The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-09-04
nc Rev. John E. Kealy)

iDl w.
citing sun descends behind
urn hills. August rs, 1924,
F@so rays will linger, as if loath
wv an a beautiful spot nearly
9'a The mingling of the Kenne-
~ SANDY river waters, known
~ tourist. TO many a child
Pine Tree state, as Indian Old
Tho scene of the sacrifice and
NJ Sebastian Rale.
Gathering shades of the COM
r.5ing will mark the passing of
Tsond centenary of the death of
.markable man, who. on the 23rd
[,nst 1924. here closed amid the
arms. an apostolate of more
thirty wears. Since that event
n our country has grown in
her people have often ploughed
|lsd this consecrated spot, fer
by the blood of a murdered
bnt with all our increasing re-
thp fame of Rale, while not di-
|kng has seemed to grow with
bg years.
few days ago our State Ii
Ia while assisting at a memorial
in a time-worn church. the
T. religious home of the noted
|, and missionary. Elijah Kellogg,
pptly portraying the labors of
N men who had toiled for the
fcation of their fellow-creatures.
Itpd not to place at the head of
|hrjous procession, the now hon
name of Sebastian Rale. In
these sentiments, our worthy
librarian simply gave utterance
kst feeling common to a vast
nude which today bestows with
ksinted hand honor on whom
Is due.
HEALING HAND OF TIME
! more than thirty years the
has mingled with the people
hine. During this time it has
bis privilege to be associated
HE memory of those time-honor-
ices, Norridgewock, Pentegoet,
Ind we are now happy to say
i have yet to meet the true
of history who has ausht but
for the man who labored In
distant years when their very
we're household words in all
England, names which inspired
save hatred and fear. The
1 hand OF time has happily
n away all animosities, and has
Ixy love and reverence.
W stand today on the rising
b just below Madison and look
the Kennebec Valley, over the
bling spot where a departed race
lived, we feel that the view be-
Us is but little changed from
hi Rale's day. If the scene be-
|s is beautiful now. it was more
ben. We might, perhaps, have
u on that Hateful August after
| when the sainted missionary
Flown the cares of life, the fields
Elien corn responding to the
I ephyrs, or ripening beneath
pays Of the summer sun. The
frost may have, perchance, just
+ the surrounding foliage, giving
those many variegated tints so
| admired during the last days
summer. We would
seen a level plateau formed by
sluyial deposits of many a by
age, rising some fifty feet above
fapldly descending waters of the
lf0ee. a soil early and well drain
excellent tillage ground
lew vegetables and the maize
/ formed the Indians daily fare.
he east and north, but a short
away, the rising hills Gov
by the lofty evergreen. virgin
offered protection against the
. blast, to the south and west,
waters of the Kennebec
% mingle with those of the
Y River. both pure and unsullied
hand Of civilization, gushing
as 1t We're, from their forest
Is. lashed to snowy Wilderness
descent over the rock-bound
70 hattie the shores of "Old Ma
oaae Here, in the spring time,
,le lar away sea came the shad,
the salmon, to bask and
WIN that Tiyely denizen of our
stream, the speckled trout; here
east bank of the Kennebec,
: une outlet of the Sandy River,
V,l Narrantsouac. palisaded to
Drh and east by the forest wild
south and west by the bound
Tyer waters.
SHROCDED SPECTRE
aon has the eye of man beheld
y enhancing scene, or gazed on
~ surroundings than the little
= oi Narrantsouac. nesting here
\ very heart of Nature. blessed
!. 'sal the hand of a bountiful
~ haa to offer. How we'll our
I 's'ered New England poet.
WI aath described the scene be-
:, a. Inc kind reader may judge.
! : az me panegyrist OF a noted
= anlei' old Mogg, Whittier beau
ue prov Of a hill which slopes
to meet
"o"lhg river, and battle its
feet
: 'dFe washed rock and the
4 = arooping grass,
't creeping vine as waters
pass
h, NJ and unshapely chapel stands.
" ~ the wild. by unskilled
hands
' us traveller knows it is a place
Of prayer,