Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-22

of all the auxiliary solicitors of the associa
 tion in it's first year of work. It is the mother
 | of the Connecticut association. She thought
 branch should be organized in every tow1
 in the State. Connecticut can dc
 l more than she has. The National asso-
 citation sends modest hint that if any l well to do persons here have anything they wish to give for the pushing of this l work, it would be most gladly received. There I is 8 great field of this work which women l can that men can't do. It Is difficult to | get the money from the United States to do ! this civilization. Legislation is slow. We ought to be able to settle this question by the close of this century. It seems that tbe only question is for Christian men to say: ''It ought to be done; it shall be done" Few say but that 1t ought to be done, but they don't say it shall be solved. It Is said that what ought to be done can be done. 1 feel Connecticut will do her full share of this work.
 Rev. Charles Shelton, a secretary of the Indian association, spoke on missions Al. though it is said that all efforts to solve this problem have been failures, but from what have seen don't see it. Some have solved
 the question by saying the Indians had died out. But no matter how we have tried to
 have them die they haven't. Instead of ex-
 terminating them they are increasing in numbers. I am to speak of the Christian side of this question. It is said that the only good Indians are those that are dead. For Christian church to tolerate such an idea Indian is digrace. The question is, can the Indian be christianized, and does he want to be christianized9 doubt that If there is class of people on the face of the earth who are more Christian than they know, for I have roamed over the prairies with them. The Indian Is pEayerful, but he knows no God. He worships the unknown, the unexplained. I found one praying to 8 telegraph pole while ago. To him every God is an angry God, and he tries to appease his anger, to save his leYed one from some awful doom he thinks is lowering over his house. Wherever he goes he meets God. If you ask him to work and he says he won't. You ask him to change his clothes; he won't Whyi He says he will do as his forefathers did, and will not work or do anything else that they did not do, because he says the gods told them how to live and they don't want to turn the anger of the gods on them. You have got to give him new God, new hope, a new future. When you have done that you will have opened the door for fur ther civilizing them and this must be done to make all our work successful. I don't think there is race Sunken in the depths of heathenism that is more easily reached by the gospel of God than these Indiana.
 Peter Hudson, 8 good-looking Chocktaw Indian, was then introduced. According to the laws he cannot become 6 citizen of this l native land. His excellency the Rrovernor l said that he is living example that the h. ! dian can become admitted and Christianized, 1 and would, if allowed, become good oiti- ! zen. MT. Hudson said that Indians wanted to be educated. They are wanting to be civilized and Christianized. Christianity and civilization must go hand in hand. He said that farmers should be sent there to l teach them to work. They desire to be told ! of God. One missionary can do more good ! than an agent with arms.
 MT. Hudson spoke of how the United | States government had violated its treaties with the Indians. Let it never be said, he ! continued, that the laws of the government l cannot be executed. They can be executed, and the Indian can be protected and the | faith of the nation saved.
 Rev. Dr. Smyth made the closing remarks.