The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1907-01 - 1907-02

              The Word Carrier
of SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
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VOLUME XXXVI.
HELPING THE RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG.
NUMBER 1
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1907
THIRTY CENTS PER YEAR.
Our   Platform.
For Indians we want American Education ! We
want American Homes ! We want American Rights !
The result of which is American Citizenship! And
the Gospel is the power of their Salvation!
A Faithful Missionary Gone.
Rev. Myron Eells, D. D., was missionary
for many years to the Indians on Puget Sound.
In his recent sudden death the American Mis-
sionary Association has lost a most faithful
worker. For many years Dr; Eells has patiently traveled up and down Skokomish River, and
Hood's Canal, and all around PUget Sound.
His life has many times been endangered by
storm' on the sound, by high waters in the
and by wild beasts in tbe forests. It
seemed to make any difference to Dr.
whether it was day or night, he traveled
ic same. Last summer the writer met
Us at an abandoned cabin of a lumber man
woods of the Skokomish valley. There
a sunday School and preaching service.
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there were several books of Dr. Eells' own writing.    He was a voluminous writer.
The last years of Dr. Eells' Indian mission
work were discouraging. The Indians had been
diverted by a mystical craze of their own invention called the shaker religion, very different
from the historical shaker. This was a very
unhistorical kind of shaker, the Indian's own
kind of shakerism. There were signs that this
craze was dying out. But in the meanwhile
the Indians were not appreciating the patient
work that Dr. Eells had been doing for them.
And Dr. Eells' time was very largely taken with
ministering to the white people who are rapidly settling the land, those wonderful Puget
Sound shores whicU are lands with a great future. The steam boat companies appreciated
Dr. Eells' self-sacrificing life and gave him free
transportation. Now those Shokomish Indians
have lost the best friend they ever had. Will
this be the end of American Missionary Association work in that land? F. B. Riggs.
That afternoon he rode his jogging pony further up the valleyr, and in the evening was down
the valley below his forenoon appointment, and
held a song and prayer service at the house of
one of the settlers. That day's work was all
with t he white settlers of the Skokomish valley.
In the evening song service we sang English
and German. Dr. Eells sang for us some of
the smigs he had composed in the Chinook Indian i.uiguage, and we visitors from the land
of the Dakota Indians sang some Dakota hymns.
At about eleven o'clock that night Dr. Eells
jogge>l homeward through the dark forest. The
next day we followed over tbe same road and
it wa> so dark in the bright day as to be awe-
inspiring. The road twisted about between
rocks, and the pine trees were three hundred feet
high mi each side, the giant cedars taller. We
were often near the wall of the valley which is
man}- hundred fret high and almost perpendicular. Out of that valley wall there rushed
great -prings of water that crossed our road and
roared away in tlie forest to join the Skokomish
Eiver. We had for several days before been
admiring tbe forests and waters of the Puget
Sound region. It was all very wonderfully
enchanting to us who live iu the dry and treeless
Dakotas, but tlie Skokomish valley was the
most enchanting of all. Presently the valley
widened and in some broad clearings were meadows and cultivated fields. Then the tide water
from that strangely long and narrow inlet of
Puget Sound, known as Hood's canal, backed
up into the river. There we crossed on a.bridge
which was on th« high way over to a fashionable mountain resort. Then we were on the
old Skokomish Indian reservation, and about
two miles down the west bank of the river Dr.
Eells lived. There had been a Government
Agency which was abandoned. The Government buildings were turned over to the Indians.
That made an Indian village of the old agency.
The government fields, gardens and orchards
were divided to Indians. Dr. Eells and his
Sunily occupied one of the old agency build-
rags, and with it they had a large barn, garden
and orchard. We will never forget the wonderful fruit we saw and ate there. We enjoyed
a very delightful dinner as guests of Dr. and
■Mrs. Eells and their youngest son Roy. The
son Roy was named from Dr. Joseph Roy in
memory of his visit to Skokomish when that
now promising young man was an infant.
Another of Dr. Eells' sons was earning his way
through Whitman College, of which institution
"v- Eells was an honored trustee. Another son
w,as bearing a claim in the Skokomish valley
About seven miles above the old home. Dr.
ells' study room was a most interesting muse-
Um of Indian curios.    On the library shelves
Indian Progress.
Dr. Myron Eells in the conclusion of his book
"Ten Years Missionary Work at Skokomish"
says: "Dr. H. J. Minthorne, superintendent of
the Indian Training School at Forest Grove,
Oregon, once remarked to me, 'that in the civilization of Indians, they often went forward
and then backward; but that each time they
went backward it was not quite so far as the
previous time, and that each time they went
forward it was an advance on any previous effort.' I have found the same to be true. They
seem to rise much as the tide does when the
waves are rolling—a surge upward and then
back; but careful observation shows that the
tide is rising."
