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98 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Thy Kingdom Come!

Great God and Father of the universe,
In our Redeemer’s name we come to Thee.
Fulfil our supplications graciously,
O Thou that savest souls from sin and curse:
The vine which Thy right hand has planted nurse
And grant that to this end we gen’rously
May bring our gifts and pray unceasingly.
All workers strengthen, make each Bible-verse,
Each sermon uttered, mighty to increase
Thy Church, which Christ with His own blood has
bought
When He redeemed the world upon the tree
That human hearts in Him might find sweet peace,
Joy, life, and power, elsewhere vainly sought,
And sing Thy wondrous praise eternally.
H. Osterius.

Reclaiming. Christ’s Heritage.

THE HOMELAND.
£ 1. The Indians.

When the Europeans came to the New World, it
mattered not where they landed, whether in the
North or in the South, they at once came into con-
tact with the original inhabitant of America, the
heathen Indian.

Pagan Menominee Indian.

ORIGIN.

The origin of the American Indians is shrouded
in mystery. Not a few men of science are of the
opinion that their original home was in Eastern
Asia. ‘They have found elements in some Indian

dialects that seem to be much like Japanese, physi-
cal characteristics remind one of the Chinese and’
Japanese, and customs found among them are simi-
lar to those still to be met with among people living
in Mongolia and on the edge of the Desert of Gobi.

An Indian Chief.

Location.

When the white man first came to this country,
he found the Indian everywhere along the coast of
They seem to have occupied all the.

the Atlantic.
territory now comprised in the United States, as
well as Canada on the north and Mexico on the
south.
place in search of game, but, in a general way, every

tribe seems to have had its particular locality. As.

the white men .multiplied, the Indian was pushed’
farther west. Though a few Indians still live on
land reserved by them in New York, North Caro-

lina, and Wisconsin, and though some have become-

mixed with the whites, the vast majority lives west
of the Mississippi. The so-called “Iive Civilized
Tribes” live in Oklahoma;
125,000 and constitute one-third of our Indian
population. Arizona and New Mexico have an
Indian population of about 65,000, California and

South Dakota have each approximately 25,000
Indians, and the remaining 100,000 are found scat--

They moved about freely from place to:

they number over