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REPORT OF THE BATTLE Source: The American Advocate of Peace and Arbitration, Vol. 53, No. 2 (FEBRUARYMARCH, 1891), p. 52 Published by: World Affairs Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27898321 . Accessed: 16/02/2014 20:29
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52

THE AMERICAN

ADVOCATE

OF PEACE

AND ARBITRATION.
REPORT OF THE BATTLE.

marvellously busy one. The titles only of his published and unpublished works would fill half a column of the Advocate. He wrote nothing not instinct with thought and alive with suggestion.

[This seems to us as reliable as anything we can get

about this sad and lamentable

of Indian Affairs Commissioner received a report from Indian Agent Roy er at Pine Ridge, dated Dec. 31, giving an account of the fightatWounded Knee PATON'S BIOGRAPHY. Creek two days before. The report says : From the best The readers of the Advocate do not need to be told information I can obtain Big Foot and his band surren dered toMajor Whiteside, and while they were disarm how heartily we endorse the following from The Watch The
;

affair.?Ed.]

man

uThe most remarkable book thatwe have had the oppor tunity of reading lately, is the autobiography of John G. in theNew Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. We know not where a more apostolic spirit could be
found than Paton, who has been for a generation past a missionary

this soul for the Lord Jesus Christ makes one think of Paul himself; and also like to that of Paul is the longing
of this

these

pages

reveal.

The

tender

affection

of

He

ous,

literally like Paul, 'in deaths oft.' He passed through almost indescribable trials and perils ; 'perils in the city, in the wilderness, in the sea ; perils of rivers, of
robbers, hold of

was

missionary unclean savages

for the

souls

of

the

for whose

lost

souls

bloody, he was

treacher seeking.

them all the Lord

wonders of

false

brethren, salvation

delivered him, and spared him to be

among the heathen. Nothing

of

the

heathen'?yet

out

of

from his seat and began to cry out, "Kill the soldiers; their bullets will not have any effect upon our ghost shirts," at the same time stooping to the ground, picking up handfuls of dirt, throwing it up in the air, and after a short performance of perhaps two minutes, he fired his ' gun in the direction of the military. This started the war that resulted in the killing of Captain Wallace and twenty-five soldiers, wounding thirty-five soldiers, some fatally, and the killing of a large number of Indians known as the Big Foot band, or the hostile band of Sit from the police and ting Bull Indians who escaped military at Standing Rock Agency immediately after the killing of Sitting Bull. There are at the agency, under the care of themilitary, fifty-onewounded Indians of the
Foot Big children. condition, band, None so far four as men of these I am women and and forty-seven are considered in a dangerous able to learn, as and they look

ing them

an

Indian

known

as

their

"medicine

man"

rose

God

to a Christian heart could be more affecting than the love that some of the converts in their dying hours showed to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Men who had been wild and savage cannibals so changed by the grace of
as to become, even

This

biography
upon

is a bright illustration and encouraging

Paul's word to the Roman Christians

on

earth,

sweet,

heavenly

spirits.

recover. Rev. Charles S. Cook, though they would Episcopal minister at this agency, is kindly allowing his church to be used to shelter the w?unded Indians. He has thirty-eightof the number in his church, and is doing
a northeast

'I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the I am store, recently occupied by Prescott & Robertson. Power of God unto Salvation, to Every One that Be informed that the military had every preparation made "
lieveth.' to feed and care fur the Indians and their intention was to take

commentary

for. This battle occurred at a point about twentymiles

from the agency, known as the Wounded Knee

missionary's

part

to

see

that

they

are

properly

cared

NEW
John

TRACTS

Blr JOHN
of

H EM MEN WAY.
Park, Minn., has

but the attack, which ended practically as I have stated,

upset all plans.

them

to Gordon,

Neb

, the nearest

railroad

point,

The party sent to Wounded Knee to bury the dead published "Thoughts for the solemn consideration of all Indians found and buried eighty-four males and sixty a Christians" in the form of four-paged tract. In view of three females and children. It was also found that five the place which mercy has in the divine economy he says : had been buried In addition to this by the Indians. on earth, war, when all atrocious crimes committed "Of total of 152, we have heard now and then of others who practised and approved by professed Christians, is un have been carried away by hostile scouts, etc., sufficient the greatest." questionably to swell the number of dead Indians, as a result of the By this all men shall know that ye are my disciples, if battle of Wounded Knee, to fully two hundred, with 35. love one to another.?John xiii. ye have several others yet to die in the improvised hospital here. In view of the indissoluble and sacred as well as joy giving bond ofmarriage he writes : "Alas! how many millions of women have been made The narratives recorded in the Old Testament of the widows, in time of war, by the husbands of other women. kings of Israel and Judah are full of illustrations of the And how many thousands on thousands of men, by being pregnant words of Josephus, the great historian of the soldiers, especially in Christian (?) Europe, are kept from Jews, who, after to many of these referring narratives,
Hemmenway marriage. And

St. Anthony's

their loved wives by the cruel power of conscription." He will send the tracts to an}T address, postage paid,
for one cent each.

how

many

husbands

have

been

torn

from

sums

up

in these

words:

"To

by war, or failed of success when without war they com mitted themselves to God." (Book v. 414.)?George Gillett. The Pope has consented to act as mediator between Portugal and Belgium, in the event of the difficultieswhich have arisen in connection with the delimitation of the the province of Angola, on the Congo.

produce

no

example

wherein

our

in we can speak general, fathers got any success

It is not the deed we do, the deed be never so fair, Though But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.?Christina

0.

Rosetto.

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