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Show the improvement of those from whom they took the soil, as the Indium they found there had taken it fmm the Bkrselings, or whatever other name we may give to the races that owned the soil before Moiuan and Pequot and B tt. There was one, however, who did not foget; one who, = d i n g the fnct t+t it is well for the world that Bevagery should be supplanted h civilization, reeo zed also the duty that the conqueror owe to the conquered. fohn Eliot is usuary described as i misaionar Our f-o rep-nts h ~ mas p d i n g t o the Indians on the banks of the ChaX&. He taught, however, more than theology. He . taught the red men how to fence their fields and to dmin their swamps. He taught the women to use the qiinning wheel. The mying Indians' settlement at Nat~ck was laid out in an orderly fashion with three l%g streets, with a piece of groundfor each family. It is interesting to remember that a hundred years before any printer in Ameriea had printed a Bible in the English Ian e Eliot's Indian Bible had been printed (1663) by S a g e l Green and ~ a rma d u g y o h n s oat~ C ambridge. As the first die tinctly Amenean flag, the first emblem of Amencan prowess in war was raised in Massachusetts, so the first American triumph of peace-the first Bible--was not merely printed from a Massachusetts press, but in the now extinct Massachusetts (M~hleaq.)? uage. The a p~not Emerson and Ohanning was eatly too, abroad in Maasaehusetta for i t i smr d e d that oneof Eliot's ~ndiancon~gatio~interm~bitmedw iththeqnes&: 'Why does God punish in hell forever?. an doth notao, but after a time leta them out of prison agam, and if they re ent inhell, why willnot God let them out agaiq7' The work o John Eliot and iis fellow-workers may seem as words written la water. Nonantum and Natick stand for Maasaehusetts induatry rather than for Mohican literature. There ere, I believe, hut three copies of the first edition now in existence of the 'UpBiblum God' of Eliot The race for which that monu-mental work was written hss vanished. Their very 1 has cend to have a meanmug. Yet the spirit of our first great teacher of= dims hss not paased. It lived in the spirit of He Dawes, of Mrsachuaetta It kindled in the rest heart of Harvard's &rat prayeent when our Massachusetts unive*ty k t belt out the lamp of .educat~on to the people of Cuba. It live8 in the devoted men and women who ~n Porto Rico, in Cuba, in the Philippines in O b i as well as among the men of our own western plains, have builtppon thelvictorieof war the victories of pace. The negro may not be s. citizen in South Carolina, hut the Indian ia a citrzen in South Dakota. To you whoae lives are spent as Eliot's was spent in the noble work of the American savage for American citizenship, Massachusetts has a double%?e%T The field of your work ie no longer'within our borders. To the student of prima of teehnieal, of classical education our scholars may yet have something to teacK? To you, the teachers of the Indk,.we come to learn.. To you, strugglingwitha tsak of which,we in the Eht of to-day know nothing, we offer the bays that so become the brows of faithful s e ~ c e . No work can be more honorable in princi le, nor can its value be messured by mere material results. Leonidas was defea&and killed and the Kentishmen were crushed b Richard Plantagenet, but the free republics of Greece and the free Parliar ment of d r a t Britain were built u on the fo~~~da t iofu tsh ase failure%. 80 the rewards of our work may seem smae and the results'perhaps ephemed, if not dia-couragiug, gut remember it counts, oh, so muoh, not for themere numberof red men of this or that tribe weaned born savagery to civilization, but for the general uplift of downtrodden humanity. It is the poet of one of the weaker ram, the hlackraae, not the red me-it ia Pan1 Laurence Dnnbar who says of thoae who labor nobly, but sometime8 with mall material results, sometimes in vain- The man who is stron to nght his e h t , And whose will no krce oan daunt,. While the truth is truth and the right aright, btheman that the ages want. Hema fail or MI in yn defeat, But ge hw not fled t e st& And the homo£ earth shall Allmme meet For the oerfme of his life. h'eeting.-Dr. A. E. Winship.-We welcome you on the strength of what New England and Boston have done for the Indians ever since the white man trod them shores. We appeal to the past in the welcome we offer to-day. It is a faet that this city, this Stste, and New England have stood by the Indian aad have stood for the education of the Indian when it took some courage to do so. It is for such raasons aa these that we welcome you here to-day; and in doing so, I rejoice in the fact that |
