The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-06
GH|PPENAS adore rim
BISHOP WHIPPLE IN VISITING
THEM FINDS HIMSELF AMONG
OLD FRIENDS
FEAST GIVEN IN HIS HONOR
Speeches by Chiec- ,.nd Head Men
Response by the Prelate-
Singing His FavOrite
Hymns.

A wonderful scene took place in No
vember at the White Earth and I,eech
Lake Indian reservations, when Bishop
Whipple went to visit the Chippewa In
dams, who had been begging him for
months to come, says Living Church.
The Chippewas are old Pensioners of the
bishop, having gone to him with their
troubles for forty years; but several
years ago, owing TO the creation of Il new
missionary district, they were thrown
outside his diocese, and they have never
ceased sorrowing over the fact.
The first day of the bishops arrival at
the reservation was occupied by visits
from the Indians, old and young-some
OF them coming Several hundreds of
miles. The following day was Sunday,
and the bishop held two services in the
pretty stone church Of st. Colombia.
which is picturesquely situated on knoll
amid q group of trees. The sermon pro-
duced a deep impression upon the In
dams, who later in the evening, held
service by themselves, at which all the
Indian clergymen were present. One by
one they stood up and told how the bish-
ops words had affected them, that they
felt that while their hearts were tender
and fun of counsel they should pray the
Great Spirit TO keep them tender after
the bishop went away, that they might
sc on and do all those things which the
Great Spirits children might do, and of
which their hearts were whispering. The
Indians said that it was "a wonderful
meeting"
A MEMORABLE DAY.
But a day never to be forgotten began
or Monday morning, when, long before
sunrise the Indian men were busy at
work putting up the long tables under
the trees for the feast which the Indian
women were to give the bishop and his
wife. From every direction, by wagon
or on foot, came the Indians laden with
baskets of provisions-even the poorest
among them bringing some sort of q love
offering-fruit vegetables, or game. Hun
dreds of men, women. and children gath
cred beneath the trees, and by l o'clock
the long tables would have done credit
TO any banquet hall.
The linen was as white as snow, jars
Of wild flowers added beauty and lest
the white sisters, who, with their grand
mothers, have been preparing banquets
for many centuries, be vainglorious over
the result of their efforts. let them fer a
moment gaze at the feast prepared sole
ly by the Indian women for truly the
table groaned under the weight of good
things. There were fish boiled to perfec-
ton; duck, chicken and game Drowned to
Just the right shade; wild rice (the gift
Of the Great SpiriO; salads which would
have tempted any epicure; jellies made
from wild fruits: Vepisen, wild berries,
pics, rsrhes, and various other dainties
Those who could not be seated at the
tables grouped themselves under the
trees, and then all stood while the bishop
asked a blessing. The bishop and his
wife sat at the head of the tables. with
Enmegalbowh, whom the bishop ordained
to the priesthood in 1861, and Minnegeshik,
the head chief of the Rabbit Lake In
dams, in the places of honor
SPEECHES BY CHIEFS.
MinnegeshiII is Il noble figure. over six
feet four inches in height, and at 20 is as
straight as an arrow. He is one of the
three indians to whom the bishop has
sent his coats for many years. After
the feast he said to the bishop: "Kechi-
unconstitutional, you sec how we'll 1
have kept coat. I wear it only on great
DAYS. shall be buried in it, and when
the angels who stand at the Great Spir-
its home see me coming they viii look
at my coat (pointing to the braid and
buttons which distinguish bishops
coaD, and they will say: On, he is all
rlEht; ne can go in. He belongs 10
Aeehimuchadaiconai dhe great, white
robed priesD."
When the feast was finished the m N
sat in large circles around the bishop,
and the smoking and SpCechmakin be-
gan. One by one the chiefs and head
men came forward and shook the bishop 5
hand, after their fashion in council and
lie lmpassioned tones told of the good
which they had received from the Dish
op visits. They re allied the early DAYS
when the bishop first came among tn m.
when sin and sorrow were everywhera,
they told of his love and patience: o.
how he never 8: eT di couraged, but work
ed with them and for them until he made
the trail to the Great Spirits home plain
TO them.
THE BISHOPS RESPONSE.
Each speech ended with "I have done. -
and when The last had finished the bishop
arose and, with tones which rang il
all tbs love and pleading, counsel and
admomticn of other days. he told them
IN what way they must show that they
We're children of the Great Spirit, and
IN what way they must show that they
we're children of the great ma ton HIS
words were received with loud, eHo! no
Then the Indians asked if thew nier77+
sing some Of the bishops favorite hymns,
This vas the Climax to a great dav
through the spreading forest trees
straight up to the cloudless blue sllv
pealed the familiar hymns in the b. auti-
iul Chippewa tongue: Rock of Ages .
Jesus, Lover of My Soul Nearer. Nv
God to Thee" and last, their favorit )
Holy Night, o Holy Night"
hIlshop; standing in the go,den light Of
me setting sun, pronounced the benedic.
ton, which seemed to pour the very spir-
1t of God upon the kneeling figures.