The Church Redeeming the Red Man T HE gospel for every race could not well leave uncompleted the Godgiven task of Christianizing the native Americans. This is not a vanishing race, but a sturdy, gradually increasing stock. To evangelize some forty tribes unreached, to aid in providing schools for 9,000 children with no educational provision, to nurture in the faith 17,000 Presbyterian Indians now in the ranks, to inform the Church and to challenge its sympathy and faith for the conversion of the Red Man to Christianity', is present duty. Rev. Thomas C. Moffett, D.D. With fifty thousand of these descendants of the native Americans unevangelized and unprovided with the ministry of the Christian faith, how can this Department be other than active and zealous in the task incumbent upon the Church? With nine thousand children deprived of all school privileges, governmental or missionary, how can we be indifferent to the accomplishing of a larger educational work? With the heroic ministries, and the fascinating history of Presbyterian Indian missions of the past, how can any Church be more intent than ours, upon accomplishing the uncompleted enterprise? From David Brainerd, Marcus Whitman, and H. H. Spaulding, the Sergeants, the Williamsons, the McBeth sisters, a Charles H. Cook, a James Hayes, a John Eastman, through the line of Presbyterian missionaries laboring for this race, we trace the devoted and fruitful laborers for over fifty tribes in the United States, not including Alaska. Today there are 118 men under commission of our Board, and in addition about fifty school workers are carrying forward the educational work of the Woman's Board. The entrance of new fields, the improved organization and better equipment of the Indian Missions, the stimulating of fresh interest and of newer methods have been ac complished in some measure. Interdenominational recognition and cooperation have been newly realized. Eighteen evangelical mission boards are engaged in efforts for the Indians. United action has been agreed upon through the Home Missions Council, practical comity in the division of fields, the sharing in conventions and other interdenominational plans have been approved. An enlargement of the number and the capacity of Indian mission schools is urgently called for. In industrial lines of education, a sphere of great opportunity for the uplift of the Indians is to be found. The efforts of the mission societies in this respect are very limited, but are successful where undertaken with adequate appropriations. The organization of additional Sabbath schools is called for. About one third of the Indian congregations have no Sabbath schools for the children. The supply of illustrated literature of a simple character adapted for use among Indian children is a need unsupplied as yet. The past year has marked an advance in the number of missionaries on the field, the reaching out for wholly neglected tribes, and the winning of pagans to the Christian faith where heathen rites and the medicine men have held sway for generations. The service of the isolated and trying Indian fields requires grit and grace. Men of faith and fidelity are they who labor in them. A grateful church is appreciating anew today their sacrifice and devotion. Who will equip this enterprise? This whole undertaking needs to be placed upon a statesmanlike basis. One who has labored twenty years among the Indian missions when asked "Does Indian mission work pay?" replied confidently, "Nothing pays better." A gift today counts many fold. The Indians are principally on reservations. Later they will be scattered. The door of opportunity is wide open now. Wanted! More volunteers for service on the firing line; more sons of the native Americans to give themselves for their raceministers, teachers, helpers, traders, Christian men in service of Church and state. Wanted! -friends of the Indian in increasing number to aid this cause! Cosmopol 51:105, Je '11. Senator Gore's strange tribe story Cosmopol 50:151, Ja '11. Nat Geog M 22:107, F '11. Song makers .N. A. Miles '11. ..C. E. Russell .M. L. Oliver Mary Austin ....C. A. Eastman No Am 194:239, Ag '11. Soul of the Indian (Book review) Nation 92:531, My 25, '11. Sun dance of the Blackfeet .....Calvin McQuesten Canad M 37:403, S '11. Tribute to the first American . Beverley Buchanan World To-Day 20:25, Ja 'II. Typical groups of American aborigines,...R. I. Geare Valley of the bubbling earth; a legend of Coso Overland n.s. 57:419, Ap '11. Wilderness trail (book review). ......C. A. Hanna Nation 93:242, S 14, '11. Will of the Lake Spirit (legend) .....A. H. Martin Overland n.s. 57:167, F '11. Wonderful Indian shorthand writers Columbia Overland n.s. 57:398, Ap '11. Books. Gouverneur Morris Arrow maker (drama) 1911 .J. A. Murphy Am Bk Co. ..C. A. Eastman Ann Am Acad 37:347, Mr '11. Indian and the moral code Outl 97:30, Ja 7, '11. Indians in the civil war Am Hist R 15:281, Ja '10. Indians in the Civil War, M. of Hist. 12:9, J1 '10. Intermarriage with whites Everybody's 22:369, Mr '10. Karl Moon's Indian photographs Craftsman 20:24, Ap '11. Keeping the Indian sober, Harp W 55:23, Ap. 29, '11. of British .L. E. Zeh Mary Austin Education of the Indian, 1911 ..... .W. N. Harlmann Ephraim Douglas and his times, 1910..C. M. Burton Abbott. Page. Indian and his problem, 1910 ..C. H. L. Johnston F. A. Leupp Federal government and the liquor traffic, 1911, W. E. Johnson Ward Jerome Languages of the American Indians ...A. L. Kroeber Pop Sci 78:500, My '11. Mohonk arbitration conference, Ind 70:1282, Je 8, '11. Moral Citadel (Mohonk conference) Outl 97:667, Mr 25, '11. My First fight on the plains Cosmopol 50:792, My '11. .N. A. Miles Indian folk tales, 1911 New religion among the west coast Indians, S. E. Ober Overland n.s. 56:583, D '10. Nativity basket Överland n.s. 57:643, Je '11. Northwest corner World To-Day 21:791, J1 '11. On the trail of Geronimo.. Cosmopol 51:249, Jl '11. Patrick Brice and the Nez Perce Cent 81:783, Mr '11. Mercer Vernon ..C. G. Calkins N. A. Miles Indians, C. S. Moody Kansas in the sixties, 1911 McClurg. .F. W. Hodge, ed. M. F. Nixon-Roulet ..W. J. Hopkins Haskell Inst. Pub. valley, 1911, J. R. Swanton .G. B. Grinnell ..S. J. Crawford Languages of the coast of California north of San Francisco, 1911 Univ. of Cal. ...A. L. Kroeber places and peoples in (New Mexico and ..G. W. James James McLaughlin ......C. A. Eastman ..C. A. Hanna |