Chronicles of Oklahoma
Volume 5, No. 2
June, 1927
REMINISCENCES OF LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS
BY REV. J. J. METHVIN
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It was the summer of 1885...received a letter from Bishop Hargrove
asking me to come to Indian Territory and take charge of New Hope
Seminary, a Choctaw female school, under the auspices of the church.
The New Hope Seminary was a Choctaw national school situated sixteen
miles west of Fort Smith, not far from the Arkansas River near what was
then called Sculliville, or Oak Lodge. It was run by the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, under a contract with the Choctaw Nation, and
was supported conjointly by the church and the Nation.
The history of the school would form an important item in the history
of Oklahoma for it had much to do through the many years of its
existence in moulding the character and shaping the lives of the
womanhood of the Choctaw people. Here was the beginning of my work among
the Indians. History clutters around the lives of individuals and the
biography of any outstanding character of a nation gives an insight into
the history of that nation not only during the period in which he lived
but on through the years to come.
Soon after taking charge of New Hope Seminary there
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came to visit me the Rev. Willis Folsom, a member of the Indian
Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was
tall, erect, eagle-eyed, a typical Indian. He was sweet-spirited, a
pure-hearted, man of God and holy purpose. He represented the highest
type of Christian character among his people. We worked much together.
Let me give this instance.
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