Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-15
WOMAN s AUXILIARY
HAS ITS SESSION
MISSIONARIES TELL OF WORK
ACCOMPLISHED
Indian Preacher Pleads for More
Active Work Among Red Men.
Hospital In Alaska
Successful

The Woman's auxiliary of the Epis-
copal diocese of Los Angeles held its
annual session in st. PauTs parish
house yesterday. In the morning a
business session was held at which en-
couraging reports were made by the
various vice presidents and officers of
the auxiliary. Mrs p. G.. Hubert, who
has been president of the auxiliary
many years, presided.
Bishop Johnson made an address at
the morning session asking that litera-
ture be distributed among the carmen
of the city, who, the speaker thought,
would greatly appreciate the timely
periodicals during their leisure between
runs.
At noon luncheon was served in the
parish house and at 230 o'clock the
main session of the day was called to
to order by the president. The after
noon was devoted to the missionary
work that is being done by the church
in various fields.
The first speaker of the afternoon
was Rev. S. A. Brigham, himself an
Indian, who has charge of the work
among the Indians of Walpole island.
Rev. Mr.. Brigham said in part:
Indians Need Missionary
"I would urge you to missionary ac-
tivity, especially to the red men. The
people in the past have made mis-
take When the early missionaries
went to the Indian they did not realize
that the Indian had anything with re-
gard to religion. The Indian has one
of the grandest of all natural religions
from time immemorial. When the early
missionaries went to the Indians they
told them to give up all their super
stitions and the complicated ritual of
their religion. The Indians simply
stood breathless because they had the
true belief in the true God and their
religion is the grandest outside of the
revealed religion of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
$50 if you want to. reach the Indian
with the story of the cross you must
realize that he has religion, and un-
less we recognize this we will fail to
reach the Indians. The Indian believes
in a God and has always looked for
ward to a mystical parsonage who was
to come
"Our church has done a good deal for
the North American Indians and I can
claim today that we owe to the church
what we are.
Work Progresses Slowly
"I minister TO about 400 Indians on
w dlpOlc tloleLuIiy lliC pOPulollOli pSlI6
about 900 There are some who still
cling to the pagan, as you call it. This
is the most trying time in the history
of the Indians. He has given up his
own religion and changed to the Chris
tian life and because the early mis-
sionaries failed to recognize his religion
the work today is making slow prog
ress.'
Mrs. J. e. Cowles spoke on the mis-
sion work as carried on in Honolulu,
from where she recently returned after
visit of several weeks. Mrs. Cowles
spoke of the work being carried on by
Bishop Resterick, who was formerly
from this diocese, and of the tropical
life in the isles of the Pacific.
Miss Clara Carter, a deaconess from
Alaska, presented the work being car
ried ON in the north by the Episcopal
church where she has been stationed
several years, far in the interior. After
describing the hospital work Deaconess
Carter continued:
I'VE did not go there for attention to
the body alone, but to do what we
could for the souls of the people there