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Show - - , ' ; , , . . ; ' , ,, Churchtteportment . ; . . 14he ., I , , ' . . . , Bdô Of Mormon And The Red Man , . . . , - ' , ' . t , - . , ' Continued Few Page 6 Book no word will be spoken by our old and our young. braves. metit.1 sy one rime theywillPeoPlY ond go silence. . . -My will Ole in triirKuess,lants they uill go on the tong ratta to tstiother 0 White man hunting artitinim.. will go with them fli nd no white' man's book tucks he way plait,. I have no ore wo do." A rasspet Call !When this paean as translated and publish. it war ike a trumpet call to the dasiona y societies of the East. T e Arne, lean Board of s Commissions a of Foreign to called for Volunteers the llo pal to he "heathens" OM of the forest. The Macedonian cry,. 'Tome over and help us," become sich battlers as Mateus the slogan. Whitman an samuel Parker were recruited bill Jeined a caravan, of fur trappers enroute for the West. On the Omen River they Perces net the chiefs of the Nee and the' Flatheads, the two tastes tehich sent the delegation to St. Louis in search of (he Book. The Id isaionaries explained eagerly their missip and briefly outibiedtheir philosshy of religion, thinkbe re-- ! ing.1.hey w uld instantly t calved Its it agents who the !coveted Book. were tl at (Lemarked The bringithg to more. "We they cared te bearthe man's white Shout have heard God," they said. "but it has otily! it is evigone Into out ears.? TOLISwhich the dent that the Book for four red men had been sent to St.. had for it was the not Bible, Louis been taught to the natives ler heard years. They of another book which had a far, the to than them greeter appeal Bible. Few Fearerdoom The Methodists. !Presbyteriaras, and Catholics sent ntany preaciaLo, Into the Oregon country within, the next decade. bit conversions' to the were few in comparison number expected. No phenomenal the enachieved were and results tire outcome was a disappoint,. of mem. in view the!angiety which these same natives had called for and were awaiting the Book fromreThese intliane soon Heaven. sented the while man and his 111- ble, the 'Whitman- !mission was burned and the misSionaries cruel-- , ly murdered. Thus hy 160 it was hook desired by, apparent thatatthe St. !mule had not the indiaos been offered to the ted men of tne ewestern forest. They had been diThe rsteel for the appointed. White Man's Book trot Heaven was a challenge to the phristian: world which they ailed to 'meet.; Their anserer was merely an alibi.' If the Bible had net been prcarshell to the inhabitant of the forest of the far west belo.e 113.34 the eit! for nation would be dif erent. but more than two rent vies the Euro-- , fa inland had taking peons pushed with them a knowl Igo of the ilii, hie. From the daw of European aggression in the u w world missionary work was ncontemporary fact not a with colonization. stream was explores. not 4 settlement matte, hut a priest led the way. It was thonght that the Blb le would be of great ceonomic by uniting the reilman and the in trotter in a bond ot brotherhued. It was to be the one thing in Om-mo- o which, would placate thelfeelings of the native al the foreigner eitploited his lands, carried away his gains and fur bearings animaie and gradually drove the Ilcopwrcolored man from his posseaaiona. The VETMOttnia motive was present in all of the early Imovements to Christiania t, the lodian, neverthe Wee old. less this roselytir g versal. From th time of errazano, who followed it the wak of Columbus, the Frenel were LifThing far In'. land with vanguu d of indomita ble priests, who tral slated parts of the Bible ow vark us Indian hint spread their gauges. a it rapidi message tc the joie Mr. As early as 1742. 'arrundyre had pushed the Frenel claims Ito the Rocky Mountains. penetrating the present with this state of 1;1 Jezult intrepid explorer was a before priest. Mance ninety years Morthe publiertion of thie Book of mon the Indiana fir Inland had learned from the French of the white man,'s Bible. It was a priest who prevrd that 'Mississippi River empties lido the gulf of Mexico. this same it arquette. won tienttentletti to wilhh WM Heir of tite Quit, 'poke elevOn different TM Matt languages, the white mares andklexplained of the natives. rist ion I dians The historian Shea. one of the foremnlit scholars on this period o; '. history declares: "As ear y ay 1820 the Flatheads and Nex Perces had been Chris bans at, heart, the result of instruction lin the Catholic faith by who certain educated Iroquois found their way (i tong thern."1 Most, hostiwians, in 'oda Catholic ebrititianity. Thus the first Bible tiding of the Book of Mormon to printed in. America was lit the lir ' have beim carried in a few months to the Nee Perces of the northwest,. dant Isinguage, tlie New !Testament In Iti61 and the l'he transfer of thist message would: biting published not involve more tribes or terti.'