The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-11-24
LECTURES BY REV. \. 4. spAULDING
Early Oregon sEiSSi0ns-..Their Ina
pOrtRuce fn Securing the Conn
try 60 Americans.
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WORK, ana ne knew the only motive pow
er that would move them to il. Tha
same power thst-separated, for the frs
Imoment, the never before separated Eter
nal Father and Son. as they saw thei
new made world, with its human race
sinking under the heavy chains of th'
Prince of Death, and which raised th,
beloved Son to the Cross on Calvary,
complete ransom for the race; the sam,
power that armed the mothors and wive
on board the May Flower" with suill
eient fortitude to land on the unknown
uninhabned wilds of the Northeast coas
of New England and cheerinlly to stel
on shore amid the SHOWS of winter, held
ing out to the wild natives the div,
branch of salvation the power that mal,
the nine newly married wives of the frs
| band of missionaries to the Sandwich Is
lands, willing and even happy TO forsak,
father and mother. houses and lands, aud
TO tusn their backs forever upon weeping
pareuts, upon home and the .happies
country in the world, aud to enter upor
a sea voyage around Cape Horn, Of Is,
600 miles, to take up their abode for Iii,
on the dark heathen shores Of those Is
lands, destitute of every comfort, to be
exposed every day to hardships and re
Voting scenes, To be met with only on
the shores of Caunihalism and pagan
Idespotism; a power not found in gold
but contained in those last words Of tht
Savior, $50 We into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature"
Mark the hand of G od in bringing for
ward his agents, In 1882 the Flat Head
and Nez Perces Indians, having received
some ideas of God from gentlemen Of
the Hudson Bay Company, aud having
committed FIVE of their young men Ii
that company to be by them taken acres.
the Rocky Mountains and committed tc
the school of those self. devoted excellent
men, Messrs. Jones and Cochran. of the
Church Missionary Society at the Selkirk
settlement of the Lakes. still felt, As hey
expressed it, every hungry for more 81
Ccd's Book, !" and resolved TO send men
&c tie rising sun TO obtain that book. and
-. TO teach it. They seem To have been
zaccuraged in this, also, by Catholic Tro
cucis Indians from Canada, a few oI
whom had arrived among them This
delegation consisted of one principal
chief. one sub-chief aud two warriors -
They arrived at the American rendezvous
on Green river in time to join the Amer
lean Fur Company on their return from
the Rocky Mountains to the States They
paid their passage (ridiug their own
horses) BY herding animals, hunting
swimming rivers and otherwise making
themselves useful.
At ST Louis. General Clark, then Su-
perintendeni Of Indian Aiiairs for the
| Western Territories. received them kind
/ ly, having met the chief in his own ceun-
try 26 years before. Two Of them died
during the winter. In the spring, as the
other two were about to return to their
nations, the chief made his last lament to
| General Clark: L came to YOU. the
great father of the white men, with bu;
one eye partly open. | am to return ID
my people beyond the mountains ofsnow
at the setting sun, with both ewes in
darkness. aud both arms broken. came
for teachers. / am going back without
them. | came to you for the Book OF
God. You have not led me 10 it. You
have taken me to your big house, where
multitudes Of your children assemble
and where your young women dance as
we do not allow our young women to
dance. aud YOU have taken me to MANY
other big houses where the people bow
down to each other and light torches &c
worship pictures. The Book of God was
not there. And | am to return to my
people to die in darkness"
This lament was overheard in an ad-
joining room by young man of the
Methodist Church, who immediately
made known the fact that Indians had
come from beyond the Rocky Mountains
to obtain missionaries, IN letter to a
brother in Christ in Pittsburgh. But
just as the fact was about to come before
the public, it came under tho eye of the
great Indian traveller, George Catlin
who, providentially, was in that city at
the time. lie advised not to publish the
statement He did not believe it to be
true, as he had travelled from the Rocky
I 4hOuutdiHo III tBC sdiAlO CdIdhd al Will thoSt
Indians; had seen them often in Genera
Clark's Office during the winter; had
never understood they came for that pur
pose, but he would write toGeneral Clark
He did so, and soon received the franz
acknowledgment of General Clark: "Tht
sole object of those Indians in visiting
the States was to obtain religious teach
ers."
Mr. Catlin Immediately gave the fac
to the editor and told him to give it t
the world | received this from Mr.
Catlin's own lips when we met him il
Pittsburgh, on our way to this country
in March of 1886. The lament [ re
ceived from the only surviving one Of tn
delegation after l arrived in the Nation
The chief died soon after leaving St
Louis. Only one of them returned t
the Nation.
The publication of this remarkabl
event, that Indians had come 5000 mile
and from beyond the Rocky Mountains
to obtain the Bible and Missionaries,
proably without parallel in our India
history, although this race of our fellow
beings, until adulterated by the sins @
the white man, have ever shown hun
f gering for the word of God, produced a
will be remembered profound sensation
Nothing like it had ever occurred. ]
was the Macedonian cry .repeSted. Bu