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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1882)
e crrrusTiAX’ ii Lit a , t .i) X ance was not large, as it was only * bait in the innonedge of the side literature in the public library, Last evening I ha«l the pleasure, the second day of the meeting, yet’ walk that passes the Stowe man New England Letters. sion., A'monument of sandstone with several others, of spending an we fouml a goodly number of has !>een erected to the memory of hour .in Hunnewell's semi-tropic preachei’s on hand. First, and NCMBKRIE John Eliot in the little park across and Italian gardens, which are be most-prominent amongst these, was * B ailey ,’ s ‘H otel , the way, near the location of the tween here ami the Coll«‘g«\ I ean- that noble spirit and indefatigable SOUTH N atick M ass !ü!?Pa!^ilnffnffBTfffn?lR^a!Tlie=ofHdis^ "not begin to tcllyou li<»w r iiiagni- t worke'r7T?r*K=^?==K!enffrm:kT=wiio is < Aug. 15, 1882. hears the simple inscription, “.John ficent wore the ribbon beds of ever active in the Master’s cause. Dear Friends aFHorne': Get down your history and geo Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, Lorn foliage plants, nor how perfectly Bro. G. H. Kinkade, of' Oakland, graphy as I have done, and go with 1604, «Ins! May 20, 1600.” The gorgeous the -immense plots of and his half brother, J. H. Reddle, me over this -old historic ground rear side an open Bilde will) the geraniums. The ccslar hedges and of Artesia, were also present. Of To add interest and a bit of ro- legend, “ Up Biblum God,” (The lawns smooth as velvet,, the’ hot- younger men, we note Bros. J). G. Wright, John -Coats, JX S. WardI— mance to Have I given yon too many upon the walls like vines, loaded low, W. S. Young, W. R Laurence, down as well Mrs. Stowe’sOhl Town Folks,” for this is the “ Old dates,! am trying to learn to re I now. with yellow peaches, the rock W. W Borden, J. W.‘Fulton and Town ” of her story, and people member them myself, and thought s' cries, vases, drives ami fountains, Bro. WT I). F razee, who came in later here tell of» her characters that are you might not object to a few the terraces, with stone steps, lea«l- in the week. Bro. B. F. Colter, of ing to the take, if you had seen Los Angeles, admitted, wlthouUa but Himsily disguise«! , by other stat i sties. - There is some ' disagreement them _iJI you woul«l not wonder discenting voice, to be the most names. The Stowe Homestead stands surrounded by apple trees about it; but most insist that the that Bostonians delight to honor popular preacher in this part of the that must be, at least, a century old oak under which Eliot used to the man who gives so much beauty State, had, on account of failing - old, within a stone’s throw from my stand when preaching to the In- freely to delight the eyes of every- health, left for Kentucky, a few temporary home, and in the ancient dians is the one down the road. one who will come and look upon days before the’ opening, of the meeting. ' . . cemetery, back of the ol«l church, You will remember Longfellow’s it.- The above list gives a fair show It has been raining to-day; a the lames of Prof. Stowe’s kindred sonnet to the Eliot oak. Boston’s water- supply is not far still steady rain, to which the trees ing for laborers^ present ami pros repose with, the Peabody’s and pective in this field now most pro Bigejows-7 and Eliots, whd were from here, once jcaried tne Long lift up their leaves in gratitude. mighty men in their day. I have Pond, now Lake Cochituate. It - I shall go to the College soon, mising in results for work bestowed. "searched “among thu" moss “grown- furnrshes n.. -pleasant place for a though the term does not open for Tins' sttction'Tike almost every part of the West, is cursed with division stones, getting down in the moist pic-nic party to speml the day, ami 'nearly three weeks. j M ary S tump . and a rampant partizan spirit; but grass to rub green and mold from I know you would |>ave l>een ex cite«! yourselves the other day to unlike the East, where the people forgotten headstones; the oldest V From Bro. T. F. Campbell. are chained. to their altars, here one I found was dated 1730. Elm have seen the manoeuvres of a they will come ami hear, ami many D owney C ity , C ai . , trees shade every part of the large party oi children irom New of them, believing and confessing, Aug. 26, 1882. ground, and a thick stone wall ton Highlands out for a frolic. From San