| Show r STUDENT LIFE 130 I died thinking of ship how they had been held in ‘Tell Michael' and tell him to meet his wife quarantine and of the great num- him and little Lottie in Heaven’ This ber of children that had died Michael gasped “And Lottie was the last she spoke and in ah died” “Yes” the captain replied hour she too was gone” The Irish laborer stood for an inT “her mother watched her night and ani day but at last she died and was staiit turned to his comrades will I soon Jjuried with several others who gasped “Good” by boys deck fell to the be with them then had died the same day” The stricken man stood silent in a faint His friends raised him waiting to hear the rest “Bear it and bore him home to the little bed bravely my good man” said the which he had prepared for Mary captain “I wish any one else had He sank lower and lower and withit to tell rather than I The night in a few hours was on his way to after your child died Mary became meet his wife and daughter R K H ill suddenly and called me to her Indians at Church Indians at church! We are more inclined to think of them as loungg ing about their tepees or as being in the chase making wild incantations at a war dance or stealthy attacks on the settlements of the whites than as being in a house of prayer Not all Indians howeer are savages Many years ago the Congresmoke-smellin- gational church sent missionaries to the red men of the far northwest Dr Whitman and his devoted wife were the pioneers Far from their homes and kindred the earnest missionaries courageous toiled to Christianize the dusky “children of the forest” and as a result here and there in the states of Washington and Idaho are In dian villages whose inhabitants are now disciples of the Nazarene On the north bank of the Spokane River a few miles above Fort Spokane is such a village Its largest building is a church and when on Sunday the bell peals forth the Indians with solemn faces take their way through the crowded streets to the church Eleven years ago I spent a Sunday at this place In the afternoon the church was crowded The lame the halt the blind old warriors young men women and children came flocking from forest and dale Sub-chiCornelius was there in his suit of broadcloth but most of the men wore shabby clothes Many of the women were plainly and ef |
