GUeekly gbemawa American
vTT' MAY 13, 1910. NO. 44
JVev. Edward Marsden
OF METLAKATLA, -ALASKA,.
ADDRESSES THE SCHOOL.
My Friends : I am very glad to be
with you at this hour. I came down
here from Portland a little while ago to
see you. I thought even if I could
just see the school, and just see you
walking around about the grounds I
would be perfectly satisfied. I would
like to spend several days with you, but
I am sorry that it is impossible.
It is now about twenty years since I
saw the school and made aquaintance
with it; at that time I was making my
way through an Eastern. College. At
that time Portland was the steamship
center so that it gave me a chance to run
down this way for an hour. There were
not so many buildings then as today,
since then I have felt the efforts of the
school with a great deal of interest and 1
have noticed its progress and the gootl
work it has done for my rae 1 am
not a white idmi, 1 uw a native (.f thi
continent. I pride myself in being an
Ameiican and I have always trhd my
hest tu be true t myself and to be true
to the country in which 1 live. Let me
say to you, my friends, that you have so
many opportunities today that I did
not have, say twenty years ago.
The course of traning that you are
receiving here is an excellent course.
The school gives one of the best educa
tional opportunities that can be given
an Indian boy and an Indian girl.
Though many things that I learned
years ag- I have forgotten, some of my
arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, calcu
lus, and other studies, yet the cdurse of
training, the discipline given me then
have always helped me in my struggles
and undertakings. Even if I have for
gotten these principles and rules the
things that the teacher wanted me to
learn, still they are the things that are
helping me today, so the course of train
ing that you are receiving today, so far
as I have learned and have seen, is an
excellent one. Today your very best
training and interests should not only
be for yourselves, but for your people.
There are so many troubles to beset us.
We have to face so many people outside
of the schools that seem to think that the
) ndian Schools are not doing very good
work. Yesterday I fell i to a heated diS'
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