Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan- June 1896) . t threaten society in this territoryare more serious and numerous than in any otherpart of the west. We are beset on the one handby the ignorant and superstitious Indian; we areendangered on the other hand by the unprin-cipled white man. There is no part of thewest where so many kinds of life are throwntogether; we have the highest and best, and wehave the lowest and meanest. There is growingup in our midst a heterogeneous mass of igno-rance and vice which like the union of explosiveacids, will bring wreck and ruin to this beautifulland unless
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan- June 1896) . t threaten society in this territoryare more serious and numerous than in any otherpart of the west. We are beset on the one handby the ignorant and superstitious Indian; we areendangered on the other hand by the unprin-cipled white man. There is no part of thewest where so many kinds of life are throwntogether; we have the highest and best, and wehave the lowest and meanest. There is growingup in our midst a heterogeneous mass of igno-rance and vice which like the union of explosiveacids, will bring wreck and ruin to this beautifulland unless we educate. The fact is, the Indianis face to face with civilization, and he must risein his manhood and meet it like a citizen. There is no getting away from the march ofcivilization; there is no longer any chance ofisolation, and whatever may be done in thefuture with the Indian in his relations to theUnited States, there can be no action that willdo away with the need of a higher Christianeducation. 20 STEPHEN R. RIQGS, D. D., LL D. [January,. STEPHEN R. RIGGS, D. D., LL. D. REV. R. F. SAMPLE, D. D. It was on a pleasant morning, June, 1837,that an unpretentious little steamer came tothe landing at Fort Snelling, where the Min-nesota River joins the Mississippi. Amongthe passengers who had come all the wayfrom the land of the pilgrims to the hunting-grounds of the Dakotas, were a young min-ister and his wife, on their way to a missionstation at Lac-qui-parle. In their journey,they had long ago left nearly every trace ofcivilization behind them. Towns along theMississippi, hundreds of miles below, nowpopulous and wealthy, were then rude insig-nificant hamlets, and nearly all the valleyof the upper Mississippi was occupied byroving Indians, or was as uninhabited as thegreat steppes of Silent Russia. No wonderif a feeling of loneliness came to the travelersin their isolation and far remove from thehomes in the happier East. The arrival of the Pavilion was an eventof great intere
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