1OlQ
to be the church of reconciliation
to hold up che olive branch
of Gods peace over all strife and say
''sirs, ye are brethren" and secondly to
lead wandering folks home. That we are
only beginning to learn that the church
| existed as missionary church and when
she ceased to be she had perfected her
charter. He made an earnest plea that
our churches should not be Sunday club
houses for well-to-do people, but that
when the bell pealed out its call to prayer
1t should have message for all sin sick,
wandering souls.
He spoke hopefully of the church's
work in Minnesota; when he came here
we had twenty-five clergy; now we have
sixty-fve; we had less than twenty
churches and chapels; now we have over
ninety; then we had no schools; now the
schools at Faribault are in the fore front
of education. He saw no room for boast
ing, for we were only cleaners where we
oughtto have had harvest. He felt
grateful for what had been done; it was
something to point to the goodly buildings
at Faribault, worth well-nigh 100000.
The work was only begun; no eye could
foresee the future of this Northwest.
The power to control the nation and in
1uence the world was growing up here,
all which befeels it is felt at every
center of business and commerce. Yet
all this was of yesterday. Two weeks
ago was a guest Of Hon. G. c. Trow-
bridge, Of Detroit, and he told me that
when a young man he had copied the Gen.
sus of the Northwestern Territory and
there were nine thousand $4,000 names
The mail for all the country northwest of
Detroit came once week on horseback
The future would be greater than the
past. We must lay broader and deeper
our foundations. The bishop alluded to
the wealth in the church, and plead that
some of it be consecrated to Christ. He
must endow these schools to go on forev-
er; the divinity school of the diocese had
no superior in the church, it ought to 60
on forever. He spoke of the great move
ment going on among the thinkers of the
age, the school of philosophy at Concord;
that these men looked to our profess
or as one to come there and
represent that highest of all schools of
philosophy which finds its center in the
incarnate son of God. The bishop allud-
ed to the work we could all do for Christ,
his deep sorrow that St. Luke's hospital
was fettered in Christ's work for lack of
means and asked if there was no danger
lest Christ should say to us, II was sick
and ye did not come unto me-
Ins conclusion the bishop spoke of
Indian measures; that here was one of the
best of heather races, degraded it is true,
not open idolators, men who believed in
a great-spirit and the certainty of future
life; people who had passionate love
for their children and would die for their
people. He spoke of the testimony of the
early traders to their good faith and
showed how they had been dragged down
to a degradation their faith
ers never knew. It was at the darkest
of their history that all began our work.
He spoke of the prejudiees of our people,
the hatred which grew out Of the Indian
| war, how often he had been thought q
| fanatic. For years we had little fruit
He gave instances of the power of the
gospel on Indians and said we have now
six Indian churches, ten Indian clergy
eight of full and two of mixed
blood, and no man could visit
White Earth without seeing that Chris
tian civilization would do for wild Indians
what it had done for other races. The
bishop said that this vast work to be done
was not work for the clergy, the officers
were not the army, that each Christian
man had work to do and just time to do
the work. He alluded to his sorrow that
pain and sickness compelled him to leave
them for time. counselled unity, love,
work, gifts, prayer that each might re-
ceive in the last advent "NNell done, good
and faithful servant; enter into the Joy of
the Lord -