only safeguard for the life that now is as well as
that which is to come. Civilization, education alone can never lift
the Indian to his true position. You may take a rough block of marble
and chisel it never so skillfully into some matchless human form, and
it is marble still, cold and lifeless. Take the rude Indian and
educate him, and he is still an Indian. He must be quickened by the
breath of the Almighty before he will live. It is religion alone
which can lead him to the truest manhood, which will quicken his
slumbering intellectual faculties and prevent him from being an easy
prey to the selfishness and sinfulness of men. Let us support this
society in its grand work, by our money, our sympathy and our
prayers. Let us join in the fight, and by-and-by we will share in the
triumph. Dr. Strieby, you can remember just before this society was
formed, that it was a disgrace to be an abolitionist. It is a glory
now. The day is not far distant, yea, its light is already breaking
in the western sky, when it will be considered equally glorious to
have helped save our Indian brother, by leading him back again to
God. And while we are doing it, and as a means to this end, we must
try to get this Indian ring by the throat and strangle its life. It
has lived long enough on the blood of the Indian; let it die, and we
will never say "the Lord have mercy on its soul," for it has none. If
you have never been interested in the matter before, begin to-day; if
you have never helped before, help now. Get in somewhere, get in
quick, get in all over; do not stand around the edges looking on and
criticising others; be sure you get your pocket book open, and send
the Treasurer of the Association double what you did last year; do
something, do anything. We have been playing at missions long enough.
With our great wealth it is a disgrace that this work was not
completed long ago. With an aroused and awakened Church the whole
problem will be solved, for there will be no more Indians, but only
brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.

Let us fear nothing, God is with us and we shall triumph.
"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own."

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REPORT ON CHINESE WORK.

BY REV. SIMEON GILBERT, D.D., CHAIRMAN.

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