The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1914-11 - 1914-12

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The Word carrier
of Santee Normal Training school.
VOLUME XLIII'
HELPING THE RIGHT, EXPOSING THE WRONG.
NUMBER 6
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1914
THIRTY CENTS PER YEAR
Our   Platform
For Indians we want American Education! We need
American Homes! We want American Rights! The result
0fwhich is American Citizenship! And the Gospel is the
Power of God for their Salvation !
Founder's Day
Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Riggs are in Claremont,
California for the winter months, and so could
not be present on December sixth, which as the
seventy-seventh birthday of Dr. Riggs was held
in memory at Sautee as Pounder's Day.
Though they were many days journey distant
from us, in thought they were very near. The
good wishes of many at Santee were continually
going out to them during the day, and we knew
that their thoughts were also especially with us
ou that day.
At supper time the large school dining room
was alight with one hundred eighteen little
caudles shining from the centers of as many
little frosted cakes at the places of pupils and
teaehers.
■Jlr. Fred Riggs spoke briefly of our custom
of -elebrating this day, the birthday of Dr.
h'ii %s; to d") him honor as founder ofthe Santee school, and that while we were outwardly
honoring him in this visible way there was an
inner honor which we should be always striving toward in the firm foundation of good character in our own lives.
In the evening service Mr. Williamson took
as his subject the habit of forethought, and with
especial reference to the work of Dr. Riggs,
pointed out the forward look as an essential
element in Christian character.
Taking as a text Gen. 41: 33, Joseph is presented as one who has acquired this habit. His
prompt advice to Pharaoh is to "Look out a
man discreet and wise,—that the land perish
not through the famine." Spite of all Joseph
lia< suffered at the hands of the Egyptians, his
fn>t thought on learning of the coming famine
is how to prepare for the emergency and save
the people. He could not have di-pamed that
Pharaoh would appoint him to high office.
Thus he showed the finest Christian spirit.
And the forward look is an essential part of
that, Christian spirit.
Hod reveals himself to us as a God of forethought. We read much about his purpose.
We have learned to talk about the "plan" of
salvation. God called Abraham and prepared
apople. Through the spread of Greek language and culture, Jewish religious conceptions
and Roman dominion, God opened the way for
the spread of the Gospel of Jesus.
And Jesus, like his Father, was ever looking
forward. He himself is a sower who is sowing the seed of the Kingdom. He chooses twelve
young men and trains them to go on with the
work which he is beginning,
Jesus' disciples today must acquire this habit.
They must learn to prepare for the material
needs of the coming days, parents must look
out for the coming needs of their children. We
must ask ourselves what sort of days are coming for them. How may we prepare them for
the hard things of life? We do not want them
to be poor and starving. They must learn to
make a living. We do not want thein to be
ignorant and despised. We must give them
good teaching.
We have been celebrating Founder's Day.
We remember Dr. Riggs and wish him a happy
birthday. I have been thinking of the forty
four years he has spent iu this work and can
see that his success is largely due to the'faet that
he has acquired the faculty of looking ahead.
When this school was firs! started, the early
missionaries were asking, "How will the Indian
make a liviug?" The old hunting grounds were
being taken. The buffalos were being killed off.
Dr. Riggs began to plan for them. He said we
must teach them how to farm aud raise cattle and
to work at the trades. So by his planning this
school began to grow.    Aud this was one of the
Goes Ahead, the Indian Elijah
Medicixje Man Converted-See Article on 2d page.
first manual training schools in all the country.
But Dr. Riggs saw that training the hands
and mind was not enough. Many ludian schools
were being founded and many people said "Give
the Indian an education aud he will be all
right". But it was evident to the founder of
this school that education alone would not save
the Indiau. Their youth would need to be built
up ill Christian character. So he endeavored
more and more to make that the ruling purpose of the school, and he is planning still
more for the coming needs of this people. As
the older missionaries and native pastors pass
away there will be need of trained and consecrated men and women to take up the wox-k and
feed the souls of the people. If no one is ready
to take up this work, there will be a spiritual
famine which will be more destructive than the
kind for which Joseph prepared. Joseph with
a clear sense of the coming need advised Pharaoh to look out a man wise and discreet lest the
j land perish. So now it is a matter of Christian
forethought to be looking out wise and discreet
young men and women and preparing them to
act as the spiritual leaders and shepherds of
their people- And this is the purpose that engrosses Dr. Riggs' thought at the present time.
