Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1910 — No Missionary Cash for the Indians [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

No Missionary Cash for the Indians

MUSKOGEE, Okla. —The Methodist church in Oklahoma has decided upon a new policy relative to religious work among the Indians. At a meeting here of the executive board of the church it was decided to combine all of the five civilised tribes. Creeks, Cherokees. Chlckaaaws, Choctaws and Seminoles. in one district, under the supervision of one presiding elder, and to reauire the Indians to support their own pastors without the aid of foreign missionary money. ft was al ßo decided to request the bishop to transfer every English-

speaking congregation of Indians to some white charge. This is for the purpose of getting the Indians under a white pastor in order that educar tlonal as well. as religious work may be carried on. The old idea of teaching a white missionary to speak the Indian tongue and sending him among the Indians to preach In their own language is to be abandoned. . It was pointed out that, under the state government, the Indian and the white man are the same socially and politically, that the state schools are being extended into every Indian settlement, and that the Indian children everywhere are being taught English. It is expected that other religious organisations will take the same step, it being practically foroed upon them by the new conditions arising from the adoption of state government aad state schools.