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Show Tbe Bletbodlsl Indian Policy. New York, 4. Complaints are published against the policy of the Metbodirt Episcopal Church with regard re-gard to its missionary work among the Indians. It is shown that of the $600,000 annually appropriated by the Methodist Missionary Society only about $3,500, taking the present year as an example, goes towards the missionary work among Amerioan Indiana, and that of this small amount only the pitiful sum of $700 is set apart . for ubo among Indians of the far weatj Methodists are the complainants, com-plainants, and they consider the apparent ap-parent neglect the more remarkable beoauae, under the plan adopted during dur-ing President Grant's administration, the Methodist Ohuroh controls tbe nomination of agents for fourteen out of sixty-eight agenoies, or more than one-fifth of the whole number. |