Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-13
low Is most extensive and encou1-

per cent OF uOIS tudu ZoioOO "SiS
communicates of different churches.
The Presbyterian Home Board took
charge of the work In New Mexico
In 1877 and we have about twenty
schools among the the Indians there
and we have Mission stations
among 20 tribes and In eleven
states and three Territories Other
churches are doing a wonderfully
good work among the Indians. The
Baptists have 4 800 members In
Indian churches, aud.expend S.. 900
a year on the work. A mission be-.
gun by them In 1895 among the
fierce Cheyennes, when there was
not a single Cheyenne Christian,
now has a Cheyenne church OF 4I
members at Ktng6sher, I T., and
chapel and parsonage at Watonga.
Buffalo Meat,a war chief for twenty
four years, and for years a United
States prisoner In Florida has been
converted. One war with the
Cheyennes cost the United States
$50. 100000 another, 800 soldiers.
The Methodist missionary WILDER,
converted some 500 Indians In 1877
they built two comfortable churches
and gave $40. 900 to benevo lent
purposes. Bishop Whipple, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, de
serves to rank with Eliot and Brain
erd and Whitman. He spent most
of his lite among the Sioux OF
Minnesota and the Dakotas,
not only winning hundreds to
Christ, but In more than one
instance exerting such a mighty in
fueuce for peace that he kept the
Indians from the war path when
their treaty rights were viola ed
and they We're starving. Together
with Bishop Hare, he brought 1000
OF this one tribe to Christ. The
corgregationalists have about thirty
stations among the Indians, includ.
Ing Alaska, and three schools.
1t was In 1877 the DR.. Sheldon
Jackson went to Alaska; there he
met a people not only asking for
gospel light and the word OF God,
but hands out stretched for food
and clothing. Ali he could do was
to tell them he would come home
aud ask his church to send the aid
they craved. On-fve days notice
Mrs. A. R. Mcfarland answered
his call and started with him for
that distant field, and on August
10, 1877, DR.. Jackson and Mrs. Nc
Farland stepped from the steamer
and entered the streets of Fl.
Wrangell, and founded the Alaskan
Mission. These two alone took up
a mighty work 1t IS said without
money and with only twenty.three
Bibles but with firm hope In Gods
people at home and a great faith In
the Lord to see them succeed. Soon
after Mr.. Bradley followed to Sitka
and the following year Parkersburg,
w. Va, sent the Rev. S. Hall
Young to help at Fort Wrangell,
and others soon followed. In 1878
the Mcfarland home was started
the same year Miss Kellogg opened
a school at Sltka.
In 1879 DR.. Kendall went out
with funds to organize the first
church In Alaska, Now we have
several schools, one large Industrial
and Boarding School at Sitka open.
ed In 1880 and fourteen out stations,
The Presbyterians began work
among The Freeman of the South
fully year before the close of the
Civil War. In 1862 John Grant ap.
pointed General Eaton of the de-
partment of Tenn. and Arkansas to
look after the education and other
needs of the negro. In 1868 GeneIal
Banks had a school In Louisiana
opened under military control. 1t
was at the General Assembly In
Pittsburg In June, 1865, that the
General Assembly's Committee on
Freedman" was organized. 1t was
In 1870 that this division and the
New York division united. This
committee worked without change
for twelve years but the
question of ownership of prop
erty, necessary to the work
and the handling of requests made
1t evident that 1t would be better tc
have a committee incorporated. So
In 1882 a corporated body under
the name OF The Board of Mis-
sionaries for Freedman Of the Pres
byterian church In the United States
of America" was organized. Out
of confusion, ignorance and poverty