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He received the answer: 'If he believed as the Predestinarians believe, then he belonged to them, and might go to them, it did not concern us. For these reasons we believed to be all the more certain that they were not true Evangelical Lutheran preachers, and this we also told them without reservation."
"I've run with Injuns and fit 'em, too, enough to know their tracks in the dark, but, man, there ain't an Injun within two hundred miles of here, and besides they never got away with anything, there was nothin' gone, and Reservation Injuns ain't killin' for fun these days. That's right, too, about her not knowin' them if they were Injuns.
It instead afforded Him the supreme opportunity of His mission to assert in public, formally and without any reservation, the claims inherent in His Revelation. I am the One Whose name you have for a thousand years invoked, at Whose mention you have risen, Whose advent you have longed to witness, and the hour of Whose Revelation you have prayed God to hasten.
Then, hoping to lighten somewhat the fearful burden of woe borne by her parents, we placed those last mementos of her brief visit upon earth into the little black coffin that we had constructed, and gave the baby's garments a solemn burial alongside the mound of my partner, Peoria Red, and above the new mound we erected the other white cross to keep company with the first one, and tell its silent story to the passengers who flew past aboard swift trains, that two pitiful tragedies had been enacted at this lone section reservation within the short span of a few months.
"Suppose I have other engagements?" "Chuck them ah just for once!" "And maybe mother won't let me." "Well, tease her!" "And then," added Ruth, "you haven't met Marjorie Wilkinson. "Oh, forget her! I've seen her, even if I haven't met her. Her type doesn't appeal to me!" Ruth laughed good naturedly, and surrendered. But she made one reservation.
There they were assured by Agent Hart that Apache Springs and the creek referred to were not on the reservation, and that the government would protect them if they would settle there. It was understood that the reservation line lay about three miles south of the settlement.
If it meant less than that, it was mere cruelty. If it meant that A keen pang of disappointment shot through her. It was the only way to what she desired, but it was not the way which she would have preferred him to tread. Yet because it was the only way, she wished it with the reservation that it would have been much better if it could have happened in some other fashion.
Grover was coming into John Day Valley with 400 troops and had reached Prairie City, south of Canyon City, and about 45 miles from the Cummins Ranch. He was coming in ahead of the Indians and would have been in a position, with the troops under Howard, to surround and destroy the savages. He was, however, halted by orders from Howard and turned back to the Malheur Reservation. In justice to Gen.
But the white people never forgot the Custer battle, and looked upon Sitting Bull as a thoroughly bad Indian. He assumed to settle down, at peace, upon the Standing Rock reservation, in a cabin not far from the place where he had been born. But as he had said, he was not "an agency Indian," and did not want to be an agency Indian. There is another chapter to be written about Sitting Bull.
If on the other hand he tells him he is a splendid fellow, he believes it without reservation, and has a perfect right to believe it. "Did you see how that stunted little fellow with a snub-nose and bandy- legs, who is as broad as he is long, showed all his teeth in a delighted grin when I praised his steady hand?
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