The Wichita Daily Eagle

GERONIMO A CONVERT.

Hears a Sermon and Asks to Be Received
Into the Church.

Ponca City, O. T., July 17.—The Courier prints a Lawton story to the effect that Geronimo has become a convert to Christianity. It says:

Bent and broken from the toils of many a chase, bowed neath recollection of many a bloody crime, humiliated by chastising imprisonment in the soldiers' reserve, old Geronimo, the warrior of the plains, the human tiger of the forest, the old time terror of the great broad west, the grim Apache brave, whose ghostly form paraded in the dreams of a thousand expectant frontiersmen in the days of yore; Geronimo of whom the wide world has known and talked, upon whom millions have gazed and turned away to recall his great calendar of crimes—Geronimo has become a Christian.

Last Sunday morning in the tabernacle of medicine, with the Comanches sitting upon the ground on the one side and the Apaches on the other, each tribe with its interpreter standing in the foreground repeating the message of the pale face, a preacher stood and told the wonderful story of love, of the Christ who died for the sins of the world, of how the Indian could have a full and free salvation and pass through death to the real Happy Hunting Ground of the skies.

The sermon closed an invitation was given for sinful men to repent. Geronimo and a dozen of his braves came forward and told their interpreter of how they had learned to love the Christ, and asked to be received into His church.

At 2 o'clock on the same day, in the midst of a multitude of people, the minister sprinkled the clear water over the old chief's head and repeated, "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost," and Geronimo became a Methodist.