Report-1853, April 12

The following is taken from a report from J.T. Perry, P. E. of Kansas District

.

Fort Leavenworth, Ind., M. S. School,
Apr. 12, 1853

   Our missions among the Shawnee, Delawares, and Wyandott Indians, all things considered, are doing as well as at any former period for several years past. During the past winter, the Shawnees suffered a great deal from sickness; a great many of them died.

   The case of one poor young woman we cannot forbear to mention. She had been a scholar in the F. L. I. M. Labor School for several years, but had returned to her people–the Delawares–and some months before her death was married to a young man of her own tribe. Her sickness was very severe, but of short duration, She endured it with true Christian fortitude, expressed her full confidence in the merits of Christ her Savior, and just before she departed, she asked her husband to open a small bundle and take out a little money, which she had carefully put away, and requested him to give it to the support of missions as her last earthly token of gratitude to God for spiritual the blessings which, under God, she owed to missionary effort. With even one such case before us, how shall we slacken our missionary efforts?

   The Fort Leavenworth Indian Manual Labor School is still in a very prosperous condition; perhaps it never was more so. I cons1der that it is doing great good among the tribes for whose benefit it was built up.

   The many deaths among the Shawnee last winter has made it necessary to take in a great many orphan children. The school, during the last winter, numbered about 100 scholars.”

Kansas District – J.T. Peery, P. E.

Fort Leavenworth, M. L. School, T. Johnson.

.

[Annual Report of Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopa1 Church, South, Copy in vault of K.S.H.S. copied from original in Nashville, TN.]