carry it on. Let
me add a word with regard to the whole Indian problem. It is not the
problem I presented to you two years ago; it has changed in the two years,
and, thank God, it will change in two years more, if we do the work we
ought to. Do we realize that our Indians are getting beyond the wild life?
Forty thousand Indian people have come out of the tepee life into little
homes that these Indian men have built for themselves, taking their people
forward toward Christ. We talk of the Indian in his paint and blanket,
forgetting that he is coming forth into life. His game is gone, his wild
roving life is gone, his reservation is going. They understand their
position; the old life is back of them forever. What is before them? Old
Gall showed a scar reaching from his shoulder to his hip, and said: 'A
white man gave me that; 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 c