The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-25


that has been Made in the work
lowell. Mass, October 24-At the con
vention of the American Missionary Societ,
today the report of the committee OF
Southern Educa tional work. was read by
President Carter of Williams College.
The report on Indian work was presented
by the chairman, Rev. Dwight NJ. Pratt Of
Portland, Me. The substance of the repol
was as follows:
Churches here at home that find the work
of conversion dif1icult.and spiritual harvest.
ing meagre, may well turn for inspira tion
to the Indian churches of Nebraska and the
Dakotas. where in some instances twenty.
four and even as many as forty-six, new
converts have been added to individual
churches during the year on confession OF
faith.
Many of our large city churches cannot
claim such large Sunday school as that al
Fort Bertnold, n. D., with its enrolment Of
27o Indian children; or such proper tionate
benevolence as that of the Indian churc hes
which gave last year out of their poverty
$500, S3O9 and S375 respectively.
Where, under similar conditions among
our white populations, can we parallel sthe
church at Fort Yates, that in four years
has grown from membership of Is to 100
and at the May communion added II more
converted Indians to its enrolment?
,a,,+11 aa.,h1isI - 81 :.
puts to shame the devotion, the benevo-
lence. the converting power Of Congrega.
tional churches throughout the land, and
places the work of this association on the
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den of the Mongo1ian 40 in tho noT1or =,
the c,,ltured caucasian
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earth and tbus oil h,n,a,,itr-+ha nt;ro
world NJ n,issionorn o,.,ra ,iya+io, - az
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Radeemar
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demption is especially unique and fascinat-
ing,
1t should not be long before every member
OF the Indian race in the United States has
the opportunity presented him personally
OF becoming new creature in Christ Jesus
ana of having the privilege of education
and citizenship. The church never had a
more definite problem to solve. nor grand.
er opportunity 10 compete tho REDEMPTION
of an entire race.
Today Christianity is proving the Indian
to be man: man capable of grand ex.
pansion and achievement. The author OF
Soc ial Evolution mistook facts in affirm.
ing the rapid determination of his race.
Without Christianity he must indeed go:
but his intellectual and spiritual rcdemp.
ton means that he is 10 remain. and com.
pete with his brother man for the prize of
a Christian civilization.
We Protestants and Congregationalisis
ought to have more faith in the future. and
TO demonstrate our faith by increasing be-
nevolence in support of missionary enter
prise.
We ought to look forward confidently.
through the medium of this association, to
the time when the Indian, the negro, tn e
c,,;n.,,on Voc and oil b,,o,.,i+, sba1,
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