Ellsworth American., 1909-05-26
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR.
Prayer Meeting Topic For the Week
Beginning May 3o 1909.

IWGiNe HDOSIlpS WaS SITlGliN Utile
missionary one They were sent out
- +ha Ia,,.s onir nc tba dav for the
~.u, ~, o, - th, ,an+;,os
Au io' YET eoiiie'
W enem was in'o any ei's VI .ne ga
saritahs enter We hoe' ou' so ia'nei "
Hne iost sneep ol 'ne nouse u isiaei @
But OF What 'lnes oiu we nave niue
Ano"ieuse' pal sneii AVE- H'es "e.s
1eroic III nilssiotiai9 enueaNoi'
America ooes uot want ior ''eroes oi
nolne nilssions- oui eountis was set
ueo ps e'iii iseian pe'pie WY aene.l
tne sospei 10 tue hatlNe ihuiahs anu
subsequently, " 'ne Naiseii~eu
people VINO lVeu "itlin our poraers'
usually caiieu the eAceptiohal popuia-
'Aons' sueii as the Aioi i'ioh's' HeAie""s
mouli'ail whites coioree race anu
o.ueis' III 'his "orh tue inquest hiiu
y. neiuisin Mas oi'en ulspi"S Gu
'onn E'iot' tlie "p"St'e W 'lie IN
uahs' stahus nrst AMONG our hoine
.issIoh ne'oeS. L'lot iloo'eu "ilous
tue Fequots anu other tfiues III eastern
Massacnuset's' ne pesah ms "oIA III
1o4o, "nlie paStoF vi the chufch "t
noApury. Ills lucessaht lapors were
crowned win success lie gathered
ms converts INTO towns ana eslaolsned
SCHOOLS ana cNlilzed industries. Inc
towns were known as lndlan praying
towns Ellot made two catechisms
1or the indlans ana translated the BIZ
Ole INTO their language in 1908. Two
years iater lt was printed-the first BIZ
pie printed on the American continent
dow appropriate it was that it should
nave been In the Indian tongue! Eliot
tabored among his people for thirty
years, often amid great dangers, teach
mg them to work. to read and to
pray. he gave them Bible in their
own tongue, and from the fighting saw
ages six churches were gathered and
more than a thousand praying In
dams" Eliot's famous motto. written
at the end of his Indian grammar. was,
~Prayer and praise through faith in
Jesus Christ will do anything"
2. David Brainerd was a conspicuous
missionary hero. His work was among
the Indians in Connecticut, Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey. His greatest
and most successful work was per-
formed among the Crossweeks. a tribe
in central New Jersey. He labored
against tremendous odds and vet. bv
the grace of God, transformed drunk
en, bowling savages into devout and
faithful Christians. Or. AshbeI .savs.
Ills success here was perhaps with
out a parallel in heather missions
since the days of the apostles" The
Indians became settled into a town
and a church and school were estab-
1ished. Weakened by i'll health, he
moved to Elizabethtown. Gaining a
little strength. he was able to visit his
people to bid them farewell, Feb. is.
1S47. He died Oct. 8 the same year,
after a brilliant career. although he
was only thirty years of age at the
time Of his death. Brainerd's life by
Jonathan Edwards should be read bv
all Christian Endeavorers. Before his
death his brother John visited him and
continued his work.
8. Marcus Whitman is perhaps the
most picturesque of all our missionary
heroes. 1t was by his heroic action
that Oregon and the great northwest
were saved to the United States. AS
. missionary in Oregon he saw the en-
eroachments of the English in that ter
11tory and appealed to the govern
ment to do something to save 1t. Ap-
peals failing, Whitman came all the
way to Washington and received per-
mission from the government to take
Sufficient people to Oregon to form a
settlement and thus sustain American
superiority. In this great undertaking
ne was successful, leading 1000 peo-
pc 70 TINS distant home, and when
Aney We're settled the American flag
was falsed' never to come down. Whit
nah was successIu In his work
u .ne wni.ee Vi oeher na.iohs