Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . her parents, and indue time she received her first holyCommunion. After five yearsspent at the boarding school, shereturned to her native place, where FRANCISCAN HERALD 225 she served as maid in a strangefamily. Here she contracted asevere cold, which quickly developedinto consumption, the scourge ofthe Indians. So she was forced toquit her work and to return to herparents. The pagan mother, now seeming-ly foregtful of the permissiongiven her child to be baptized,tried everything to induce the poorsick girl to renounce her faith. Give it up, she urged, andyou
Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . her parents, and indue time she received her first holyCommunion. After five yearsspent at the boarding school, shereturned to her native place, where FRANCISCAN HERALD 225 she served as maid in a strangefamily. Here she contracted asevere cold, which quickly developedinto consumption, the scourge ofthe Indians. So she was forced toquit her work and to return to herparents. The pagan mother, now seeming-ly foregtful of the permissiongiven her child to be baptized,tried everything to induce the poorsick girl to renounce her faith. Give it up, she urged, andyou will be well; your new religion this Book, but your religion is notin it. That matters not, my child,you must mind me, and forsakeyour religion. You are hated onaccount of your religion. Ourpeople, who belong to the Indianreligion, hate you, and that is thecause of your sickness. But I have never harmed any-one. Why should they hate me?I do not believe it. The GreatSpirit wants me to be up of my religion will not. ???-???••.. J. Scott and his Friends is the cause of your sickness. No, Mother, was the answer, T shall never recover in this world,my poor life is nearly spent; and,besides, you know you permittedme to be instructed in this , you should have studiedyour books, that is what you weresent to school for. That I have done, mother; Ihave studied my books, and in theGreat Book (Bible) I found myreligion. The Great Spirit made make me well. Do but listen,mother. Nenwaton renounced thetrue religion, and she died; fNiga-nibinesse, who was a Catholic gaveup her faith, joined the pagandances, and she too is no more. So,you see, mother, the renounc-ing of ones religion will not will not make me well. This simple but sound reasoningavailed nothing; Nellie must giveup her holy faith, and join thepagans. To bring this about, the 226 FRANCISCAN HERALD medicine men were invited to trytheir skill on the dying girl. TheIndians believe that sickne
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