. Christian herald and signs of our times . speci-men of manhood physically, but he is very ig-norant. I le has no use for book learnin oreducation in any way. He savs, Heap learn-in make Indian heap lie, just like white Indians are not self-supporting. Al-though they have plenty of good, tillable landand many cattle and horses, they are lazy andindolent. The squaws do all the work. Ifthere is but one horse or mule in the family,the man rides it and the woman walks alongbehind. • »n monthly ration day the oldlady sees to getting the family allowance offlour, meat, meal, sugar, baking
. Christian herald and signs of our times . speci-men of manhood physically, but he is very ig-norant. I le has no use for book learnin oreducation in any way. He savs, Heap learn-in make Indian heap lie, just like white Indians are not self-supporting. Al-though they have plenty of good, tillable landand many cattle and horses, they are lazy andindolent. The squaws do all the work. Ifthere is but one horse or mule in the family,the man rides it and the woman walks alongbehind. • »n monthly ration day the oldlady sees to getting the family allowance offlour, meat, meal, sugar, baking powder andsoap (the but named.] am sorry to say. theyhave out little use for). I once visited one oftheir homes a mud hut without even a hintof furniture. The woman grinned and motion-ed me to sit down on the dirt floor whileshe bustled around preparing the meal. Asshe washed her hands before mixing her bis-cuit. I thought I might want to stay and dinethere; but when she took the same water to The pupils came lo my school, of all that the bov might have a safe ride to thehappv hunting grounds. Some one once said that the only good In-dians were dead ones. Now, these Ites donot seem to want to die for the express pur-pose of becoming good, but they do think thatthere is only oik- place in the great future andall Indians go there. They have their modesof worship with dance and music (if such theymay be called), but no amount of troubleif they know of such a thing—has ever causedone of them to commit suicide. The only remedy for Indian ignoranceand superstition is to be found in educa-tion and the Gospel. Thanks to the ef-forts of our zealous missionaries and de-voted teachers, the children of all the In-dian tribes are now being educated andtaught to know the Saviour. So rapid isthe Gospel progress that ere many yearspass away, there will not be a single un-
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