The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 17, No. 6, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 1, 1905 Page: 2 of 32
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i 72 THE INDIAN ADVOCATE
A Wilderness Apostle.
Perc Lacombe Heroic Afissionary of the
For Northwest
The name of Pere Lncombe the Oblate Missionary of the
Canadian forests is a somewhat familiar one to the
readers of Catholic papers where from time to time men-
tion of his labors has been made but perhaps not all Catholics
are familiar with the really great work which this unassuming
priest has accomplished. An appreciative sketch of his labors
and successes among the Indians is published in the April
number of Outing from the pen of Agnts C. Laut. Allow-
ing for the limitations of a magazine article it gives a com-
prehensive account of some of the most dramatic occurrences
in the life of Father Lacombe with a sympathetic glimpse of
the man himself.
"In the month of September" wrote Miss Laut "there
passed through Montreal on the way from France to the
foothills of the Rockies a distinguished figure unique for the
last three-quarters of a century in the annals of the great
Northwest.
"Doers of big things men who have made history we
still have with us; but not every maker of history has by the
mere lifting of a hand prevented massacres that might have
wiped out the frontier of a whole continent. Few leaders
have rallied half a hundred men to victory against a thousand
through pitchy darkness in the confusion of what was worse
than darkness panic. And not every hero of victory can be
the hero of defeat a hero for instance to the extent of
standing siege by scourge with three thousand dying and
dead of the plague men fleeing from camp pursued by a
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