The life and labors of Bishop Hare, apostle to the Sioux . st be able to meet suchan offer as this, or seen almost contemptible. The remainder of the letter was an appeal forfinancial aid, the response to which enabled himin September, 1884, to lay the corner stone of AllSaints School for Girls at Sioux Falls, and inSeptember, 1885, to open its doors to school, intended for the daughters of his mis-sionaries and for other white girls to whom aChurch boarding school of the first order, neartheir homes, could impart the influences whichotherwise they must go far to seek, embodiedsome
The life and labors of Bishop Hare, apostle to the Sioux . st be able to meet suchan offer as this, or seen almost contemptible. The remainder of the letter was an appeal forfinancial aid, the response to which enabled himin September, 1884, to lay the corner stone of AllSaints School for Girls at Sioux Falls, and inSeptember, 1885, to open its doors to school, intended for the daughters of his mis-sionaries and for other white girls to whom aChurch boarding school of the first order, neartheir homes, could impart the influences whichotherwise they must go far to seek, embodiedsome of his most cherished ideals. As it was hiswish in the Indian boarding-schools to preparethe young to carry back to their homes some ofthe underlying principles of Christian civiliza-tion, so he felt that each of the more privilegedgirls of his own race who should fall under theinfluence of such a school as he meant All Saintsto be might bear to her own surroundingsthrough life something of cultivation and char-acter which could best be molded and guided. BISHOP HARE IN THE CHAPEL OF ALL SAINTSSCHOOL THE MISSIONARY TO TWO RACES 221 through daily contact with the highest standardsof living. To this end he was most careful inthe selection of teachers, and in the planning ofsecular and religious instruction. Most impor-tant of all, he made Sioux Falls his episcopalresidence, and All Saints School his personalhome. Here for the remainder of his days hemade a part of a delightful family life, in whichMiss Helen S. Peabody, the principal of theschool, and her sister. Miss Mary B. Peabody,his private secretary, exercised a congenialfeminine control. Called afield for the plantingand nourishing of new missions to men andwomen of his own race, for continuing his workamong the Indians, for journeys to the East inthe interest of his work, or abroad in the interestof his health, he returned invariably to AHSaints School with the feeling of one who iscoming home. For all which the School su
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