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Newspaper
Indian Record
Location
Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1886
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows a monthly publication record from the Indian Territory under a director or editor named C. H. Miler, with garbled references to Squier and an unclear publication entity. The readable bits indicate a monthly issue list or internal circular associated with a Prattery or similarly misspelled authority.
The Atoka church gains a six room parsonage for Rev A Ticker while awaiting a church building. Board of Church Erection grants $200 and offers aid to congregations building, with growing Sabbath school and active missionary work supporting Home and Foreign Boards.
A historical 1844 45 journal entry chronicles church organization with three members and a catechumen class, a death from puerperal fever, and the arrival of Miss Nancy Thompson and John Lilley aiding the mission among the Cherokees. It notes Rev. Limber’s disappearance in New Orleans and a long, troubled period before continuing the narrative with Miss Thompson and Lilley.
The Indian Territory Presbytery met at Big Lick with only two ministers, lacking a quorum. A committee transaction was approved to report to Presbytery for ratification. Ministers with dismission letters attended. one delayed by illness. A plan urged Home Missions to send a White minister and to commission two teachers for Big Lick and Sans Bois. Fourteen examined for fellowship. Choctaw and Cherokee nations urged a rapid, expanded meeting.
A faded tale from New England recalls a mother who sang Jerusalem my happy home to her son in a rural farmhouse. After hardship and a harsh father the boy wanders to the city, becomes dissipated, and falls near death. A devoted city missionary visits, sings the mother’s hymn, and the son recalls his mother, seeks forgiveness, reconciles with his father, then dies peacefully, the pastor calling the hymn the saving influence in the hour of death.
A Brooklyn clerical review argues the Palestine landscape acts as a fifth gospel, revealing the life of Christ beyond texts. It cites scholars from Merrillwell to Schaff, praising field studies and topography that bring Bible events to life and reinforce faith through place.
A St Louis hunter spurred a mission to Crowley Ridge Arkansas where a forest church tabernacle hosts a Sabbath school.Helpers supply literature and preach, with mothers bringing babies long distances to hear the gospel. The people pledge support, offering labor funds and family offerings to back the work as Presbyterian Home Mission notes the approach.
A definition of true honor describes a gentleman who betrays no confidences and harms no one. He respects privacy, avoids deceit, and refrains from opportunistic gains, preferring honest sustenance over dishonor and never intruding on another’s affairs or property.
A compact historic summary recounts the Western Cherokees or Cherokee Nation West. It covers massacre and displacement events at Mussle Shoals and St Francis River, their removal from St Francis and White Rivers to Arkangaw, subsequent 1828 treaty defining the Arkansas boundary, and the long route toward the present Cherokee nation in the west.
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