Identifier: souvenirofbethan00rykk (find matches)
Title: Souvenir of the Bethany Indian Mission
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Rykken, T. M
Subjects: Bethany Indian Mission (Wittenberg, Wis.) Missions Indians of North America
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Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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rlisle Indian School, making a splendidrecord. At the outbreak of the Philippine War, he was sentas leader of a small military band, and stayed two years.He was honorably discharged, appeared at our office one day,and was exceedingly glad to be back here. The first he saidwas, Mr. Jacobson, your mission school has brought me thegreatest blessing in my life. The things taught me here,viz, what Christ did for me, and what He expects of me hasbeen my guide so far. I now want to take up a course inyour academy, and see if I cannot do something for my peo-ple that they too may see the light. Tom entered our academy, but God willed it otherwise.He was taken sick and died. During his sickness our pastorvisited him, and gave us the assurance that Tom died a be-lieving Christian. The principal of our academy made thestatement, Tom was the most orderly, prompt, and well be-haved student at the academy. Many other instances might be related. From the time our mission was started up to the spring
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of 1920 we have baptized 351 infants and adults. We haveconfirmed 112, and have had 425 attendants at communion. God has opened the door. We have now splendid quar-ters, and room for some 50 or CO more than we have atpresent. We have also received applications for more thanthis number, but where are our means? We need beds andbedding, school desks, and means to support these unfor-tunates. When we think, back to the time we began the work here,and think of the obstacles confronting us, and how differentthe attitude of the average Indian to our mission is now, wemust wonder and exclaim, Blessed be the Lord God, theGod of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things (Ps. 72:18). As God has opened the door for us, will not you, kindreader, with prayer and gifts do your part to the end thatour work may be enlarged, and all these young may be ad-mitted into our mission, and become a salt among the re-maining people who still live in darkness? Will not you, out of the abundant blessings which, in

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