Francisco we go north are baptized and added to the Lord. - keeps the spot seclude« 1. The pre- There were all manner wf convey- The meetings has now l»een in sent village burial ground is some ances and they stopped, to water.'and north-east to Lathrop, nnd distance away. As far back as their horses at the hydrant in the ' then we trend away to the south progress one week. The attendance 1646, (just, think of that date for square, shouting, singing and laugh . east alout five hundred miles to is good ami increasing, especially in America,) the missionary John Eliot ing till everyone in town came out this place. We passe« 1 over the the evening. There is no cause to began to preaclnto the Indians on to see what was the matter. That mountainous and most interesting complain of the ohler observed or this fair southern slope where the hydrant, too, stands where the old part of the road by night. We ha«l the attention given. Only a few river Charles crooked its bright pump stood, that was a source of no opportunity, therefore, of seeing have yet obeyed the Gospel. Indi waters through the village of a joy to passengers and horses on the the long tunnels and the celebrated cations are favorable for satisfactory numerous tribe. The bright waters old Hartford coaches years before loop, that prodigy of engineering. results before we close. still gurgle on their way, but our grandmothers were bom, The track passes through a tunnel, I am agreeably surprised at the Thomas Wai »an, a son of Eliot’s makes a complete circuit around number, strength and harmony of beneath the stone arches of a first convert here, was at one time the mountain of one mile in extent, the churches in this part of the civilized bridge, while a few hundred yards farther up stream may still justice of the’ peace, and, as an and crosses e itself seventy •/ or ei«ditv o J State. The minutes of this meet l>e seen the foundations of the old offset to some we have already feet above and nearly over the en- ing, which will l»e sent you for Indian bridge built in John Eliot’s heard, I have copied for you one of terance of the tunnel. We saw but publication, will give a fair show time. Faithfully, for fifty years, his arrest warrants which reads, little <>f the country until we ing and a hopeful outlook for «lid this zealous worker, strive to “You, you big constable; quick reached the Los Angel«*s valley, of Southern California To these I re christianize the savages, and trans you catchum Jeremiah Offscow ; which we will speak more particu fer you for statistics.- Love to all the brethren. lated into their language both ()1<1 strong you hôldum ; Si safe you larly in another letter. At Los o o Yours in Christ, an«l New Testaments, which came bringum afore me.”—Thomas Wa- Angeles we left the trunk line of from the Cambridge press in 1663. barn, J. P. • the Southern Pacific, and took the One of these I »oaks is in the library But however much we love the St. Diego branch to this place, From the California Meeting. —— — * at Natick proper, an«l they do say legendary tales of a vanishe«! race twelve miles distant, where we D ownf . y C ity , C al ., there is also one in some dark or pore over the musty records of found the Southern California Aug. 27, 1882. corner of the Harvard library. our ancestry, we hearken with more State Meeting in session under a Bro. Stanley : Our meeting does finely. We , Eliot’s successor was one of his con of th«» feeling of being alive to frame work of poles thatched and have a crowd an«l the l>est order. verts, Takawampbait. The Indian what the present generations are walled on the north and partly on Bro. Campbell is doing some of his graveyard dates much farther back < loi ng, an«l I listen gladly to the the east with flags, or what they best preaching. Sy far eight addi than the one I have just told you ( librarian as he foils me of the iin tions, and we look for more Will of, for the principal part of the ! provements they are going to have, an open space of about an acre, en send nrir.vtes as soon as J can, and town is built over Indian bones. ami the means they infoml to em- compassed by the railroad track on as fully as possible. To-day we There is nothing to mark it now ( ploy toeduéâfo the working people the west and lines of willows on have heavy work and must econo mize time and strength. sava the headstone of Takawamp- I by giving them access to good the remaining sides. The attend- C. K endrick . * Correspondence. •I '» - »J