Evening star., 1903-10-23

reserved for the white race only; third. it
makes use of and gives honor to men who,
while they may have but little education,
have good intentions, much tribal influence
and fair gifts of leadership fourth, it null
tiplies assistants at comparatively small
cost, and thus reaches the many widely
separated little settlements of Indians who
could not be ministered to by the clergy
except very oeca aSionally, say once Il
month; and, fifth it raises up a body of
workers in which suitable candidates for
tested.
These assistants need not be the regular
teachers of the people. Their office may be
rather that of pioneers and recruiting
agents, to mingle with the people and con-
ciliate them; to rally them in religious
meetings and to lead them in singing and
train them in the simpler portions of the
prayer book service and in the catechiSm.
Let them speak also the word of exhorta-
ton. Then later, if he has approved HIM
self. ne becomes senior catechist and
wears an appropriate badge. My theme has
been methods but of course, methods of
work have but one end the bringing the
Indian to the intimate knowledge and full
possession of the ChriSt-Christ, bread of
life to the hungry; Christ. water of life to
the thirsty; Christ, light and life to them
that sit in darkness; Christ open door to
those who grope in the dark; Christ, COM
panion and example along life's pathway;
Christ. the Joy of the heart; Christ the very
elect of God in whom Gods soul delighteth.
Now to conclude. 1t has appeared, as |
have pursued my theme, that the proper
methods of approaching the Indians have
been conceived of as embracing the Indian
in the whole man--the Indian in his body
soul and spirit-the Indian as a man to
whom it is appointed to I've, and man to
whom 1t is appointed to die, and so l have
discussed methods of work without so much
as raising the favorte question whether the
Indian race is what is called a dying race
or not. They have, by the by, been called a
dying race SO long and have so long sur
tod hose Huyhn hDIra
called them a dying race that one wonders
that they do not turn to US as sick Charles
ii is said 10 have turned to his attendants
and ask our pardon for being such an un
considerable time in dying
| But whatever may be the lot of the In
dians, duty still calls us to work for them.
Suppose these people be designed by Provi-
dence to be hewers of wood and drawers of
water; our duty is to fit them for that let.
Suppose they are to be merged in our more
numerous race; our duty is to fit them for
that absorption by lawful and proper inter-
marriage. ard arrest the present .cious
intermingliniy. Suppose they are to die out;
our duty IS 10 prepare them for a safe and
decent departure. Our duty is the palmer,
because the treatment which will fit them
for any one of these ends will fit them for
the others.
Subject Of Favorable Comment.
The address of Bishop Gailor of Tennes-
see at the session yesterday, i'll which he
advocated the development of distinctive
ly American church, has been the subject
of much favorable discussion on the part OF
local clergy and layrnen in the Protestant
Episcopal Church. Among other things,
Bishop Gailor said:
I'VE ought to erkt,aslze the fact that
this church is not ee church of the middle
ages, nor the Church of England, but an
American church. The problems we have
to solve and the difficulties we have to en-
counter are in a peculiar sense our own.
For us to import into this church the
manners and customs, the prejudices and
parties of the Established Church of Eng
land. seems to me a mistake. Romanism
has tried In vain to be Roman in the United
States, and is now attempting to convince
people that 1t Is the American Catholic
Church.
mo body Of Christians ever had the
splendid opportunity that we have to dem
onstrate that 'Catholicity does not mean
Romanfsm and that American is not
synonymous with Grass individualism: but
we shall not do it as a branch of the
Church of England, only as an American
church"
Authorized Statement.
At the close of the afternoon session this
statement was authorized:
"A report was made by the archbishop