SINGS-AS-HE-WALKS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 25, 1893

"SINGS-AS-HE-WALKS."

At the late meeting of the Lake Mohonk Indian Conference a brother told of a certain little Indian child who used to go toddling about on the grassy prairies of the Dakotas, and as he went he sang. In the morning and all day long his childish voice would be heard caroling forth the weird melodies which seem so dismal to us, but which mean so much to the children of the plains. His mother watched and heard him with delight, and with the poetic instinct which sleeps in every mother's heart, no matter how wild she may be, called the boy "Sings-as-he-walks." That boy is now a minister of the gospel. He travels abroad on the Dakota prairies preaching and singing the gospel to his own people. Did not the mother wisely name him? And would it not be a blessed thing if we could apply the name to more Christians? What a splendid description of a cheerful, hopeful, trustful ambassador of Christ—"Sings-as-he-walks"!—New York Observer.