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Show H7 I EPISCOPALIAN SIOUX. H Great Work Accomplished by Bishop Hare H Amoiin the Different Tribes. H It waa Just a quitter of a century ago that Bllini iter, tkea a yoaw j roan or tblri) f'ir left bit l'Mladel- H phlu Itnmo ami went out lo spread lbs IIJH goapl simian th "lous H In lh iweniy Dr yesrs h ho Hl Wh'ifil r-il army or lb rroM nutfl- H berlng over 5 oort In thla mighty band r. wnrrl'im who fought with U Sitting Hull In th bloody fight where H Cuuer last j Itr anil other who H oftm terrorized the pioneer In th H scattered tettiemente along tb upper H Mlanourl nut thoM marauding days H ixrs o. r The Sioux rides on a daQ- H latins trail no mors The tepeo baa H given war to ilic houM, the iftadleln H lodgo lo th church ami lb tchool. H Tbit msrvslous transformation baa H com largely through th Mlf-socrtto- H Ing ffton o llltbop liar U The spirit of tbla chang la striking- H Ijr ahnwh In tbc great convocation H whli h ib Slmix churchmen hold ever H fall From all parta ot the reservation H delrgstlons from lb Ogallalas, Hit H fllssetons, the lllsekfcet, the Bantcea, H the Wahpeiona and the other Bloux HH tribe Journey to the convocation. Hjj In long trntna they wlml orer the H hllla and plaint, aome of them being H on tha roed for 10 or 1! days. Now H and then there li heard floating above H them, not a war hoop, but a hymn. H Each delegation boa a banner bearing H lie name When th meeting plac H ta reached tent nto pitched, and by H the time the convocation opent the H Dakota prairie look aa It an army H vers encamped on It. H Here It lllihop llare'a open-air en- H thedral Imtead of rafter th blue WA Tault of th tky li Ita roof. Th Chan- j eel rail la a meridian uf latitude On H ft carpet ot lluffalo greet the altar It H raited, and liefare It It assembled th H largett number ot rommunleunta ot H tha l'rottttant Episcopal church that H gathers at any diocesan convention H or convocation In all America. W South Dakota It by far th largett H Indian minion of the Episcopal Mm church It reaches 13 tribe, and out U of a population ot ss.ooo Indiana over H 9.000 hava been baptised and nearly H 3,000 confirmed About CO churrhct H and cbaptlt bva been built, and four M boarding tchoolt H The blthop hlmtelf left fame, for MM tune and frlendt behind him when h j went from bit Philadelphia homo out H DALLAS AND EMILY 8IIAW. j (The former la r Bloux Episcopalian 1 deacon nt ttotebud Agency, and H Emily It hit wife) mW among the wlgwamt of the Sloux. He H waa young, gifted, of high conncc- 1 tlont and bad a promltlng future In H the tastern church. He took tha boat 1 ho bad aud gavo It to th unlettered j savage l'erbapt tbe Indian did not H appreciate tho tacrlflce, but ho loirti- W ed to love the kindly man who came H to belp him, H Frlendt Innumerable ho nudo whor- W ever be went, bring beloved alike by H clergy and laymon, from th llttl H chapel at llaltllng lllb aettlement to H the cathedral In Bloux l'alli; whllo 1 tarns baa coins to him alto li cldental- B ly became of hit great tuccnt In a 1 roott unpromltlng fltld, whlcli hat B mads him known all aver nur laud and H In other at well. |