It was the object of the Montana Industrial School to remove the Indian children from their nomadic conditions and to give them a practical education, with so much of instruction in books as would be of real help to them. The boys were taught farm work and the use of tools, while the girls were trained in sewing, cooking, and other useful employments. At the same time there was constant training in cleanliness, good manners, and right living. The school was fairly successful; and the results would doubtless have been important, could the experiment have gone on for a longer period. In 1891 Mr. Bond withdrew from the school on account of his age, and it was placed in charge of Rev. A.A. Spencer. With the 1st of July, 1895, however, the care of the school was assumed by the national government.
Extended as this chapter has become, it has failed to give anything like an exhaustive statement of the philanthropies of Unitarians. Their charitable activities have been constant and in many directions. This may be seen in the wide-reaching philanthropic interests of Dr. Edward Everett Hale, whose Lend-a-hand Clubs, King's Daughters societies, and kindred movements admirably illustrate the practical side of Unitarianism, its broad humanitarian spirit, its philanthropic and reformatory purpose, and its high ideal of Christian fidelity and service.
[[1]] Memoir, III. 17; one-volume edition, 465.
[[2]] Memoir, III. 61, 62; one-volume edition, 487, 488.
[[3]] Boston Unitarianism, 127.
[[4]] Harvard Graduates, 155.
[[5]] Boston Unitarianism, 253.
[[6]] Elizabeth P. Peabody, Reminiscences of Dr. W.E. Channing, 290.
[[7]] Eber R. Butler, Lend a Hand, October, 1890, V. 681.