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168 poor estimate of the great work done at that time by its servants. Well did Dr. Frank Gunsaulus say:

""Marcus Whitman was more to the ulterior Northwest than John Harvard has ever been to the Northeast of our common country.""

Two names which shine brightest upon the pages of English history are Dr. Robert Livingstone and Dr. John McKenzie, both missionaries, and both poor men. Their eminent services were along much the same lines as those of Dr. Whitman—services to the whole people and the nation. Dr. McKenzie made three trips to London before he could persuade the English authorities to plant their flag over Bechuanaland, the flower and wealth of all South Africa. But how England and English people have ever since loved to do honor to both these noble men! Dr. Whitman, by his eminent and heroic service, laid the American people under as great a debt of gratitude, and I simply point to facts already narrated to sustain that position. Have the people of the United States done their simple duty to its noble martyrs?

As to the benefits from the missionaries to the Indians themselves eternity alone will reveal how little or how much good was conferred. The