New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-08

R1,uop WHIPPLE's MIssIONs.-BIshOp Whip
Dle. Of Minnesota, has been making tour
among the indian missions under his charge
At I.aech Lake he cOnsecratCd the Indian
Cnurcn OF the Good Shepherd. d" For fifteen
years. the Bishop says, George BONG. one
al The trucSt friends the Indians ever had,
man OF mixed Indian and African blood, had
pclded for church. lie dled without seeing
il. Two year, ago Christian girl In New
York CITY, who had long pltied the red men,
lI.u and LEFT bequrst to bUld TINS
ciiuIch. My heart was jul, Tor conld
NOT AelD thinking of Miss JOSIE smith ana
my brave old yoyager, VINO waM lor us III
Paradise | cannot describe the service;
The music was heart music, and the sound
of these voices, Ike the s0uad OF many wa
tiers in that land where they sing song
which none Can learn but thCy VINO are re-
deemed from among men. continued thirty
eight persons, and some forty knelt at Holy
Communion. After service received mes
sage that the wild Indians desired to h0l'i
council | always dread these councils, FOR
they are usually filed with complaints and
pleas fer gifts. These men welcomed me
with very graceful words. They asked help,
but 1t was to provide means TO work. Ihey
ask ed for n larger schOOl-h0use. They asked
for and to begin on the road OF CIVILIZATION.
One Of their number described the progress
of the Indians at White Earth IN words which
would have been worthy OF n statesman, ana
when he pointed to tho church, with deep
feeling he said We have been looking out
tins way and that way Tor place Oi refuge
/ see that the church YOnder Is where the
weary can find rest" Bishop Nhlpple
writes with great tenderness OF the early days,
of the White Earth mission. rememDer,
ne saws. "an Indian mother who brought me
a lock or her baby's hair and SAID nave
heard that white mothers have their Daoys
haIr made in Il cross, to remind them OF the
baby who has gone aud OF Jesus VINO has
taken IT. VIII you get my DaDys Dalr maze
INTO a crossp Another mother once follow Ell
me thirty miles in n canoe. She SAID: nave
lost my only child. She was a Christian. l
have heard some one whisper If you would
follow your child to the Great Spirits home
Won must be "a Christian, ana ! have come to
ask You about the son Of the Great spirit
These were simple things, but they t0id IA
that One touch of nature makes the Whole
world KIM
CANP-MFETING INCIDENTs.-At the Cncln-
! nan cgmp-meeting, held last week, the REV.
| MIR Won 5chlumback, "a fiery evangelist, aiter
a short address from the platform, strobe
! down the aisle to make personal appeals rlght
! and left. Inspired by his example, men ana
| women did the same, the result beng that III
! a fe,y moments the long. low bench, which
| stands in the straw and answers the purposes
! of an altar, was filled with persons eeklhg
10 be saved from sin. Eight oil these, after d
| short prayel-mectIug, confessed 10 having
| fnund that which they sought, one OF
this number beng the young son oi a leading
| businc,s man Of Cincinnati. When he went
| forward his devoted par, nts burst into tears
| nj ioy. and after hi conversion his mother
tondiN stTokcd his head 0ud asked. III plead
iut, tones, " My boy. have you found jesus Z
and being answered thut tic had, raised nand'
AID voice simultaneously, ana, iOrgetiui o
the surrounGiHgs, abandoned herself 10 a per
tect ecstacy OF praise To UOd. .Chap
lam McCabe, who has taken prominent par
IN the Sunday school assembly an" camp