I charge you to remember that your mission gives repeated emphasis to the faith of the Christian church in the _redeemability_ of the Indian. Lack of faith in this truth has been the cause of much of the cruel indifference on the part of many good people—even Christian people—to the wrongs that Indians have suffered, and has occasioned lack of enthusiasm in the prosecution of Indian missions. It has paralyzed endeavor, and prepared the way for the indulgence of enmity. But notice this: No body of Christians have ever put themselves on record as not believing in the Indian’s redeemability. Stories of massacre and one-sided testimony, when the Indian could not have a hearing, have led many Christians by their opposition to Indian missions, unwittingly to array themselves against the gospel. They did not think, in taking up the cry, “There is no good Indian but a dead Indian,” “The Indian cannot be civilized,” “The Indian should be exterminated,” and other such falsehoods, that they were denying the Christian faith and practically proclaiming that there was no salvation for themselves nor for anyone else; yet that was precisely what they were doing, for if the Indian cannot be redeemed, then no one can be redeemed. If the gospel cannot save the lowest, then there is no salvation for the highest. The Indian is a man, and Christ tasted death for every man, and he is able to save to the uttermost every man. That lowest savage, wretched and vile as he is, can be redeemed, and in this redemption can be raised to highest manhood. All culture and excellence of mind and heart are attainable to him whose soul has felt the redeeming power of Christ’s salvation.