Volume 13 Number 20

~ ~ No"e~~~ l ...... 1! No !. 1944 J. ~tt~{Iam mac{ltn (f'bftot t936~t937 l:Iil1!d1t11t One YeC!lr-$2.OO Published Twenty.three Times a. Year Ten Cents a Copy EDITORIAL COUNCIL 1505 Re..:e Street John P. Clelland John Patton Galbraith Thomas R. Birch Philadelphia 2, Pa. Leslie W. Sloat Ned B. Stonehouse Managing Editor Not the IILast of th'e Mohicans!" By the REV: JOHN DAVIES Orthodox Presbyterian Missionary to the Indians of Wisconsin I DO not know why J. Fenimore Cooper chose this done with other tribes, but they have gone on by God's descriptive title for his novel of Indian life in Amer grace. The Presbyterian church has not always been as ica, but no doubt he was aware that the Mohegan or faithful to them as was Jonathan Edwards, when he Mohican tribe of Indians was very small indeed when. withstood the pleadings of Princeton College to be it was settled in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1739, and had . come its president for a.time. Finally, however, he did become still smaller in the heroic efforts it made to leave the Stockbridgers with tearful farewell, but his help achieve freedom for the colonies. Theroster of the son, Jonathan Edwards, [r., carried on in his place. dead was very large-then; and in World War I it also The church's neglect of the spiritual welfare of the contained many names. At the present time that roster Stockbridgers in Wisconsin, to which they came in is again filling up. The Honor Roll of ourlittle church 1825, caused the Roman Catholic Church to start work near Gresham contains nearly twenty names. I among them near Gresham. The only remaining traces The history of the Mohican Indians has been largely of this work are a few graves in a graveyard. Then the a Presbyterian history. Humanly Lutheran pastors nearby, who speaking, the only reason there had been marrying the living and are any Stockbridgers-for this is burying the dead, started a church their popular name-left at all at and parochial school on the banks this time is that the Word of of a little lake now called Mission God was brought to them when Lake.Their effortswere more suc theY were first settled in Stock cessful. And again the Presbyte bridge, Mass., by the Scotch So rians started making fitful efforts ciety for the Propagation of the to minister to the Indians. But it Gospel. They became Christians was only when in 1930 the Rev. almost in a body within a short Arthur F. Perkins, Field Secre time and God has blessed them tary for Winnebago Presbytery richly in the past. Unscrupulous in Wisconsin, sent in a faithful white men from all walks of life preacher of the Word that the have sought to corrupt them and Indians were reached in any other scatter them, just as has been Members of the Ladies' Prayer Circle way than through routine church THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN November 10 I t ~ A Pottowattomi Wigwam in the Forest The Dormitory now in Process of Demolition I I services once a week at the most. Per one of those ties is an old Bible which sonal work, evangelistic meetings, was given to the early church by the ~ prayer meetings and catechism classes Rev..Francis Ayscough, Chaplain to were foreign to them. For long periods the King-are now showing more and of time they had not even had Sun more interest in our work. In the day school. Mr. Perkins often con meanwhile souls are being saved from ducted evangelistic services ill the lives of sin and corruption, children John Sargent Memorial Church dur of the covenant and others are being ing the five years of the ministry of instructed and led to the Saviour, and Harold HiIIegas,and many people were all are being taught God's Word in brought to a saving knowledge of the the various services, society meetings Lord. and classes. On Easter Day four adults It was a part of these people which and three young people were added to formed the nucleus for the Old Stock the rolls of the church. The old Pres bridge Orthodox Presbyterian Church byterian church has held no regular in 1936, at which time we were called services recently, and has had no Sun in to minister to them. Others chose day school for eight years. to stay in the John Sargent Memorial We do not believe that "finis" shall Church and in the "white" church in be written over the history of the the village of Gresham. However, Summer Bible School Pupils Presbyterian work among the Mohi some who have not chosen to sever (Continued on Page 318) connections with the old ties-and TABLE' OF CONTENTS November 10, 1944 ij j Not the "Last of the Mohicans" 309 .4 John Davies The Federal Council and Evangelism ... 