The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 4, April, 1883Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 4, April, 1883
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Hampton, Carlisle and the many schools that are educating Indians
need to be supplemented by good agents and wise missionaries who
will help them to stand against the odds that would make the
new life they have chosen nest to impossible. Here is the point
of chief anxiety. Public sentiment must be felt at Washington
before it shall remove the chief stumbling-block to Indian
progress—poor agents. As Secretary Teller says in his last Report,
the Indians are chiefly on reservations, and must for the present
be treated there; to be gradually pushed upon lands of their own,
individually, by the efforts of wise men and the influence of
Christian education.
REVIVAL WORK AMONG INDIANS AT HAMPTON.
Miss Isabel B. Eustis, in giving an account of the revival meetings
at Hampton, writes as follows of the Indians:
Meanwhile at one end of the chapel there sat a company of one
hundred who took no part in the service. The Indian students
watched with wondering and wistful eyes the scenes around them.
“Pass me not, O Gentle Saviour,” they sang often in their own
services during these days, and the Lord heard their cry and turned
aside and called them too. Stago, our fiery little Apache boy,
heard his voice, and set hard to work to conquer his temper and
self-will. The quick-witted, ambitious, head-strong girl, whose
influence over the other scholars we dreaded, listened, and her
hard expression softened, and the stubborn will yielded, and with
gentleness and humility she met the daily requirements which had
often roused her rebellious spirit before. Shallow natures grew
earnest and proud, and we knew that there was one walking with the
Indian students too who could purify and inspire and help.
On Wednesday evening our senior Indian boy, of his own accord, left
his class and took his seat with the other Indian scholars. Waiting
his opportunity, he rose and called the attention of the school to
those who sat behind him. He reminded me of the darkness out of
which they had come, and of the dangers to which they must return.
He told us that they longed for a share in the blessing God was
giving the school, and asked our patience while they prayed to the
Father, and spoke of Him in a language we could not understand.
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