Plans for the new Bible Department and the
new building which will make this work possible are ever in his mind.
We must all try to acquire this habit. It is
one of the marks of a Christian. It is one way
of following our Master.
Joseph was strangely rewarded for his exercise of unselfish forethought in the interest of
the Egyptian people. His aged father and the
whole family were saved from perishing by
starvation. And it was God's forethought and
work by which this reward was brought about.
And God will never fail to reward those who plan
and labor to bring blessing to their fellowinen.
A Home Wedding
The marriage of Miss Mary Walker Brave to
Mr. John Waldron Frazier of Santee, Nebraska, was solemnized at the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Brave of Lower
Brule Reservation, near Oacoma, South Dakota,
on Wednesday, morning the Twenty-third day
of September, at eleven thirty o'clock, the Rt.
Rev. GeOrge Biller, Jr., Bishop ofthe Episcopal
Church of South Dakota performing the ceremony.
Over two hundred invited guests were present
and witnessed the ceremony, this company being composed of tbe Rev. and Mrs. Albert
Frazier, of Santee, parents of the groom, and
practically all the Indian people of the Reservation and many of the white people of the
surrounding country, including citizens from
Pierre, Chamberlain, Oacoma and Reliance.
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Brave was
not large enough to accomodate the great number of assembled guests so it became necessary
for the ceremony to be held outside on the lawn
underneath the floating folds of the American
flag.
The music, well selected, was nicely rendered
by Mrs. Alex Brave aud Miss Grace Frazier.
At the appointed hour, the bridal party,
which consisted of the Misses Jessie Frazier
of Niobrara, Neb. and Rose La Pointe, of
Dixon, So. Dak.; Messex-s. Samuel Frazier of
Niobrara, Neb. James Herman of Herrick, So.
Dak., appeared and marched to the strains of
Mendellsohn's wedding march to the place prepared for the ceremony beneath the banner, the
bride leaning on her father's arm coming last
in the procession.
After the ceremony came the congratulations
of the many invited guests who wished the
happy young couple a long and prosperous married life. The wedding gifts were many and
useful.
At the close of the congratulations Mr. Brave
invited the guests to take their places upon the
lawn and in a few words, reminded them that
this was a great and much appreciated occasion,
both by himself and family, and hoped also for
the people assembled that they were honored by
haviug among them two of the great men of the
State, namely, the Rt. Rev. George Biller, Jr.,
Bishop of South Dakota, and tbe Hon. Frank
M. Byrne, Governor of the State. Mr. Brave
announced that those present would have the
pleasure of hearing these distinguished men at
the close of the program.
They were then invited to partake of the
bountiful luncheon which was in readiness.
Tbe following px-ogram was then rendered :
Song The Star Spangled Banner, by all.
Prayer Rev. Perry, of Oacoma, So. Dak.
Address Bishop Biller, of Sioux Falls, So. Dak.
Address ...„Gov. Byrne, of Pierre, So, Dak.
Song America, by all.
Benediction.. Rev. Walker, of Lower Brule, So. Dak.
An Indian's Desire for Missionary Service
There may be a chance for me to do some
wox-k among the Sac and Fox Indians at Tama,
Iowa. There are only three hundred and sixty
of these Indians but of this number only three
are know as Christians after twenty years of
missionary effort by the United Presbyterians.
Though the missionaries have given faithful
patieut service, the devil is also at work and
has a fine grip ou these miserable Indians.
Tbe Wisconsin Indians are also ueeding particular help. Beer and whiskey have power
among them. There can be uo help for them
except through the teaching of Jesus Christ to
their little children for by this way only will
any number of the parents be brought to a
knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Cato Sells is the first Commissioner of Indian Affairs to make use of Section 2087 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States which empowers him to suspend payments to Indians
when he believes there are intoxicating liquors
within convenient reach.
Commissioner Sells has just directed the
Superintendent of the Osage reservation in
Oklahoma to suspend the December payment
of several hundred thousand dollars unless be
is satisfactorily assured by the chiefs and head
men of tbe tribe aud the county and town officers, also the leading citizens of Pawhuska,
that the law against selling liquor to Indians
or introducing same into Indian country is
strictly enforced.
There has been gross violation of the liquor
law in the Osage coui-try.
Entered as Swond Class Matter, November 9, 1908,
at tbe Post Office at Santee, Nebraska, under
the act of March 3. 1879.