| Show BUT nUT SCRATCH THE TIlE SURFACE AND THE TIlE INDIAN IS PAGAN PAGANI I Of Ot course he is Ostensibly all the New Mexico Indians are Roman Catholics but hell he'll pray to his own gods for tor rain and when his own fail tall him why then hell he'll try tho the faded out ones of the white man but but not till then Mrs Wetherill told the e following in illustration at the home of at President President Pres Pres- ident Wm R R. Palmer at Cedar City recently when I was a gue guest t there One year In n the pueblo I I was living livIng living liv liv- ing in there had been a drought the crops were burned the outlook for winter near near- starvation near some some something thing must be done and done don at once They must have bave rain The Indiana IndIans Indians In In- diana had danced had fasted tasted had bad prayed for the needful rain but aUto all aU to no avail So So- So but then there were the white mans man's to pray to To seek Beek that aid a group of at Indiana In- In Indians Indians In In- diana with the religious leader at their head came to the priest in charge of at the Roman Catholic Church and said We want to borrow the image atthe of at the S Savior The priest let them have the Image image Im- Im age which they reverently took and with due veneration and all aU solemnity solemnity solem solem- carrl carried d it in stately procession all around the village into all aU the store roms rows to show him how bow little left over then out Into the fields to show him the condition of at the land and the dire need for tOT water Then with the task well done they returned return return- ed not triumphant nor exulting but hopefully in a sincere appeal for expected ex- ex expected expected ex ex- results Back to the padre they brought the image That night It rained It rained cats and dogs in buckets full tuu a torrential torrential torrential tor tor- downpour drenching everything everything every every- everything thing Indeed too much rain The of the white men were potent potent potent po po- tent In In fact too strong Fields gardens streets all aU all were washed with gullies dug as the torrents torrents torrents tor tor- rents of at the tho deluge cut The damage damage damage dam dam- age was apparent On the tho afternoon of at the same day the Indians returned and asked May we wo borrow the image of at the Virgin Mary So the good padre let them have havethe havethe havethe the image Of ot the Mother of at Christ which they took with equal veneration veneration veneration venera venera- tion but this time they took the Icon not to the granaries or storehouses but directly to the fields where with rolled up feet teet bare they waded in the mud and took her allover allover all allover over the devastation Back to the priest the procession came camo with all due reverence while he looked on puzzled Then Thou he bethought him to I and asked I Why did you come and get Jesus Jesua Jesus Je Je- sus sua and carry him all aU around 1 To let him see see seo they artlessly replied replied re re- plied that we needed rain store rain store storehouses houses low crops burned Why then after you had got rain rain plenty of It it- it did you ou carr carry the image of ot the Virgin around Q aUant all ail over ant the tha field |