. entire !Bible twa 'year, istar. 'Aftr his long minion', among thero' he tory titan did Pongee's Conspiracy. ;.. became in Coursing in the eine if the lee finally diticonraged mid manilas- is the tainted Islotal of .,111PrO is a clond, a 1070 ei,r6te seph and under the eeppereolored ;lark Cloud upon the work nf the ekin Ia a familiar (Menet! anon g die poor Inittaith , yearn- leg for the Book from Heaven. If !The! preach ere along the the four snissionartea to Otis Leman. 'board'I who tarried the thwpel ites had been in Bt. Louie in the message to the nutivt$ were ie.' summer of 183A Iv ere few may have knette. eet. converts gion, been able to'haVe they the four early as 1702 the Englivb determined delegetei given the Boots they were founding sett lenient and sought, wilding the veneralde Is. ICOMIle the poet Oregon tading Taelites back to their distant Yds try. The Buttons hay CO., wet soon lages with "both eyes open." beari .plying a prosperous treat in that leg the jewel of their questWits 41'Wott, A few years later.; the Book of Mormon. t licselY Mountain Fur 170.,' Pacific Legendary Support Fur Co., American Fur Cie. with other eottapanimi and From the Columbia to leaetel Coned legend abound hill; kvats. pI ivate enterprises Were tanning a belief in rant such': a re. otream evert.' large trappers along ord as the.,Book just of Mormen purk, in the .northweitt. From northern be. to Front the days of ports (lunette to Arizona, numerous 'trapOolumbus to the present time Ira., twra folimIed the etreams, lessened halos (Miens been related told l:sy the. and the Indian language aborigines of Amerieti which would. them 'shout the white ntan'a Bible. have of mind the, the cart-leIndians; al--. a Bible Jeciediab Smith ways- - in a state of expectancy; more than a gun. end invould talk evec looking forward to the re. tar Into the night In an effort to Wtablishment of the glory of their get the Indian, to understand the fathers. Thus such a recerd as the Christian philosephy. Many et '. . ' .. ' " 41' ,.. ....., - ' , - I . . - 4 'li ! 7 ' A - ' v 'I religion of the wilt es. They hove retained what, they could of it, and they have learned to make the sign of the crorei and play." Clark writes the., "As early as Itluttuois trent isle some catimit Canada bait settted mitng the Flatheads and taught. them religion." Christia t litetellell Bancroft and Ykitnevtlte ogres that by 1820 thes wo tribes were 'so familiar with Christian customs' and principles that they would not fish or bunt or e en move camp on the Sabbath. T ley even placed wooden crosses at Ihe bead of the graves of their delild. Bonneville, who 'traveled arming them early in 1833.1writes of them: "KtriP131 to call these 'people religious, would be - IJ convey but a faint idea of the- deep piety and deetition that perv4dest their whole cooduce Thtir hoeesty is immaculate. and their purity of purpose. and their observaitce of the rites of their religion. ;Hie most uniform and remarkable. Tbey ere certainly more like a nation of saints than a horde of savages They even bad a hale calendar or the fasts and festivals of the Botish Church and limns traces of These accounta eliow that parts of the Christian roefhod of worship had been, adopted by these two trines as early as $820. Why therti' ven-ben- , -- . .. . : . ' i . ; r Ills-shin- ..-- ,..., whalers, agree la It this 0plana non. In teell, 'bebop 'Joseph Roaate Catholic bishop 0( itt... Louis. w;ote 1 lengy tieentint dna incidinb I portion of "We have since earned from a Canadian. who hall elvisect tbe country which they inhobit ... that they had received sonio'notions of the Cathulie rebel 's from two Indians who had beei to Canada Ord who had ,related ehat they Lad seen and heard. gi tog a stalking of. the beautiful ceredescription monies of the Cat tic woreinp, and telling them t et it wee the 1 4 ' . , ,T 1 - , - ' $ . i the Rook of Mormon would be ' 1 ' othettrappers ly received by, them. Christian theology and expiiiitted Some of the who were en. natives the thick of Life to their red Oaved by Columbus mentioned H t..' brethren. . , tide former glory in. the following It Is evident that by the veer sorts: Iti..14 there were very few zativea of time the that 'They spoke k In the far west Who had not itonird were pest. before the white man :., Of Mt white metes Weak of Life. had Introduced sorrow. and slats- - no new subiejet Over Which It Watt ery, sod