311 Leslie A. Dunn What Is the I. G. F.7 314 Luther Craig Long A Reverie 315 Geoffrey Williams Editorial 317 Progressive Education: Part 2 319 Mark Fakkema A Creed to be Cherished· " 321 Robert L. Atwell Two Eritrean Missionaries 323 Charles E. Stanton Menominee.,' -., "'J ... Indian School Children A Pagan Grave Yard '111.·,,""~18lI Guardl~.., is published semi·monthly from September to july. inclusive, and monthlY In August bY The Presb>1erian Guardian Publishing Corpora· tl.b,' 728 SChaff Building, "505' Ra.. Street, Philadelphia, Pa.. at the following rates. payable lu advance. for eltber old or new subscribers lu any I!art of tbe world, pOsta.. nn})&i.d:' $2.00 per yea.r;',Sl.OO for ftvemonths; five or more copies either to separate addresses or in a package to one address. $1..25 ea.ch Per year; mtroductory rate for new _Ibers ~. tbre. montbs for 25.; 10c per single coPY. Entered ... sOC(llld cis.. matter March 4, 1937. at the Poat 0ftIc0 at Pbiladelpbia. Pa., under the Act of March 3. 1879. \ THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 311 The Fe'deral Council and Evangelism By the REV. LESLIE A. DUNN • Pastor of Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Wildwood, N. J. HE word "evangelism" has a defi Council and one who introduced the personal responsibility of each indi Tnite connotation in the minds of Commission on Evangelism in 1912, vidual and of the whole brotherhood most Christians. To many of us, only, declared evangelism to be the "procla to win others and live in right rela those persons known as Fundamental- mation of Christ, the author of that tions with them?" 6 ~;}sts could conceivably be interested in new life which beginning with a new Such evangelism, which sets forth evangelism. But upon examination we heart shall make all things new".2 But a message devoid of sin and guilt and find, men of all shades of theological the Council thereafter tried to make redemption, is "another gospel". The opinion advocating evangelism. What evangelism the instrument to mold a purpose of this ersatz evangelism is to shall we say then ,of those who have new society and a new world, and said telli to all that, God is personal and come to use even this shibboleth in little or nothing of the necessity of values each individual as His child, I a new and strange way? Certainly the new birth by which the Holy upon the proclamation of which a 1 evangelism meant something quite Spirit enters the soul to make a new world will result in which all different to our fathers than what it child of God out of a sinner. Dr. men will live 'together as brothers. means to many in our day. Samuel,McCrea Cavert, general sec But by this Federal Council defini \Vords that mean one thing to us, retary of the Federal Council, defines tion of the Good News, we are not howe.ver, are used to mean something this new view of evangelism when he enabled to recognize the beast at all: entirely different by those who have says, "We have Good News. for men He has become a beast of another forsaken the original moorings of the only when we can help them see that color but certainly not sufficiently Christian faith. There can be but one I there is a God Who wills a new tamed to be admitted into the inti true evangel and therefore only one world, Who has revealed in Christ macies of our churches and homes. true evangelism. Yet that does not what the nature of the new world is, preclude the possibility of a miscon and Who through Christ mediates Evangelism and Theology ception of the evangel and a use of more than' our human power for its Paul set forth a reasoned statement evangelism to make converts to a achievement't.s of the Christian faith. But though he perverted Christianity. Dr. Cavert views the Good News did set forth the whole counsel of The Federal Council of Churches on a world scale rather than in rela God to his heathen hearers, we are does not wish to give the impression tion to the conversion of individuals. told by the Federal Council today to that it is interested in every kind of Yet he does acknowledge that indi exercise better taste than Paul dis evangelism. It has plainly stated that viduals make up society and, in speak played at Athens and Thessalonica in the past evangelism "has been ing of repentance and conversion,he and elsewhere. It seems that the lead something of a. wild beast which, says that "in .every social task before ers of the Federal Council are allergic periodically aroused, has jumped ec us there is no need quite as great as to theology.

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