Marcus Whitman, Pathfinder and PatriotIn the Appendix is a group of short biographies. Among those described are: Rev. Samuel Parker, Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding, William H. Gray, Rev. Asa Bowen Smith, Rev. E. Walker, Rev. Cushing Eells, Cornelius Rogers, Edwin Oscar Hall and Andrew Rodgers. This work also includes a chapter on the monuments raised in honor of Marcus Whitman. |
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Page 47 - What mean ye to weep, and to break my heart ? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 108 - While I draw this fleeting breath, When my eyelids close in death, When I soar to worlds unknown, See Thee on Thy judgment throne, Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.
Page 334 - War: Sir — In compliance with the request you did me the honor to make last Winter, while in Washington, I herewith transmit to you the synopsis of a bill which, if it could be adopted, would, according to my experience and observation, prove highly conducive to the best interests of the United States, generally, to Oregon, where I have resided for more than seven years as a missionary, and to the Indian tribes that inhabit the immediate country.
Page 339 - That the said superintendents shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...
Page 26 - I came with an eye partly open for my people who sit in darkness. I go back with both eyes closed. How can I go back blind to my blind people? I made my way to you with strong arms through many enemies and strange lands that I might carry back much to them. I go back with both arms broken and empty!
Page 150 - In the interior of the territory in question, the subjects of Great Britain have had for many years numerous settlements and trading-posts ; several of these posts are on the tributary streams of the Columbia ; several upon the Columbia itself; some to the northward and others to the southward of that river.
Page 26 - You make my feet heavy with gifts, and my moccasins will grow old in carrying them; yet the Book is not among them. When I tell my poor, blind people, after one more snow, in the big council, that I did not bring the Book...
Page 229 - Two things, and it is true those which were the most important, were accomplished by my return to the States. "By means of the establishment of the wagon road, which is due to that effort alone, the emigration was secured and saved from disaster in the fall of '43. Upon that event the present acquired rights of the United States by her citizens hung. And not less certain is it that upon the result of emigration to this country the present existence of this Mission and of Protestantism in general...
Page 153 - The day after our arrival, Dr. Whitman called at our camp and asked me to accompany him to his house, as he wished me to draw up a memorial to Congress to prohibit the sale of ardent spirits in this country.
Page 26 - My people sent me to get the white man's Book of Heaven. You took me where you allow your women to dance, as we do not ours, and the Book was not there. You took me where they worship the Great Spirit with candles, and the Book was not there.