e as ward politicians.
It has been well said that such a Bureau is no more fitted to lead
these people aright than Pharaoh was to lead the Israelites out of
their house of bondage.

To show how even some good men fail to comprehend the situation is
evidenced by the proposed "Morgan Bill," which in its practical
working would give the Indian Agent--already a despot--even more
power than before. By that bill he is made chief Judge, with two
Indians as associate Judges; and the agent is given power to select
the jurors when a jury is demanded. What a travesty of justice, to
make the present agent a judge and give him power to select the jury.
With such a bill the friend of the Indian may well say: Oh Lord, how
long! We must demand that all Indians, whether on the reservations or
not, shall be given full protection of righteous laws, and that the
tyrannical methods of the past shall forever cease.

But, with the solid ground of the Dawes bill beneath, and the further
protection of the judiciary certain to be given at no distant day, he
needs, more than all else besides, the Christian school and the
Christian church. He now has "Land." If we are earnest and persistent
he will soon have "Law." But, most of all, does he need "Light," and
that light which is from above. All the laws we may enact the next
hundred years will not change the character of a single Indian. To a
considerable extent he is a superstitious pagan still. He needs Jesus
Christ. He needs to learn the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of man. As it is a part of the Indian man's religious belief that his
god does not want him to work and he will be punished if he does, it
is especially necessary to touch his religious nature first. When he
accepts the Christian's God, then he will be ready to go to work for
himself. The taking up of the hoe and the spade is his first
confession of faith. What has already been accomplished through the
new laws giving him his civil rights, puts an added responsibility
upon the church. It is the Indian's last chance. Our further neglect
is his certain death. Shall we leave him with his "Land and Law"
without God? Do we realize that we have lived with these original
owners of our soil for more than two and one-half centuries, and yet,
today, there are sixty tribes who have no knowledge of Jesus the
Christ? Shall we allow longer such a stain? I know well the pressure
of various claims in religious work at home and abroad, but