"And you really think the shaman can find Indians who will listen to him, and upon whom he can sponge?"
"John," said Father David sadly, "some of the Indians are mighty fine men, but, remember, we have only been teaching them the story of the Bible for a few short years, compared to the countless centuries in which their forefathers believed in idols of their own making, and the spirits of the forest, the sea and the air. I fear that in a crucial test between the old superstitions and the story of Christianity, which so many of our own people will not accept, it would be found that the deep-rooted beliefs and fears would prove, in many, that our teachings had reached but to the fringe of their minds.
"I am getting old, John, and perhaps I look at these things in a different way than I d
