Our Brother in Red. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1882 Page: 1 of 16
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Christian Education <Ji«' Slope of the Indian.
Volume I.
MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TERRITORY, DECEMBER, 1882.
Number 4.
Our Brother in red.if.m,onu,ly t0 a semi-n,onth|y pub-
lication.
While we very highly appreciate
the motives and feelings prompting
these requests of our friends, we
will for other as well as the reasons
given above have to most respect-
fully decline granting of them.
One Year 50 cents
Mix Months 25 cents
RATES OP ADVERTISING.
Space.
1 Square
1 Column
I Line
One Month.
8 50
2 50
5
One Year.
I 5 00
20 00
For larger space special contracts will be
made.
All communications on business, or for the
columns of the paper, should be addressed to
the Publishers, at Muskogee, Indian Territory.
All dues payable monthly in advance.
Our Prospects.
We send out this month 1,000
copies of Our Brother in Red.
Some copies are sent to persons not
now—but we hope will be—sub-
scribers,. We do not wish to strike
from our listthe names of any one to
whom the paper is sent. Neither
do we wish to force it upon those
who do not want it. Therefore,
kind reader, you will oblige us very
much if you will notify us of your
wishes in the matter.
Words of approval have been re-
ceived from all directions, which
encourages us.
Intelligent and respectable per-
sons, living both in and out of the
Territory, have requested us to pub-
lish a weekly instead of a monthly
paper.
Several good reasons make the
granting of this request imprac-
ticable, viz.:
1. The importance of other min-
isterial work in this Conference for-
bids us giving the time necessary to
publish a weekly paper.
2. The field in which we operate
is too circumscribed to afford suffi-
cient patronage to support such a
paper.
3. The demands calling forth the
publication of this paper can, we
believe, be met by it as now pub-
lished. If this should not prove to
be true, we can easily change from
Building Parsonages.
The attention of our readers is
called to the above subject because
of the importance of it.
Every pastoral charge ought to
have a parsonage. The preacher is
thereby relieved of much care and
expense, and the membership of
the anxiety and trouble of provid-
ing a home for their pastor.
That member who has 110 anxious
thought about the welfare of his
preacher ought either to reform or
leave the Church, for he is unworthy
the sacred privileges it: affords.
To build a parsonage demands the
interest of both the preacher and
membership. A live, interested
preacher can infuse life and inter-
est into the people.
Be sure the people are fully in -
structed as to the importance of the
enterprise before asking for their
contributions. Then, when all are
ready, let the preacher head the
subscription with a liberal contri-
bution. lie can better afford to
give $50 to a parsonage-building
fund than to pay $100 to $125 for
house rent.
Never begin your collections with
a hat. If you begin with the hat
you will, most likely, end with it,
and in the majority of cases an al-
most empty one.
We deeply sympathize with the
Rev. J. W. Boswell, editor of the
Arkansas Methodist, in the death
of his son, Thomas M. Boswell.
He died in Morrillton, Ark., Nov.
11,1882, in the nineteenth year of
his age.
Death of the Rev. Dr. Buckner.
The Rev. II. F. Buckner, D.D.,
died at his home in Eufaula, I. T.,
Dec. 3, 1882, aged—lacking a few
days—sixty-five years.
This sad news will fill with sor-
row the hearts of many both in and
out of the Indian Territory.
He was appointed by his Church
(Baptist) in 1848 a missionary to
the Indians, lie left his native
State, Kentucky, and came soon
after his appointment to the Indian
ferritory, where for thirty-three
years he labored and toiled in the
Master's vineyard.
No missionary labored longer and
was more identified with the Creek
people than Dr. Buckner. Hun-
dreds, not to say thousands, of them
were received by him into ,tbe
Church. The fruits of ff'labor*
are seen all over the Indian Tor?]-
tory.
Dr. Buckner was fully conse-
crated to his work, and was ready
to give account of his stewardship
when the summons to die came.
On Sunday, Dec. 31, 1882, suit-
able memorial services are to be
held in the Methodist Church in
Eufaula, I. T. Some distinguished
ministers in the States are invited,
and, it is thought, will attend these
services.
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Cherokee Orphan Asylum Locals.
Col. J. M. Br yan, lately returned
from Washington, explodes the idea
that the Cherokees will soon draw
a large sum of money. The Old
Settler claim is in good shape, and
will doubtless be settled at an early
date. The Emigrant claim is in
statu quo for the want of some one
'o "push it."
Hon. G. W. Mayes, once member
of Board of Education, and Com-
mission Court of Citizenship, has
been appointed Superintendent of
Male Seminary, vice B. W. Alberty,
former incumbent.
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