Identifier: lifelaborsof00hare (find matches)
Title: The life and labors of Bishop Hare : apostle to the Sioux
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909 Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960
Subjects: Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909 Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Anglican Communion Anglican Communion Missionaries Dakota Indians
Publisher: New York : Sturgis & Walton
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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diate supervision, to which the other schoolsshould be tributary by furnishing their most,promising boys for education as Teachers, Cate-cliists and Missionaries. This plan was carried out, and thus grewup the St. Pauls, St. Marys, St. Johns andHope Indian Boarding Schools, which, undertheir respective heads, have won a deservedlyhigh reputation. St. Pauls Boarding Schoolwas the first venture in this line among theIndians, in Dakota. The last feature of the plan was modifiedlater, when the establishment at the East ofschools for the Indians, like Hampton Institute,offered peculiar advantages in the way of highereducation. It then seemed to be wiser to send outof the Indian country to these schools the pupilswho had proved themselves of most promise andmost likely to develop into teachers and min-isters. 3d. Limitations.—I next realized that, asno man can do everything, I must eliminate frommy plan of work those things wliich it was notabsolutely necessary for me to do, and devote my
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BISHOP HARE ABOUT 1( A PIONEER IN NIOBRARA 56 attention to those things which no one else couldor would do, and to the things most essentialin one holding the position and placed in the con-ditions in which I found myself. There stretched before me vast tracts of wildcountry inhabited by roaming tribes. It was to^.^—be^y duty to explore them and make a way forthe entrance of the Church. There were in thewhole district but five churches and but twodwellings for the missionaries, and not a singleBoarding School. The Missionarj^ Board em-ployed no business agent in the field, and I sawthat I must be a builder of parsonages, schools,and churches. There were but seven clergymenin the mission; I saw that I must seek out, orraise up, more. Obstacles of varied and peculiarnature met the workers at every turn. I sawthat I must be their friend, counselor and com-forter—a real pastor of pastors—if I could be.Large funds would be needed. I was made tofeel that it was left largely to me to r

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