profane and sacrilegious speech! In our own tongue His name was
not spoken aloud, even with utmost reverence, much less lightly or
irreverently.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion
we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of
spiritual things, while seeking only the material. They bought and
sold everything: time, labor, personal independence, the love of
woman, and even the ministrations of their holy faith! The lust
for money, power, and conquest so characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon
race did not escape moral condemnation at the hands of his
untutored judge, nor did he fail to contrast this conspicuous trait
of the dominant race with the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus.

He might in time come to recognize that the drunkards and
licentious among white men, with whom he too frequently came in
contact, were condemned by the white man's religion as well,
and must not be held to discredit it. But it was not so easy to
overlook or to excuse national bad faith. When distinguished
emissaries from the Father at Washington, some of them ministers of
the gospel and even bishops, came to the Indian nations, and
pledged to them in solemn treaty the national honor, with prayer
and mention of their God; and when such treaties, so made, were
promptly and shamelessly broken, is it strange that the action
should arouse not only anger, but contempt? The historians of the
white race admit that the Indian was never the first to repudiate
his oath.

It is my personal belief, after thirty-five years' experience
of it, that there is no such thing as "Christian civilization." I