Indian Record (Newspaper) - December 1, 1886, Muskogee, Oklahoma I r v TNAT WE MIGHT BE TO 1> INDIAN PUBLISHED the j i ADVERTISING t * M 2 1-8 1.25 1-1 it 50 I 7.00. 12.00 5.ihi 7.00 10.00 18.00 IVc ill hv by 1.. A CHRISTMAS lillian Arthur's All flown through the the * turies ' echoes trend of the The ne'er has u.s still the wondrous star that led the way To the the star has lost its shine on Christinas were melodies sung which no mortal the air was with But the of jubilant song the ages all along jl over the hind hurrying over the land rings the carol be peace and goodwill to Ask not for private ease Let one bright star direct thy The polar star * is my house of my in my nothingness With His * * Man or acquired to warrant expectation of personal affiliation with n holy being such as God is. it. is announced that a line of railway is in mining district of Kaiping with tlie of to fie Extended to j. is the if gnage after a of was sacrificed to the prejudices of the The it ta is due to the influence of Ministers do not he phe gifted wonderfully learned to be humanly they do need and some capacity for A good many men regard as the chief function of a paster the up of quarrels over their tea the of the a church and running after ones to fill the The ministry Jesus Christ can be lowered to the man who does it and even a worldly point of - view gains nothing in the It is said that character will develop in all its fullness That were a time too short for ah rYion In. this world only the ear is only the prophetic The at the Godly man for his imperfections is A blade is a small At first it grows very It is so often soiled and crushed But it is a Hying That dead beside it is only it will be anything a But this small doth not yet appear what it shall Prof. with the and and quenching this Christian fife is ' The believer is regarded a has for his old no lohger his loriner His life is not a modification or of the old new nature parted directly from the heart of Christ and Christ is now as fully accepted in the beloved Son truly the child of God as Jesus and with aspirations as as His high and heavenly with with together with made together With Christ in heavenly called know the power of His arid the fellowship of His 4. Christian life is a life of separation from the has crucified the with its affections and Il world is crucified unto and I the It must the things that are and the members that It off the old his its is iii ever that they who mind Earthly things of the crofts 5. Christian life is a life of with the which against the conflict with rulers of the darkness of this spirits in heavenly And the nearer we get to the gates of the thicker grow the opposing more the ordeal of But the sufficient and the victory is 0. Christian life is one of practical Nothing is more emphasized in the Epistles of Paul than the df the the andi a spiritual life ought to superior at least the necessity of being so pointedly reminded knows that * * * Eternity is. crying out to you louder and louder as you near its Vie Count your learn what you are not lit and give up wishing for learn what you can and do the energy of a Truth Is powerful when it stands It is like the sunlight that has a clearness and force of its and makes its warmth and life giving felt without any human It is best when it embodies itself in personality and life as the sunlight is most effective when it weaves itself in flower or There is a good deal of complaint at Yale on the part of the concerning the religious services which they are compelled to It is not there is. a general desire to have them but there is a wish to the preachings less less more Scriptural and more that the devotional services shall be less formal and characterized by more * * years ago tlie honorable directors of the East India Company 911 solemn sending of Christian missionaries into our Eastern possessions is the most most unwarrantable project that was ever proposed by a lunatic A few months Sir Rivers my Christians more real and lasting good to people of India than all other agencies So is the difference the fears of and the pf God's * was in a forest a great oak with mighty trunk and nt At length it began to Yet it not been smitten by the nor broken by the nor deadened by the woodman's treacherous vines had crept stealthily up its great running out among all its covering the whole tree with a robe very beautiful to the But this lovely vine was all the while sapping tree's last the tree was So does the world weave its One by one of his life become bare and until he stands like dying glory a mere skeleton his in lobes of The world has sapped his eaten away the fibre of life and destroyed his has woven the shroud and built the tomb for of men's within her chartered li hi as it could and was entered into in the tbo tender in their The only Indiana residing at within the limits of Georgia were years all the land hold by the Creeks within her so she was very of obtaining the 111 of that state were pressing to extinguish the Cherokee The throughout a term not within the memory pied the lands they then inhabited without they had from time to time ceded to the States large tracts of at the time we arc formed part of Tennessee and but their they had occupied was not firmed in the most solemn by the United extending from 1795 to 1878, and per haps tlie discovery of gold caused I persons under pretext of authority Georgians to obtain the and to prevent a number of whites had within at their and there chartered was no law among tor what by the * Cherokees called that vide a guard for the protection of plication was made to the to remove A company 1 United States to expel the intruders in the fall of 18.29. W the troops arrived the I i come to believe in lent claims gotten up for tlie some .an independent upon A great For the proof of this assertion we will to the made by and two eminent legal in 18i)l-2 writ for country occupied Cherokee ' In 1828, Very things are the truest of for of the Grand and the most influential was to be the first testimonies of our religion before the ' As greatest minds are always most perfect masters of as truest will be as in measuring seconds - as so holiest saint convened .at Hew Jurisdiction over the 18a,4*nd,a number of religion the | Council under the new constitution The election passed for at that day the Cherokees knew but in The ever be servant or 7. the true Christian life is a life not only of working and but of waiting and hoping for the of Christ and the glory of the looking for the blessed hope and the glorious of tire great Savior Jesus toward the robe of splendor about a high - - ot It tiUs his hands with It spreads costly tapestries beneath his It decks his home with brilliant It wreathes a crown of laurel for his Other men envy his but the angels as they watch his leaf beginning the branches arnved from THE Recollections of a Life of Years Among - NO. In the early part of 1.182.8 a The Real Christian We are all to attend to the everyday business of and it is right that we should do but this Christian Life is something different at the same time it enters into iin ordinary Some of the most prominent characteristics of a truly Scriptural and spiritual life are the i. 1.' Christian life is life in Christ He is our very but in And to the close we are dependent on Him for every and do all things through Christ that strengtheneth 2.