Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-10-31

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Rev. S. E. Henry, of Norman, and
Rev E. Hamilton of Chickasha,
temporary clerks. Friday morn
ing the synod visited the academy
for chapel exercises on invitation
of Prof. L. A. Ellis, the principal
Business sessions of the synod
were held Friday and Saturday
with popular meetings in the even
ings. Friday night Mrs. De Wore
of the executive committee oI
home missions, recently returned
from Alaska delivered an intensely
interesting address on the mission.
airy work in that far off northwest
territory. frequently called oul
American refrigerator"
Saturday night the meeting was
addressed by DID j Mcmillan d.
D.of the New York board of foreign
missions, who again preached a
very excellent sermon Sunday
morning at II a. m.
All the meetings were very inter
esting and by common consent it
was declared TO be the most busi-
ness like, as well as the most
spiritual, and the best in all re-
spect of any synod ever held in
the territory.
Rev. w. r. King, of Muskogee,
was reelected synodical mission
airy for another year. The next
meeting will be at McAlester or
the fourth Thursday in October,
1896.
Following is list OF members
present:
Rev. H. A. Tucker, Roge rs,
Ark; Rev. C H. Miller, Ell Reno,
o. L.; Rev. S. w. Griffin, Enid,
o. T.; Rev. E. Hamilton, Chicka-
sha. l. T.; Rev. c. C. Mckinley,
Ardmore, |. F.; Rev. A. E. Thorn
son, Chandler, o. T.; Rev. J. II.
Aughey, Mulhall, o. T.; Rev.
John Mordy, Newkirk, o. T.;
Rev. VIM. T. King, Guthrie, o.
T.; Rev. B "A. Fields, Edmund q,
o. T.; Rev. S. E Henry, Norman,
O. T.; Rev. F. w. Hawley, Okla
homa City, o. T.; Rev. A. G.
McGlllivray. New Ponca, o. T.;
Rev. 7. w. Perryman, Tulsa, |.
L.; Rev. L. Dobson, Claremore, |.
T.; Rev. E. p. Robertson, Melvin,
|. T.; Rev. E. E. Mathes, Nc
Alester, l. T.; Rev. w. r King,
Muskogee, |. T.; Rev. w. NJ
Hamilton. Tahlequah, L. T.: Rev.
r. j. Lamb, Park Hill, I. T.; Rev.
S. A. Caldwell, Vinita, |. T.; Rev.
d. n. Leerskov, Red Fork, 1. T.;
Rev. F. +. Dobson, FIT. Gibson, |.
T.; Rev. F. NJ. Williams, NJ. D.,
Muskogee, |. r.; Rev. J. H. Land,
Okmulgee, l. T.
Elders-President W. A. Cald-
well, Muskogee, L. T.; D. A. Nc
Hugh, New Ponca, o. t.; w. B.
Robe, Okmulgee, /. T.; Edwin
Chamberlain, Pheasant Hill; D.
NJ. Marrs, Vinita. |. T.
The one great distinguishing fea-
ture of Presbytsrianism is the
thorough education of its clergy.
An educated ministry has been
largely the secret of its success at
home and in foreign lands, and
every church and community that
has an ordained Presbyterian
preacher, has in Its mids. an edu-
Gated man in the 5roadest and
truest sense of the term. But the
thing that has aided this
grand old church most in extend
ing its work of spreading the gos-
pei, and the thing most to be ad-
mired is its system of boards, or
garized and maintained Tor its
work of evangelizlng and Chris
tianizing the world. The old
Scottish covenanters believ ed that
the work of the gospel began and
centered about the living ministry.
The prevailing idea of the church
from the days of John Knox has
beer that as Christ at the first
called around him the twelve dis
ciples, and kept them under his
training for three years in prepa-
ration for their future service, so
the church first raises up its la
borers for the harvest fields. This
involves at the outset a course of
study and education. Hence its
board OF aid for colleges and
academies. Then it has its board
of foreign missions, which takes
up the young man or woman that
desires work in foreign lands
among the heather nations, pro-
vides the means of transportation
and subsistence and continues in
constant communication with him,
paying his salary and supervising
his labors. Then it has its board
for the Freedmen, TO collect funds
and educate negroes that may 60
among their own people and teach
and evangelize them.
But probably the grandest
of all is its board OF Home
Missions. This is the board that
here in this territory and
especially here at Vinita we can
appreciate most. This board
alone has poured into the church
here more than ST, 600 in the last
twelve years in the way of pastors
salaries.
Then comes the board of Church
Erection, without the aid of which
there would not be a half dozen
Presbyterian churches in the Cher
okee nation AS the family must
have home. place where the
parents and children form the
family circle, so the church organ
ization must have its own dwelling
place, its "house of God" and to
meet such a condition this board
has been organized. Then it has
"a,