Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-09-09
From Tuesday's Daily.
TIE NOBLE RED Man
Bishop Whipple talks Of His Work in
the Mission Field.

and forcible speaker. Bishop Whipple I
spoke for over an hour and SO enter
tainingly and interestingly did he
speak that it was with deep regret
the audience arose at the conclusion
to receive his benedictiun.
In the main the address was
on the missionary work in
this state during the past 80 years,
under the Bishops charge. Pathetic,
and amusing incidents of
his career of a third Of century,
were related as only the speaker
could tell them. The wrongs of the
Indians were touched upon briefly,
but In g. manner convincing all that
IT it was in the Bishops power the
many treaties made between the
Indians and the government would
be carried out to the letter and they
would be accorded their just and
equitable rights. He said that when
he first became interested in mission
airy work in the Northwest SO many
years ago, the prospects were any
thing but promising. Every mission
which had been established had met
with failure. The result of his work
had spoken for itself.
Speaking of mission work in other
lands, he stated that about 100 years
ago a young man went to India to
do missionary work despite the
protests of-those who had been to
that country: The result was shown
today when there were more
christians in thatcountry than there
were Episcopallans in North America.
Japan took lesson from her sister
to the west, and today the faith in
the old form of religion is irredeem-
ably shattered. The many changes
which had taken place in that
country were matters of history.
Africa, the Dark Continent was
referred to and a tribute paid to
David Livingston in passing. One
incident was told: Forty black boys
who had acknowledged Christ, were
ordered to deny Him by their
heather King, they refused and were
gradually hacked to pieces, but held
firm to their religion. The martyrs
in religion do not all have white
skin.
Bishop Whipple said he reverendly
believed that God had given to the
English speaking races the task OF
diffusing religion through the world.
All n*tions were being fused together
to this end and it was a significant
fact that one man in five, the world
over spoke the English tongue The
race has stood before the world for
two facts Dignity of Individuality
and that they carried an open bible
in their hands wherever they went.
When he first came to this state
there were abont 10000 souls
including 10000 men. There was
no railway. telegraph or any of the
modern inventions. Year after year
he drove over the boundless prairies,
driving between 1000 and 5000 miles
a year. The men on the border
were wild and rough but their
hospitality was princely, as they
gave all they had to give. He said
he had never left the halls of an
English castle with deeper feeling Of
gratitude at the hospitality extended
to him, than he had left the log cabin
ofsome poor settlers, in Minnesota
years ago. Only once in all his years
of labor had hemet with what might
have been termed an insult, that was
when an ATHEIST had attempted to
corner him on-.a question regarding
hell. The fellow did not ask the
second question. He told story
illustrating the feeling of the men in
those dyas. He had been obliged to
stay at one place for several days on
account of swollen streams. AS he
was leaving he asked the landlord
for his bill. With a most hurt
expression he replied. 'Bishop am
a pretty wicked man, but I have not
fallen quite as low as that"
My friends,,' said the Bishop
earnestly, II have never forgotten
those words, and I don't think God
has either" -
The matter nearest the Bishops
heart, the Indians, come in for con-
siderable attention. One story
which he told will illustrate the
tendency of his remarks. The son Of
an English earl came to this country
with letters Eof introduction to the
Bishop, and with warm desire to
see the Indian as he had been, and
was, and would be. He was taken
to the reservation where one of the
chiefs told him that before the white
man came the streams swarmed
with fish and the prairies abounded
with game. At a signal from the
chief a young warrior stepped from
the door OF q cabin. He was a true
type Of the noble red man, tall and
straight. His dress was of feathers
and deer skin. The next picture was
that of miserable squalid Indian
and his squaw, dressed in rags and
covered with dirt. What made you
like this 2" nsked the chief. For an
answer the type Of Lo the. Poor In
dian drew a black bottle from the
pocket of his ragged blanket. That
is what the white man did for us, !"
said the chief. The third picture was
none the less startling and surpris-
ing. a young buck came from the
door leading his wife and Ii tile child
by the hand. He was dressed in a.
black suit and his wife In a black al
paca dress. The child was also neat.
This is what religion has done for
u.s., said the chief, and the story was
told. So
Indians he had taken and educated
had proved to be good Christians.
and too much could not be said In
their favor. But he said no matter.
who or what he was, or had been, he.
would not trust him when he had q
bottle OF whiskey.
Bscklen's Arnica Salye.