What the Indians are Thinking
These letters, which have been translated
from the Dakota, will show of what the Indian Christians are thinking in their effort
to attain righteousness, and how they are
striving to bring the Kingdom of God to
those who  have  it not.
A  LETTER
I wish to say something about one thing. 1
have been a member of a church for eight years,
and I have prayed to God to give me strength
in some ways. And now He has brought me
safe to another year so I have thanked God for
it, and have asked Him to keep on helping me.
Now there are many men who like church but
they will go and gamble at- the same time. If.
doing this is not right, please see to it. For my
part I do not think it is right to be a church
member and then gamble at the same time.
Cheyenne Agency, S. D. GEORGE EaGLEBEAR.
CHRISTMAS
We people were waiting for something,
and at last it came to us and we were all
glad of it, and that is the celebration of
Christ's birth, Christmas. So all those who
were waiting for Christmas ought to be converted. We live quite a distance from the
church, still we were present at the Christmas
tree. As we entered the church, we saw
that the tree was just full of presents, and it
seems as though that all those presents were
for Christ. There were some apples hung on
the tree and it looked very pretty. All the
children were glad to see them. And when
every body was in we began by singing a song,
and after that Henry Kennedy led in prayer.
And after the prayer the following made remarks: Sam Ownthepipe, Andrew Broken,
James Melbourne, Crazybull, Samuel Black-
duck, Medicine Beartrack and Redboy. A song
was then sung, then the presents and apples
were distributed. It was eleven o'clock when
all the presents were given out. For the closing hymn we sang "God be with you till we
meet again," then we all went home.
Poplar, Mont. JOSEPH W.   TAYLOR.
YOUNG  MEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION
What is it'? The Father, Son and Holy
Ghost, these three, but there is one God.
Y. M. C. A. members are those that believe and
love this one God. The body, mind, soul and
the care of ones' self, strengthens this young
men's association. Their work is large, good
and strong so anybody will be strengthened by
it. The one God gives them strength and
showers His Holy Spirit on them. So they
go and preach about love, joy, peace and goodness. They go out and preach seeking those
that are lost by evil works, aud help those that
are weak. So it is au association for saving
souls. So those who are members must try
and make it stronger.
There are many yroung men in Rosebud, but
who will go to work and help them? We are
members of the Y. M. C. A. It is hard to work
among them but still Jesus will give us power
to help them to be saved. We have three divisions of Y. M. C. A. here, and we now and then
hold a union meeting for the purpose of asking
God for new courage. There are many hinderances, but we are working bravely for Him,
for it will please Jesus to see us suffer for the
sake of Him. So you three divisions must get
more courage. Every young man ought to be
stronger this year then last year. When Jesus
was speaking to his disciples for the last time,
He said, "Go ye iuto all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature." So you are
working for Jesus, preaching, to bring in His
kingdom. H. M. Jones.
Dixon, S. D.
women's missionary society of
presbyterian church
Dear Relatives: I am glad that I have read of
the works of all you women throughout the
country. So I write this letter to you all because as I read your letters it seems as though
I have seen the faces of you all. Last summer at the Mission Meeting held at Yankton
Agency a thougth came into my mind. We
are all workers of the Presbyterian church. In
our work of helping missionaries we must aH
remember each other, help one another, all be
of one mind. This is the only way we can lift
up the work of those that are now preaching
the gospel. We must work and give more
money to that this year than we did last year.
Let us see if we can give $2,000 this year. We
all work for the church so we all ought to be
trusted. When Jesus was on earth, there were
many women who followed Him. And they even
rose up early in the morning to see Jesus' grave
and we have read that the angels told them that
He was risen from the dead. So they went
and told the disciples of Jesus aud other people
that He was risen from the dead. And in this
way we are still telling other people that He is
risen and gone to heaven. So, may all the presidents of the Women's Societies rise up early
in the morning and work for the spreading of
the Gospel with courage. I shake hands with
all you women. Emma 0. Crawford.
Good Will, S. D,       President of Women's Misssionary Union.
MOTHERS   SOCIETY  OF   CHRISTIAN
ENDEAVOR.
One of the questions that was brought forth
was: What shall we do to get children in habit
of going to church? I wish to say a few things
of what I think of the question. Our children
will act as we do at home. Therefore if we
want our chidren to have that good habit, we
are not to say those things nor do those things
that will not be good for them. When a time
comes for a church meeting, we must take them
along with us and have them to behave themselves and teach them to listen to things said
in the meeting. Though they will not understand at first, they will afterwards. This must
be done while they are young so when they get
to be young men and young women they will
appreciate it more. N. S. Jones.