Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-01-13

out Rev Messrs. Gushing Erlls,
Elkanah Walker and A. Il. Saith,
missionaries, with their wives. who
with Cornelius Rodgers, mechanic
ana teacher, William H. Gray, me-
rhanic and teacher, and wife, GRO sed
the plains, reaching Waiilatpu On
the 1st of September. Rev. A. B.
Smith was a signed to WI'ilatpu,
Messrs. Gray aud Rodgers to Lap
wal Rev. Messrs Eol!s and Wal
kcr having selected the al.e for their
new station at Tshimikan, near Fort
Colville, among tie Spokan Indians,
returning to Waillatpu, where they
ministered. The condition of the
mission is thus exhibited by the
annual repor: for 1888, of the Amer.
lean Board:
CAYrsEs.-Statiou at Walilatpu.
DR.. Marcus Whitman, physician and
catachist and Mrs. Whitman, Rev.
Asa B. Smith, Missionary, and Mrs,
Smith.
NEz PERCEs - Station at Clear
! water. Rev. Henry H. Spalding
missionary, and Mrs. Spalding
VIM. II. Gray, mechanic and teacher
and Mrs. Gray, Cornelius Rodgers,
mechanic and teacher.
FLATHEADs.-S Station at Tshimi
kan. Revs. Gushing Eells and Ell
kanan Walker missionaries, Mrs
Eells aud Mrs. Walker.
REcAprTULATIoN.- stations, 4 mis-.
sionaries, l physician, 2 mecban.
les and teachers, 5 female assistants
Total ID. The school at Lapwai, or
the 22d November, 1888, numbered
1G0 children. with as many more
adults.
QS39) At Lapwai Station, the
first printing press was set up and
the first books we've printed west Of
the Rocky Mountains. Mr.. Edwin
o. Hall, printer of the Honolulu
Mission, accompanied by his wife
arrived in the Columbia river ApIi
23d, from Sandwich Islands, reach
ing Lapwai, early in May. During
the subsequent fall and winter. ele
mentary books were printed in the
Nez Perces and Flathead languages
In the fall another station was es
tablished among the Nez Perces, a
kamiah, Oh Clearwater river, about
sixty miles east of Lapwai, Rev. ASS
B. Smith, missionary, being as
signed thereto.
Q840.) On the 1lth January, thu
mission building at Tshimikan was
destroyed by fire. Through the IF
ficient service of A. Mcdonald, Esq.
Chief Factor of the Hudson's B !,
company, in charge of Fort Colvil,e
and the Jealous cooperation of The
Indians, the buildings were 500,
rendered adequate to protect the
missionary families from the inciem
encies of the winter. The Indian.
had welcomed the missionaries, as
sisted in and consented to the selec
ton of the necessary land for the
several stations, had continued friend
ly and we'll disposed, and eagerly
received religious as well as Other
instruction. The officials of the
Hudson's Bay cuMpa. Y, uniformly
courteous, had always III offered theil
good Offices and active sympathy
TO appreciate the workings of this
mission, it becomes essential to un.
derstand its cons,itu ion and disci-
pline. The American Board exer
cised no ecclesiastical control. The
missionaries were allowed to adop
their form of church government
Rev. Gushing Eells thus classified
the material of which this mission
was constituted: Six members ia
vored Congregational church polity
four wer, Presbyterians, two Dutcl
Reformed. The Mission church wa.
Presbyterian in name, but practical
ly Congregational. The Oregon
Mission was first formed, afterward:
the number of stations determined
The mission is the body, the station:
the branches. According to mer
and means, operations were enlarged
Or contracted; number of stations
increased or diminished. 1t begar
with two stations, which were in
creased to four. The Missions Of
the American Board of Foreign Nils.
sions were little republics. All the
important arrangements in regard tc
each station are made in annual
meetings of all the members of the
mission and determined by the vote
of the majority Of those present"
| u84l.) To this discipline or con.
stitution of the mission, its ire
sponsibility to superior ecclesiastit
tribunal, or executive head, without
o chief officer or superintendent te
assume direction or exercise authori
| ty, must be attributed that ncn-con
geniality of its several constituents
which SO soon detracted from it,
usefulness and success. In that " lit
tie republic" jealousies had ariser
and complaints and harsh criticisms
not only as to the motives, compe
tency and Christian character of the
most prominent missionaries, bu
inveighing against the utility of Ger
tain stations were forwarded to tn,
Board; ordinations and recrimina
tons, personal rancor and suspicion
of each other, necessarily gave oc
casion to those responding and die
couraging reports. during 1S4l
which went forward from Oregon te
the American Board. In April u
that year, the Rev. A. B. Smith anG
wife sailed for the Sandwich Islands
leaving Kamiah station vacant
Sectarian differences among the M
tive population had also made theil
appearance. In 1889, the Catholic
missionaries had commenced theil
labors among the Indians of the in
terror. The priests had not located
permanent missionary stations, bu'
missions were designated to which