Show INDIANS BURY I BABIES ALIVE Inter New-Born New Wi With h Thc Their r 0 Dead Mothers Babies Philadelphia Babies are burled alive in this civilized and Christian countr country of America Such is the savage savage sav sav- age custom of at the Pima Indians of Arizona Dr Dirk Lay Presbyterian missionary to the aboriginal tribes of America declared In an account of his work given at the Arch Street Presbyterian Presby Presby- terian church Doctor Lay has converted to Christianity Christianity Chris Chris- a majority of the tribe during the many years of at his stay at Sacaton Ariz Am and has conducted an Indian church hurch which is the largest native American church In the country It was only last year that I came upon a frightful case where the child of a dead mother was burled buried alive by some of the outlying Indians he said It Is a u sa a savage e custom to bury the new-born new child chUd In the arms of the mother mothr who has died at its birth We Weare Weare Weare are endeavoring to substitute gentler Ideas for the primitive ones of the sI n savages es through h Inculcating the beliefs of ot Christianity The Plain Pima Indians ever have ha been great friends of or the white man When Columbus came carne over they promIsed promised prom to be friends to our forefathers The first set settlers tIers promised to be befriends befriends friends Mends to them The kept their promise We broke our promise |