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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV After my consecration as bishop, while the words, " Hold up the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring again the outcast, seek the lost," were still ringing in my ears, the venerable Bishop Kernper said with deep feeling, " My young brother, do not forget these wandering Indians, for Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV After my consecration as bishop, while the words, " Hold up the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring again the outcast, seek the lost," were still ringing in my ears, the venerable Bishop Kernper said with deep feeling, " My young brother, do not forget these wandering Indians, for they, too, can be brought into the fold of Christ." The Rev. Mr. Hoffman, our missionary at Cape Palmas, Africa, came to me a few days after and said, " Before I left Africa, our Christian black men gave me seventy dollars to carry the gospel to heathen in America. I give it to you for Indian Missions." It was the first gift I received for this work and was a prophecy of success. There were at this time, 1859, nearly twenty thousand Indiana in Minnesota, the Ojibways, or Chippewas, the Sioux or Dakotas, and the Winneba- goes. The Ojibways belong to the great Algonquin race which comprised all of the Indians north of the Carolinas, from the Atlantic to the west shore of Lake Superior except the Iroquois, the Six Nations of New York. There is a slight difference in the dialects of the Algonquins. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale of Boston sent me several pages of Eliot's Bible,1 asking me if I knew of any one who could readthem. I returned them translated by Archdeacon Gilfillan, the Superintendent of our Missions, who thoroughly understands the Ojibway language. The Ojibway language is most musical. There are more inflections to the verb than in the Greek, so that the finest shades of meaning can be expressed. 1 See Appendix, page 495, The Indians have a sign language which is understood by all of the tribes. It is made up of arbitrary signs, and it is so impressive that it may be understood at once by one quick of observation. When Captain R.A. Pratt was in charge of the I. Books, History~~Native American, Lights-and-Shadows-of-a-Long-Episcopate~~Henry-Benjamin-Whipple, 999999999, Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate, Henry Benjamin Whipple, 1425486401, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<