-' Christian life is the Christ seals aiui is tlie substance of it. We the and the Spir All our graces are fruit of We are by the the John Quincy bringing a special communication to the in regard to the it being the first Indian constitution known to the United States copy of the constitution had been Washington 80f)h afTer On the arrival of the messenger it created a little flutter in the minds of the Chiefs and the The informed the Chiefs Ross that tile adoption of the constitution could not in any aspect change the with To this tlie Chiefs wrote out and sent a written no John in which they deny having any such intention by the adoption of the constitution pf changing with the Government of the United also took exceptions was a forcing Indian partly within what she claimed to be her chartered Georgia was looking forward to the acquisition of all the lands within and already a compact with the General Echota in 1828. The new government under - their first constitution went that John Ross was elected Principal Chief George Lowry for four New Circuit and Supreme organized that The prospects before the Cherokees then were a prosperous and peaceful In. the political though there mutterings from everything appeared fair and The Cherokees moved along smoothly during the 1828 1829. But in 1829, the ture of the state of passed aii act extending jurisdiction of the state over all that of the country lying charted - portions of territory in the act to five to Hall and metes and bounds of so much of the territory attached to each were That act declared that all of the Cherokee after 1830, should be null and that all laws from 1880, civil and criminal of the of Georgia should be extended over the territory above National held a session at lestation in 1829," The Cherokee laws were executed in all parts of the papers refer and m Government to the land Altoona on I and by all of de it fled and but few first day 1880, to hold The Visited all the any or legislative under digging but made few ar- the authority of tribe and those arrested they of Any person offending after a1 against this provision of the section shall be guilty of a high and oh indictment conviction shall be punished by at labor in the penitentiary for the space of four Section second is nearly the it is to prevent any kind of under uny color or pretexts whatever by authority of Cherokee The punishment For in the The fourth from executing any process under penalty of four years in the BB THE LAMBS OF THE maky a. The company came to New Echota while were treated with great The Cherokee Council and Chiefs viewed this act on the part pf the General Government as an acknowledgement of their political rights and the possession of their This delusion but conr J last for after 1830J the 18WH of the civil and were extended over tlie chartered limits of The Indians the Other officers of the counties various and the long limits were extended and defined lime they had occupied their above refused tdv come into without molestation or even a hint the Nation make and in a against their to great many upon such cases were trumped up fpr the purpose of the Indians so as them to emigrate to nation werft -in- 1 1 1 in droves through the nation along the federal W the officers began making arrests and serving processes they were rather fearful of and always brought along a even then the fear of ah Indian was before their In instances the Indians were anxious to and if ariy of their leading men had encouraged them there would have been but the head men discouraged anything like an outbreak in other officers from as they knew like the shedding of blood of while men would be the utter ruin of the and that would soon as the small and 8urrounded~on all sides by a dense tain possession of the On looking and having no nation without In the it appears that the General u ' year 1829 was Council did convene in amid the resplendent glories of His Council did convene in and from that time in I was at that tipie the Georgia authorities became more tlie printer for - their was the last tittle the Grand Cc This Council In tlie year 1829 gold at as I find in the Cherokee Nation at the that passed by the ot nailed Pi of on a measure add Him who cross for our place called the ' 1880, Him WUQ er known and thousands caption of which read of whites congregated there to dig V Gold also at Sixes act to prevent the you advise at all agree wld from the Cherokee Indians he - to enforce the aws of the state within aforesaid The first makes it unlawful for any person after tbe only of the nation within the char limits of Georgia The Government paid for all improvements and the and fed the twelve months after their arrival in These provisions were so much as to induce many to accept As soon as an Indian his improvements white man in Georgia ready to step in and occupy By this means a great many prominent stands on the became occupied by citizens of These as they were were very especially those on what were termed the federal as air the travel in those was on carriages or 0ii8. There was a between the people of For some begun from Kentucky in - As o'er thy green pastures thou watched Dear come hither and bless ns - wis The waiting thy face 5 - ' Of beautiful pastures In Eden they wander afar lest hold bear In thy bosom the lambs of. the fold r tell thy love Is the wall 'round us here That without Is a lonely and ' But they look and What they behold Of Is most fair to the lambs of the - There tire encumbered beautiful There and 1 ills and fairylike They will not though are They'll lead on to ruin the lambs of the gentle and seek we The night will be the storm Will be Bring back In thy bosom the lambs of the 1 Their feet are so how they will ' They'll find midst the blossom the and the The poison that foe ' ' reserve from him the lambs of the ' Aud gentle thou thein above .To All up the pastures prepared in thy Come thou to the brink of so bear the each lamb of the for joy that was set before endured the The bridegroom rejoices because of who were anxious to ob- t. y r r. - - the as well as tain of the t. L because of ms satisfaction in aw and the uset in the fullness of possess attributes of rapture from human hearts made glad by the drous tbat the Godward longing of out