weary labor among them -tha tribes of the northwest ahould and they rehearsed pretended 'become tat alarmed. For two cen- handed doun front prophecies, to turies! It had been preached their ancestors,. foretelling the insitould they ha-thenni hence vesionof the Spaniards; that come en tremendously interested strangers should come into their in the Bible at this late hour? Island, clothed in :apparel, with Had the previous 'teaching just swords of cleaving a titan 111,11ntiPr .. to take effect? , begtin History . at a blow, under Ohms yoke, their - 5,,,..,. .,..7, Not th , should ',bows thst In all paele of be subdued." posterity I the .; Indium; illeplayed America shauld they he ao tremendously Washington .. 'Enthieet, Columbus." Mom interttet at first than they exited about this age-olIn the year 1833 and send the delei vs did after they had etudicti the Mr. Bouilinot. In American An .: gation to St. Lotils- in search of ,. new religion for a white. Ithien tiquities says: "It is said among ' Chriawith illitt that which they treacle had? Is it familiar ,became they their principal or beloved men, that ...... unreastinable to believe that the Ilan principle the new philosoIt: they have it handed down from news of the pub ication of the ' phy became ripugnent to them, book ancestors, tho that the f. ,their t them end r assacres'foliewed. This w as,. Book of lkihrmon reached while people now have was once true In eveery. secticin of Korth .: twelve years late in about the while had .: that It theirs; they 'L they ..',.Amer cA, from Puget Sound to the same manner that the knowledge : prospered execediogly, etc, ..,..- ..... i St. Lawrence and front Sen. Diego of the 'white inen's eligion reached also v their. that say 'They father, to St,! Auguatirie. them? 'were possessed of an extraordinary. , t.... 7 ' '... '. The Spanish and English were Information divine epirite by which' they tore, ' Tracing ' as desirous to convert the natives .. It is superstitious to assume told future events, and vontrolled : 1 the French. The Pope. its were '.. the- common count of nature; and that these tribes In the far. west att..: .. st..,' dies:every of had learned of t the Bock of Morshortly after the their 'this to transmitted they America. bad, give r at his opinion mon through eastern trappers who spring, on condition of their ibey.r..:. t' .t that the natives of America were Were now in the west, or i 'front log the tittered iawic that, they did the Lost Tribes of s reel. Thie Idea. other !Indian tribes whose mtein- by these means bring down show. tie well as the econernic motive. led Cr. of blessings upon their beloved bers bait learned of the nOldies. .: the colonizers to snare nothing in alion tit the Book of Mormon end people', but that this power''for - : ' y a long time hae entirely the glad . had relayed the Information ceased'' their attempt tor-arrto tki the tribes On the Pacific ectset? Again, ha says; "There is tradimessage to eviryi 'hild of tile for., .. I tion related by an Indian of the From 1829, end for Maeylyears est. ''71', Stockbridge tribe, that their fath.:-- I thereafter, the papers In ;the east Taking Bible to Indians y were once in possession of a Art the southwes while the were filled with such headlines es : eared book, r which ,was, handed blood was ea I dripping from The iGultlen Bible fleveaied front .. . .. down to' front and as widegenera., Pizzero, Was of generation the swords Iteavertu.This most ihtt ... (or , Hon; and at last hid in the earth. the Franciscan wa rushing far in- ly thecurated topic of the day. and mince which Bine, they have been , 7. i came ;just at the time the vanland, taking ihel Bible to the under the feet of their enemies.. .' thria the of western ', homseetkers guard? heilthert As earl ag es , ' But re.. were to these oracle' 'IL be infar ,'. demibed a 'pled Were penet finditsg permanent Spenieh stored to them again, end then diey.. tt 1., cite in the region of the Columbia. land as the prese t state of Kan- would triumph over their enemies, t. sas had explored tie Pacific coastDuring ell these Years itet t ler and regain their. right' and privilegwere also chiming by water and to the Columbia, land had pentw Weristing-,--Parleee."--Voice of ., ii. therefore the transfer ef this intrilled the southw t eel far as the P. Pratt. ' is not at at impose terestingnews present confines o Utah. Continued Nest Week) Bible. It is Mack very teationeble to Father Eacalante was not. the , 1, believe that dila informettnn firat priest to introduce the Raman could, have been carried by InBEN NIOW GEN MAUNA' civilization. far 'Malt& Far decades t, tilanth being transferred by one the Spanish bad maintained thriv .S,....; ...,.. On a recent trio to Great twin... 