NO SECOND HAND THOUGHT.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 12

NO SECOND HAND THOUGHT.

The time was in the fifties of the last century; the place, Cincinnati,. U.S.A., at a meeting of the Presbytery ] which was devoted to the cause ol (missions. The moderator had made" a long; dull, complacent address. At the end, he introduced a Sioux chief-j tain, as representing, a people sorely; in need of missionary attention. The I Indian, who had listened very politely, said: — . "My people are not like your peo- . pie. You have books. You listen to what men said who lived long- ago and : far away. ... . "You see what they saw. You do 1 what they did. You hear what they ( heard. You think what they thought, My people cannot do this. 'We cannot , read. j "We can only see with our own i oyes and hear with our own ears, and think with our own minds." ,