The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-03

| of which company the presbyter ln 1 charge of tn, mission Is the command | ing officer Under his leadership the wagons, lcaded with men, women, chil- dren, tents, bedding and provisions, ] train across the plains from "sun up 1 t. dark, and under his direction the people nightly pitch their tents and | join in sunset prayers. Then sitting ahout the camp fires there is supper and song singing, and folk lore, and | story telling, and pipe smoking. The Indians are fond of fun. They have keen sense of humor; and often far in- | to the night the tent of one who has
 the gift of Interesting story telling is wlGe awake with mirth and merriment. I an told by one who knows that the
 stories in which the Indian folk indulge on such occasions are generally clean and wholesome and that the stories which are often times reeled off by an | equal number of white men in camp life suffer by comparison with these. And yet there are white faces who still say "Nn good Indian but dead In- dian" It seems strange, doesn't it, to hear that the white men who sit about the camp fires of the lAdirondacks and the Maine woods, and who sit about the banquet tables of our cities and tell stories when the women have withdrawn, are accustomed to give their tongues to more nast.ness, ob- scenity, blasphemy and indecency, than a like number of red men who, thirty years ago, were clothed in blankets and had not so much as heard the saying of the Christ, Blessed are the | pure in hearf?"
 The streams of wagons began to fo- GUS at the place of meeting on We'd nesday and Thursday, August 21 and P, and the tepees grew and grew un- til by Friday evening there was a large city of tents. Rev, A, B. Clark, presbyter in charge of the church work in Rosebud, and Rev. Dallas Shaw deacon in charge of Trinity chapel, were gracious hosts and they and their associates had made every arrangement for the success of the convocatlon and for the pleasure and comfort of their guests. Bishop Hare and Bishop Johnson arrived together at the camp in the early evening of Friday at the hour of sunset prayers. It was good to see the glad joy on the face of Bishop Hare as he greeted again the brethren from whose general assembly severe illness had kept him last year The foes he had fought, the difficulties he has encountered, the ob- stacles he has overridden to build ur the Sioux in the faith and gospel of Jesus Christ are beyond telling. And as he moved happily again with gentle courtesy and kindliness among his Da- kota children, whose touching tender. ness as they took his hand was almost pathetic, we who know something ol the church among the Dakotas said to ourselves, "He Is seeing of the travail
 of his soul and is being satisfied"
 Convocation was formally opened on Saturday morning. Bishops Hare and Johnson, the clergy, catechlsts and helpers, marched in procession from
 the church to the spacious booth whict
 was partly roofed The booth wa, thronged with worshlppers and a rev erent crowd also stood, sat or knel
 outside. Bishop Hare preached tht opening sermon and the Holy Commun-
 ion was administered. After this ser. vice. while the men organized for bus.
 mess in the booth, the women met, by
 themselves in the church. Here the an
 nual offerings were brought together | Off ,1yI,i oh Aa1 lt- , hands of the delegates from the vari.
 ous societies and guilds of womer
 workers in the chapels and mission!
 and stations throughout the Niobrars , deanery. You will be surprised and al. : most confounded when I tell you tha- the sum total of all these offerings d
 the Indian women workers exceeded , $2,700 Each offering was designated by the women who made it for the va rious objects to which they wished tt : have 1t go. These objects were domes. tic missions, foreign missions, dioces San missions, native clergy sustentatior
 fund, bishops salary fund, etc. Twen.
 ty-seven hundred dollars contributed
 this year by the Indian women of the
 church in South Dakota, for churcl
 and charitable work among both red, and whites in South Dakota; amons
 those who are "out of the way, through hard cider and the ills tha
 follow in its train, in abandoned hil
 towns of New England; among tn
 mountain cabins of the South; anon.
 the mining men of Alaska; among tn,
 Subanos of Pangpang-$2,7 700 this yea, } from the Indian women of the churcl
 in South Dakota!
 Sunday morning the convocation men and women, assembled again il the booth, the Holy Communion wa administered and a sermon wa
 preached by Bishop Johnson. On tn
 afternoon of Sunday about 100 candi
 dates were confirmed, Bishop Hare ad ministering the rite to those from hi portion of the field and the assistan bishop to those from the part of tn field committed to his care. Sunda evening Rev, A. B. Clark baptized number of babes and adults in Trnit chapel. Directly following this servic many sought shelter in the ehurc from a fierce downpour of rain whic suddenly broke upon the camp. Thi was made the opportunity for an ez temporized service at which addresse were made by Bishop Johnson and b Rev. J. R. Jenkins, minister at Chad ron, Neb, in the district of Larami visitor at convocation.
 The convocation was formally opene on Saturday and was adjourned O Tuesday. We have not attempted {