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[Trasport H. <hep...@xi...>]

Nary work is
their only
hope. A single one of these new towns, scarcely half-a-dozen years old,
has had already more
than a hundred men shot in it, and this awful work still goes on. This
marvelously rich mineral region
is sure to be filled in the near future with these mining towns, and
unless the Christian work keeps pace with this kind of growth, this
large territory will become notorious
for bloody scenes as no portion of our land has ever been. Now is the
time to preempt the country for Christ, by planting at strategic points
the church and the Christian school, and through them to send forth to
every part the pure, restraining and elevating influences of the
gospel. God's call to us to do this
work is loud and clear. Can we be faithful to Him and refuse to obey? *
* * * * THE INDIANS. There are 260,000 Indians

in this country. Compared with our great fields in the South, this is
small. But there is an emphasis on this work which is not made by
figures. Those who were native to this land have been made

foreigners. Those who were the first to receive missionary work here,
and who

responded as readily as any heathen

people ever did, are still largely pagans. While one Christian has been
telling the Indians the story of the gospel, another calling himself a
Christian
has been shooting them. They have not yet had a full chance to learn
what Christianity is. From place to place they have been pushed so that
they have not had time to build their altars to the true God. We have
wronged