“Thus it will appear that we have placed and kept the Bible in the fore front of our work. It has been evangelization first, and civilization following along with it. This, it seems to us, is the true order. The civilization and the grand unification of the world is to be accomplished through faith in Christ. Hence it is written: ‘For it pleased God that in Him should all fullness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things to Himself.””
Quotes by Stephen Return Riggs
“That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.””
Tah Koo Wah Kan; Or, the Gospel Among the Dakotas
Stephen Return RiggsStephen Return Riggs was a dedicated Christian missionary and linguist who devoted his life to the Dakota people in the 19th century. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, he began his missionary work in 1837 a...