The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1908-07 - 1908-08

              the Word Carrier
of Santee Normal Training School.
VOLUME XXXVII.
HELPING- THE RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG.
NUMBER 4.
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
JULY-AUGUST, 1908.
THIRTY CENTS PER YEAR.
Our   Platform.
For Indians we want American Education ! We
want American Homes 1 We want American Rights 1
The result of which is American Citizenship! And
the Gospel is the power of God for their Salvation 1
On June 24th occurred the marriage of
Miss Jane Frazier to Mr. George Trudell, of
Santee. The ceremony was performed by
Dr. Riggs, assisted by Rev. Francis Frazier,
father of the bride. The wedding in the Mission chapel, decorated with flowers and potted
plants, with the bride and maids in their white
dresses, and tbe manly looking young men,
made a picture to remember. After the ceremony, the guests to the number of a hundred
and forty, were entertained at tbe parsonage.
The linner. was served under tbe trees in tbe
door-yard. 	
Indian Opinion of Divorce.
y opinion of a man who gets married and
wards gets a divorce and then takes an-
:• wife and yet is considered a good church
,er, is that he is not doing right. It shows
1 hey have not obeyed the commandments
well.   Read in Exodus 20: 14; Matt. 19:
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promise before au audience in church,
then be active church workers.
Henry H. Taylor.
An Indian's Opinion of the Qualifications of a Pastor.
All young men of the Presbyterian, Congregate nal or Episcopal churches who have the
des re to be preachers should have a higher edu-
cat n. If possible they should go to Santee
No'-nial Training School, or some other religious
scb >ol and complete a course in bible study.
If a preacher starts to do his duty, he must
also learn to take care of his home, learn to be
clean and respectable, to be decent around the
bar- and domestic animals.
God has made this world and the things to
use. But sometimes some preachers or teachers
neglect these things. A man who preaches sermons can have a garden to raise potatoes, corn
and -aise some chickens. If he can he should
hav   a milk cow.    These things will help him.
A man must learn to live peacefully with all
men He must be humble, courageous, and
pati nt. He must learu to have self-control
boti: in small and large work.
Missionary workers and preachers must and
ought to watch these things and do them.
Simon J Kirk.
An Indian Parable.
I once heard a story of a man having four
Rons. His desire was to have his four sons live
profitably and prosperously. He advised his
eldest son to go and till the ground near the
water course, and to be industrious in his farm
work. The young man went out, plowed the
field and planted it. When the plants grew up,
they grew rapidly and richly. But tbe son did
not put up fence to keep out the stock and for
that reason cattle and horses ate up the crop.
The next young man was told to work the same
farm, but he went through the same process
ending with as bad results as his brother. So
with the next young man, until the last of the
four, when it was his time to work the farm, the
machines were all rusty, unworthy to be used.
When the man found that his sons were unable to accomplish that which was desired of
them, he was sorrowful because they were unable to work as he had planned. But he could
have avoided this by helping and giving them
instruction and directing them how to plant
and raise good crops on the farm.
This story is like to the missionary work of
the Presbyterian church on Pine Ridge reservation. They have the gospel of Jesus, but there
are these defects which prevent it from increas
ing and from having influence, the Omaha |
dance, women's dance, riding from place to
place with no reason, the desire for liquor, and
the singing of love songs. These are the defects whicli are great hinderances in the work
of the Presbyterian  church in this  country.
The work here is carried on by Joseph Day,
James King, and Archie Siyo, but they have no
special church building in which to have meeting and that is another reason for not doing
good work
In October 18. 1906 when I first arrived here
as a missionary, I found a small buildiug situated at lonely place. Everything was in bad
condition, but yet with some effort I managed
to get a few of the members who were there to
help on iu my work. Some of the members
had joined the Episcopal church because there
was no Presbyterian church building or cemetery. Read Acts 9: 3-4. You members of
Presbyterian churches, I hope you have sympathy with me and hope to remember me in
your prayers. • Frank Fight.
An Indian Student's Essay on the Bible.
The world has been improved and made better in many ways, one way has been by the
Methodist church started by John Wesley. His
followers or church members are called book
worms because they study the bible so much
that they wear out the bible. John Wesley
was a graduate of Oxford University, full of
activity and thoughtful, a man of high education and eloquent in speech. He died at the
age of fifty years.
William Ewart Gladstone a man of great ability and most respected, was another who started
from his boyhood as a book worm. He was
smarter than all the great men of his time, and
in the old age he said, that tbe Holy Bible for
two thousand years had been revised, and men
were trying to destroy it, but it is like a rock
that stands solid in the storms.
