appointed to preach of goodness, mercy, and truth,
and to explain to the people the sayings of a mighty
book which he had given to the fathers, a book that
told how men should live in this world, and said that
a beautiful place in the next would be given those
who are good and true in this. But by and by the
Great Spirit began to whisper to me of the Indians in
the wilderness who knew nothing of the book or the
hope within it, and a longing rose within me to go
and tell them \ but there were ties that held me to
my own people, and I knew not what to do. Death
cut those ties; and in my hour of grief there came
to me a vision of a great bridge far in the west, and
of Indians passing over it, and a voice spoke to me
and bade me go and seek the land of the bridge, for
the Great Spirit had a mission for me there; and I
went forth into the wilderness. I met many tribes
and tarried with them, telling them of God. Many
were evil and treated me harshly, others were kind
and listened. Some loved me and wished me to
abide always in their lodges and be one of them. But
even while they spoke the Great Spirit whispered to
me to go on, and an unrest rose within me, and I
could not stay.
"So the years went by, and I wandered farther and farther to the west, across rivers and deserts, till I reached this tribe; and they said that farther on, toward the land of the Willamettes, a great river flowed through the mountains, and across it was a bridge of stone built by the gods when the world was young. Then I knew that it was the bridge of my vision, and the unrest came back and I arose to go. But the tribe kept me, half as guest and half as pris-
