and annuities if he refuses to send to the Government school. The
vote recently passed at the General Association of Congregational
Churches in South Dakota ought to be taken up and echoed through the
land, protesting against the assumption, by the Administration, of
the right to control our missionary operations, dictating what pupils
may attend our schools, or what language may be used in them.

In conclusion, let us gird ourselves anew for the struggle that is
before us, to fight the enemies of Protestant Christianity,
entrenched as they are in our Government, the Indian ring, the cattle
kings, the land grabbers and the thousands whose selfish interest it
is to keep the Indian ignorant. This is no holiday affair; it means
earnest, determined work. We must give the Indian the Gospel of the
Son of God as his 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