shall I trust him, dare I trust him, can I trust
him?' The Indian takes a step ahead, and stops and trembles, doesn't know
if he dare take another.

"Do you want to know the solution of the Indian problem to-day? In
Christ's love take the Indians by the hand and lead them out into the same
light, the same love, and to the same Christ that you have. You can talk
about the government and land in severalty. Grand and good as these are,
the first and all-important thing in that problem is the gospel of Christ.
It must do it, it can do it, it is doing it, it will do it. The Women's
Missionary Societies of fifteen Indian churches gave $200 more for home
missionary work outside themselves than the Women's Missionary Societies
in one hundred and forty churches of white people in the same time. They
have Christian Endeavor societies there, and all kinds of Christian work.
I saw one morning delegates from the Christian Endeavor Society going out
to teach a white Sunday-school nine miles off in one direction, and
another similar school four and one-half miles off in another.

"It is said that the young people will go back to the blanket. In ten
years we have had only one case of that in our Santee school, and that was
the case of a young girl who had only been in the school six months; 95
per cent. of all that come to the schools go back consecrated young men
and women.

"When you think that your five stations have gathered in two or three
hundred scholars and of the possibility for each, can you tell what will
be the result of this work? There are thirty thousand poor Indians in
Dakota alone, lifting up their cry to the Christian church for light and
hope." He added: "I have turned my back to many storms on the Dakota
prairies, but God grant you may never turn your back on a soul praying for
light. I sometimes dread the day of judgment, because there is to stand
the Indian. I would rather stand there in his place than to hear him say:
'I was hungry and ye gave me no food.' How shall we meet it, how shall we
answer it? for to meet it and answer it we must before the throne."

Here Mr Shelton finished and sat down. "Now let's pay our debts," said Mr.
Moody. "How many people will give $100 toward that $1,800 for sustaining
those missions?" It didn't seem as though there were many responses at
first, but in a few minutes eighteen names were handed to H.M. Moore of
Boston, who was keeping account, and then Mr. Moody asked if there