Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-10-22

! little slow on work, and disposed to
lease their allottments to the whites.
Some of them lead the old nomadic
life, dwelling in tents and teppees
and roaming from place to place. 1t
! is hard to break habits formed by
| the centuries.
The Government requires them to
educate their children, and has es-
| tablished a fine school at Fort Sill
Mission schools are maintained by
the Reformed Presbyterian Church
at Fort Sill and by the NJ E. Church,
South, Baptist Church and Presbyte-
rian Church, at Anadarko. Some of
the younger generation are well edu-
Gated, the brightest ones of them
having been sent to schools in the
East.
The time is near at hand when
Day Schools" together with Sun
day schools should be established in
every community The conscious
contact of the school room with the
home and of the teacher with the
household, will have an uplifting eff.
feet upon the entire family This
will be the Church's opportunity.
The Mission School gives what the
Government school does not attempt
and what the Red Man in his be-
nighted condition most needs, and
that is Iight,-"the beautiful light |
of God" His place both in the |
Kingdom and state is only a question |
of coming in contact with the best, |
rot the worst OF our civilization.
The NJ. E. Church. South, enter
priced work among the wild |
Tribes" centering on the Kiowas in
The fall of 1887. Rev. J. J. Methvin
was our first missionary, and has the
honor OF building on
no other II ans foundation" lie
ollowed the Indians II their wander
ings, preaching 10 them III their vii
lagos down IN the creeks III the win
ter, and out on the prafries in the
Finally work was central
led at AnadarkO. which was the
Kiowa Agency. and
where all the tribes had headauar-
-ers-from four to five thousand ,
would camp for weeks at a time. In
$3.50 parsonage with a church an
hex was erected, and in 1890. the
irst building of Methvin Institute. \
This Mission School, now under the ,
auspices of the woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, opened with T
hree pupils, but in time enrolled as s
many as ITO during the session. 1t
las had for seventeen years a leav-
ming influence in civilizing and
the Wild Tribes" In
SS4. at the request of the Woman's
-oard, Brother Methvin gave himself
xclusively to the school work. Two
eW missionaries were sent to the e
cid; Rev A. r. Butler to Little I
Nashita. and Rev. w. A. Brewer TO 81
'ort Sill. These in time were fol- II
owed by Revs. 7. n. Moore, ]. c. e
arYener, -- Forester, ]. E. Low e
tt, L. F. Gassaway. NJ. A. Clark. o
.rother Gassaway had a great in
altering of the Indians. and p
rouSht to light Kickingbird. South IL
IN Methodisms apostle to the Kio- I
'as Brother Clark is closing his y
bird year among the wild Tribes -. I
I'D twenty-third as missionary TO o
ne Indians. He is an ex-Confeder- d
tie soldier. and goes around on one C
Ag, having left the other on the N
attic field, following Jackson and n
ZEE He lives among the Indians. >
ats their fare, and in every way is Z
ientified with their salvation. Hat Il
-eather-beaten and gray in the ser j,
ice, the old hero when retired 81
lould be put on a pension. He has II
Is monument at Mt Scott. beautiful er
eW church, nearing completion. Il
his building likewise stands to the &C
'alSe of the Indians who ua1-o conn II