Our Brother in Red. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 1, 1882 Page: 3 of 16
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OUR BROTHER IN RED.
The article from Rev. W. S. Der
•ick was received too late for the
September number of this paper,
ind was overlooked (unintentional-
y) when copy for October number
svas sent off. As it g^es a general
/eport of his work last year, we
publish it now though somewhat
out of date.
The Rev. W. B. Astin has made
one round on his cifcuit since Con-
ference, and reports the circuit in
very good conditiA. We will be
glad to have item! for this paper
from Erother Austin and all the
brethren. Write, brethren, if it is
only a postal card,*and let us know
of your work.
We think the decrease in mem-
bership in the Indian Mission Con-
ference reported in the minutes of
our last annual session is attributa-
ble to the imperfect reports given
of several charges. We believe the
M. E. Church, South, has more than
6,351 members in the Indian Terri-
We congratulate tl& y'ouug*Udy-
editors of the Logan fellege Acan-
thus in bringing out an interesting
and readable paper. Logan College
is located at Russellville, Ky., and
is presided over by that excellent
scholar and gentleman, President
A. B. Stark, L.I,D.
We have had pleasant visits re-
cently from RevsrJ. 0. Shanks, J.
W. Coward, J. N. "Moore, J. L.
Keener, and C. W. Myatt. These
brethren give good reports of the
work in the bounds of their respect-
ive charges. $
The infidel bows at the feet of no
one, but would have all to bow a,t
his feet. He wdfild defeat a Chris-
tian because he :is a Christian, and
condemn all who oppose an infidel
because of his infidelity.
We regret to learn that Rev. B
H. Greathouse is very sick at Eu-
faula. The physicians, when last
heard from, thought he was better,
and would get well.
Some one has said, beware of itin-
erants whose professions are local
in their tendency.
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A private note from our friend
and brother, W. D. McBride, Esq.,
of Boonsboro, Ark., announces the
death of his little daughter Lida.
She was a bright, sweet little girl,
and was greatly loved by all who
knew her. From personal experi-
ence we are prepared to deeply
sympathize • with our, bereaved
friends.
The Southwestern Methodist s the
name of a new paper published in
St. Louis, Mo., and edited by the
Rev. J. E. Godbey, of the St. Louis
Conference. Price .$2 per year; to
all ministers of the gospel, $1 per
year. Brother Godbey is sparing
no pains to make it a first-class
paper, and right welljs he succeed-
ing. &
The return of .Mrs. Stoddard, wife
of R(4. S. A. Stoddard, to her home
in Muskogee, I. T., is one of the
pleasant news items of the day.
Mr£ Stoddard has been spending
some months with friends at the
North. We fire glad to note some
improvement in her health^ theu^hj
"she is yet quite feeble.
Home. ♦
Mr. Editor There is a magic
about the word that stands at the
head of this article that belongs to
no other. There are memories flus-
tering around one's home that are
never lost sight of.
Home is not simply a place at
which one stays. Such places may
sometimes be any thing else but
homes in the truest sense of the
t
term.
Again, home does not consist in a
beautiful location, a fine house,
with a yard covered with shrub-
bery of every variety. Nor does it
consist in the abundance of wealth,
nor a multitude of friends, together
with every thing that will please
the eye or gratify the taste. We
may have all this, and still the
place we call home may be nothing
more than a staying place. Home
must be a place of rest and peace,
where love reigns supreme. Hearts
thus united are only drawn closer
togertlfer when blown upon by the
adverse winds of poverty and ^afflic-
tion. Of such a home as this, the
poet says, " there is no place like
home."
Shall I give you an account of my
recent visit to the home of my child-
hood and youth? What magic in
those two words, childhood and
youth! Last May, on my way to
Nashville, Tenn., I passed thnaigh
Kentucky,'and turned aside to look
again upon my native land, after an
absence of foriy-two years. It was
Saturday night)*at 11 o'clock; the
stage halted at the door of the hotel
in Columbia, Adair county. The full
moon was shining in all its beauty
over the town; I looked around
me, and every thing appeared as
natural as the day when I bid fare-
well to the scenes of my youth and
departed for the forests of the far
West. I could hardly believe I
was not a boy again.
Sunday morning, after breakfast,
I visited the old grave-yard, where,
forty-two years ago, lacking sixteen
days, I buried the wife of my youth,
and turned away that^iew
m*dew*v«3 with a FPfS -'
an impenetrable clond'upon alilho g
future. How I blessed God
hope of the resurrection, when all
our loved ones will be brought to
life again! After spending an hour
or two communing with the dead, I
returned to the town to find that
Brother Campbell, the presiding
elder of the district, had learned of
my arrival and had published an
appointment for me to preach at
ii o'clock a. m. A large congre-
gation assembled at the church,
and I entered the sacred desk with
feelings I never had before. I was
about to preach in the land of my
birth and the home of my youth,
and not more than two hundred
yards from the very spot where I
was converted o God forty-five
years ago; and yet the congrega-
tion before me, with one or two
exceptions, was composed of en-
tire strangers. It was hard for me
to command my feelings sufficient-
ly to preach, but I made out to tell
my experience. Well do I re-
member the old Methodist church,
and the remark of a man in the
back part of the congregation the
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