Canon Liddon said when we opened the bible
we ought to realize the holy spirit coming into
us, we ought to feel as though we were in a
temple, not made of stone, but of the words of
God. Let us go into this temple, that we may
realize and perhaps find something new in a
new place.
Paul, the greatest of all missionaries, says
that every scripture which is inspired of God is
also profitable for instruction in righteousness
that the man of God may be complete.
General Grant another great man, said tbe
bible is the power by which the world has
gained in higher knowledge and civilization.
Indian people, if you have a desire for higher
ways of living you must get it through the
bible. If you are in sorrow or with a burden
of sin, remember the words of P. L. Moody
when he said, My thoughts failed me thousands
of times, but this book has not failed me even
once.
Who is the greatest of the presidents ? During the civil war in Lincoln's presidency, the
president went to the war department, and
came back with bowed head, sorrowful because
of the many deaths. He took a bible and read
in tbe book of Job and there found great comfort and joy.
There are many great men in the world who
have tbe bible as the greatest help in their
lives. I want to remind you how these men
take the bible for help. More people would
find a great help from the bible, if they would
take up bible study, because they are men who
should make the world better. Let us young
men try and lift our work and our people to a
higher standard. Stephen Jones.
Southwest Indian Conference
The second annual meeting of the Southwest
Indian Conference adjourned at Flagstaff, Arizona, on July 16, after a week of profitable discussion.
More than sixty men and woman who have
given their lives to the promotion of the spirit
ual and temporal welfare of the Indians, were
present. The well-planned program was carried out almost in its entirety, though some of
the friends found it necessary to send their papers to be read.
Devotional exercises for the mornings were
conducted by Mr. John Butler, of Tuba, Arizona, who gave helpful studies on the Shepherd
Psalm. The Rev. J. B. Epp, of Oraibi, had
charge of the evening devotions and invited
various members of the conference to lead on
different evenings. Rev. F. G. Mitchell spoke
daily on the Epistle to the Hebrews.
At the Conference in 1907 a committee had
been appointed to explore the unevangelized
portions of this section of the country, and Mr.
John Butler,of Tuba, Arizona; Rev. A. Black,
Fort Defiance, Arizona; Rev. L. P. Brink, of
Tohatchi, New Mexico; Mr. W. R. Johnson, of
Tolchaco, Arizona, and Rev. Charles Brodhead,
of Laguna, New Mexico, brought in reports
showing the need of additional workers among
the inhabitants. Among the Navajos alone
there is an urgent call for tbe opening of at least
eight new stations. It is difficult for the mind
to really comprehend the needs of the vast territory to be covered and the rapidly increasing
number of people who are yet untouched by
any civilizing or evangeliziDg influence.
The question of language study created considerable discussion, and the unanimous opinion of experienced missionaries was that the
necessity of speaking to the Indian in the vernacular is very urgent. Competant interpreters are not easily procured, and it is frequently very unsatisfactory to attempt the conveyance through an interpreter, of ideas that are
often entirely alien, not only to his personal religious conceptions, but even to his mental processes. It was found that the alphabet adopted for the Navajos, Hopis and Zunis needed
no change for use by the Apaches, aud that the
work that had been done for the Pimas and the
Papagoes fitted into that of the Language Unification Committee. Parts of Scripture have
been translated into some of the various
tongues, and the Rev. L. P. Brink has published a collection of twelve hymns translated into Navajo. Some of these were sung at
the Conference.
We were favored by the presence, as a member, of Rev. Dr. Chas. H. Cook, who has been
among the Pimas for thirty-eight years and has
established several Christian churches among
them. His long experience and his joyful
faith were an inspiration to those who had
not been so long in tbe work, and gave great
weight to his wise advice and helpful suggestions.
The work of women was spoken of by Mrs.
John Butler, of Tuba, and a paper was read
from Miss Mary McLean, of Torreva. All were
touched by the simply told story of Miss Maria
Schrimer, who lives alone among the Hopis of
Hotevilla, the only white person among them.
She enters into their lives and strives in every
way to emulate the example of Him who "for
our sakes became poor."
Seven different denominations were represented by the workers present: Presbyterian,
Christian Reform, Mennonite, Baptist, Lutheran, Congregational, and Methodist Protestant.
The workers labor among seven different
tribes: The Navajos, the Hopis, the Zunis, the
Lagunas, the Apaches, the Pimas and the Papagoes.
The magnitude and importance of the work
in hand entirely overshadowed any denominational differences, and all these ambassadors of
the Great King were indeed one in the spirit of
service all through the Conference.—Constance
Field, in tbe Indian's Friend.