'I tribe ;to smother, MK misalanic 'in the southwest. S. Hen ...' studying genealogyMoward An Piample It. where the cattragerms Dominican.. and information .:. .5 Mon, .. procured while the This may seem impoesible In Frenchman, and ler a made contacts which bhuuld be ... 1 to view of many numerous the the Jeanne, carried Gospel langiteges ., ... ...;.,. helpful and interesting to all faml . ... Involved in the exchange, Ista his. 4 lies concerned with genealogy in Euro.- e first Cardenas led ': tory furnished many examples of tiortht!' i. the following parishes in .,',... ' the rapid transfer of information petting to the Grant Canyon of the .'. ... Wales; Howartions. Caverns Hope, , Colorado In t540:F then followed among different tribes. most hot-abl- e Flint, Mold, Brotigholn and Nan. of which Is 'known as, PontiEspill in 1583. ami Onate in 150S, i Own. Ali Interested are requested ac's Conspiracy. . Pontiac was the who was the first a make permato communicate with 8. O. Bennisith chief of the were used hich Ottawas, settlements principal, pent care of The Deseret Nests. s. .' whose' desire it was to enlist the as bases froth which the valiant united support 'of the Indiana In it priests invaded it interior. The ., Honor Is like the eve, which eon. ,, . final etruggle to expel the English firat mission in lb sauthwezt was .' not Su f f er the least imintrity st ithfrom the new world. In the latter.. built in 1625 at watahl. from Lihe Liotio or out a 1763 of he damage. atnsent the year which-manpi part - , priest visited numerstone, the prive of which is lessenbassadora to the different Indian ous tribes. Thus title Jartiestown e ed by a single flaw tribes They visited the country of was in its infanc, before Roston 4 -the Ohio and its tributaries, plowwas founded by 1BIT ' '' a inthrop: when Idea An fixrd is purpose, .. of to the ed the northward .region Charles the Firs was King ofwhich, from time to time, you ran Greatl Lakes Istict Into Kanatits anti n d Laut was Archbishlife.--V- an steer 1.):!,ke. England your Mouth of , the far southward !near op of Canterbury, a Ffanciscart the litississipph The blow was to Is a Sin lie hut has tools. Frair named Parra a ministered to Imlay a; be struck at certain time to be the handle that lit e them alt. the Dant of the uthwest. determined by! the change el the Wendell Holmes. (II Found Moth r )111asion were to 11100FLI Tile tribes V4ious In 1760, before the Revolution- ' rim each destroying the Team together, give sip my el'OW13, anti re. of mission ary War, .the mother English tterrison in Ate neighbortoy tire Irvin penerI I eau gull at San was fnunded California hood. ;and then:with a genii ill ;rush, and lira in a cottage- - I Can followed in rapid Diego. Others of warriors was to 11,are the whole, body a bittek arukiatte my On head stleratialorb In ,27751 the Indiana re. .I. turn upon the.Englisit implement life; but t cannot break my oath, belied. burned the mission pad, ' on the' frontier. ...Tile woods from George III of Elightriti killed ON' loading priest. ... ' ' to Georgiawere Itudson the By to seem good English, coloniza tion is a repoInfested with War parties. Ilyproerisy tion of this tragic story of Km Cumin y de-- At Detrolt, the night of May 6, titan of the ''hit e man's biir, than to before the nittesaere was to be pervis sides to be ble among the n tives, John Elirk. an Indian women revealseem petrated, ji, de,. Inliot called the Ai elle to the ed the plot to the English. At some of the posts the plot was carried dians, did. more Minn any other enn, un'ootrdd itshomuaoseree knowla to brit master ; thy it Into execution,l; but on the whole settler English to the ,recwas; a failure.! 4 thee edge of Christianity The Interesting thing about the - sire illie imen After years lot labor antang ywriple. Narrow Snot (bent he decided to tractiate the conspiracy is the F pi'? Od with which tem like narrow nee ed bktiev; thenotes the plans eirculatrd among the Rude into their language with the in them,' the metre have they tribes. ., hear wound all then of that tnany' hope , 11 le they make in Ouring it S. and A.ccept, the new religiott just as possible fur the glad Were well vereed in 0 . , - ' , .' - ;, , Irving--"Christop- lier i t:t s .i d t i . .. 1. :. .. i 5,-....- . 1. . ' 111 , THE DESOET NEWS, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1938. ; ! a' . , , I - ' : - L. ' . , . . . I , se.- , ' - t . '5 .: . ., . ' ' ha-M- . ,.,:4 . i t "....-:- .. , -- y. - ..,- ''- . ' vi. 4'1. l , (kit. , ....z-.- , - 1 ,:. J. - . : ... ::5- ' ',5 . " 1. , 4i1 , - . '. ' ''' an . , |