After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.