Christian herald and signs of our times . ifwe permit it. They decided to have no moreintermarriages, and that the young man whowas the offender in the present case should bepunished and the child killed. A committe wasappointed to remove 1 it, but they did not wantto do it. That night, an old aunty stole thebaby and made a little soup of venison and putit into a skin bag. Then she hid the baby in ahollow tree with this bag to live on. When thecommittee came, the child was gone. Theydecided that the Great Spirit had taken it away. It the child comes back, they said, 1 allright; we will let him
Christian herald and signs of our times . ifwe permit it. They decided to have no moreintermarriages, and that the young man whowas the offender in the present case should bepunished and the child killed. A committe wasappointed to remove 1 it, but they did not wantto do it. That night, an old aunty stole thebaby and made a little soup of venison and putit into a skin bag. Then she hid the baby in ahollow tree with this bag to live on. When thecommittee came, the child was gone. Theydecided that the Great Spirit had taken it away. It the child comes back, they said, 1 allright; we will let him live if he stays here. Ifhe never conies back, then we will know thatthe Great Spirit has taken him away, and savedus the trouble. The baby was kept hidden acouple of days and about the third night, themother woke up, overjoyed to find it beside herin bed. The boy was regarded after that ascharmed and under the special care of theGreat Spirit. He became a chief of the tribe. 292 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. May 13, A NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY. SEYKNTY-FIVE YEARS WORK OF THE AMERICANBIBLE SOCIETY. Over Fifty Million Bibles and Testaments DistributedThroughout the Entire Glolie—How the Society, froma Modest Beginning, has Become a MIghty mid Ev;r-Increasing Force for the Spread of the Gospel- UsOrganization and Management Described. See illustrations on the first page. J Q\ EVENTY-FIVE yearsago, this w e e k, anumber of gentle-men met in the Con-s i s t o r y-room ofthe Dutch ReformedChurch in GardenStreet, New York,City, and organized,in a modest manner,what has since become one of the most powerfulagencies for Christ in the entire history ofevangelization—the American Bible had been Bible Socities anterior to theone then formed and much good work had beenaccomplished by the Philadelphia, Connecticutand Massachusetts Societies, the first of these,the oldest in America, datingback to 1808. The New YorkBible Society, the New Jersey,and similar o
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