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the stockbridge mission 8l have laid our dwelling in ashes as little could have been saved provided all had escaped with their lives the fire originated from a defect in the construction of the hearth the loss of property is perhaps not more than 60 or 70 dollars in no event of my life have i ever seen more manifestly the hand of god & none scarcely in which it deserves more devoutly to be acknowledged it was his watchful providence who never slumbereth nor sleepeth which awaked me for i retired sab eve unusually fatigued with the labors of the day & had rested quietly until that time beyond which all human efforts to have saved our dwelling would have been wholly abortive blessed be god for altho he has chastened us still he has remembered mercy and spared our dwelling c in this inclement season of the year may we be more entirely devoted to him in future 25th christmas at a council previously called the nation of their own accord resolved to spend the day in a religious manner it has usually been a day of mirth & festivity amongst the young people we met at the usual hour of meeting on the sab and had religious exercises and devoted the afternoon to the cause of temperance there was a general attendance at meeting all day and i returned home rejoicing that god had put it into their hearts to spend the day so differently and profitably too from what it had been spent in years previous 28th spent a part of the day in visiting passed some menominie wigwams and hearing the sound of a native drum concluded that they were performing some religious rite and i stopped to witness it as i approached i heard a number of men singing a native tune which was responded to by the women emitting the sound thro the nose so that at a distance it sounded like persons in distress when i came up i inquired what was going on within mani-to kan-so grand-medicine-dance one replied very seriously and went on to tell me that a child was sick & expected to 7
Object Description
| Language | English |
| Pagination | ix, 491 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XV (1900) |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | XML |
| Source Creation Date | 1900 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvXV0000 |
| Description | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 15, includes the following articles: Some Wisconsin Indian conveyances, 1793-1836; Sketch of Cutting Marsh, by John E. Chapin; Documents relating to the Stockbridge mission, 1825-48; Reminiscences of life in territorial Wisconsin, by Elizabeth Thérèse Baird; A Methodist circuit rider's horseback tour from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, 1835, by Alfred Brunson; Diary of one of the original colonists of New Glarus, 1845, by Mathias Duerst, translated into English by John Luchsinger; Pioneering in the Wisconsin lead region, by Theodore Rodolf; Surveying in Wisconsin in 1837, by Franklin Hatheway; Report on the quality and condition of Wisconsin territory, 1831, by Samuel C. Stambaugh; Narrative of Louis B. Porlier; Osawgenong, a Sac tradition, by George Johnston; Narrative of Alexis Clermont; and Narrative of Peter J. Vieau. |
| Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XV (1900) |
| Volume | Vol. 15 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; v. 15 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Description
| Language | English |
| Page | 81 |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | JP2 |
| Source Creation Date | 1900 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvXV0101 |
| Volume | Vol. 15 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; v. 15 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| Full Text | the stockbridge mission 8l have laid our dwelling in ashes as little could have been saved provided all had escaped with their lives the fire originated from a defect in the construction of the hearth the loss of property is perhaps not more than 60 or 70 dollars in no event of my life have i ever seen more manifestly the hand of god & none scarcely in which it deserves more devoutly to be acknowledged it was his watchful providence who never slumbereth nor sleepeth which awaked me for i retired sab eve unusually fatigued with the labors of the day & had rested quietly until that time beyond which all human efforts to have saved our dwelling would have been wholly abortive blessed be god for altho he has chastened us still he has remembered mercy and spared our dwelling c in this inclement season of the year may we be more entirely devoted to him in future 25th christmas at a council previously called the nation of their own accord resolved to spend the day in a religious manner it has usually been a day of mirth & festivity amongst the young people we met at the usual hour of meeting on the sab and had religious exercises and devoted the afternoon to the cause of temperance there was a general attendance at meeting all day and i returned home rejoicing that god had put it into their hearts to spend the day so differently and profitably too from what it had been spent in years previous 28th spent a part of the day in visiting passed some menominie wigwams and hearing the sound of a native drum concluded that they were performing some religious rite and i stopped to witness it as i approached i heard a number of men singing a native tune which was responded to by the women emitting the sound thro the nose so that at a distance it sounded like persons in distress when i came up i inquired what was going on within mani-to kan-so grand-medicine-dance one replied very seriously and went on to tell me that a child was sick & expected to 7 |