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The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March 1888 by Various
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So dear Dr. Powell has gone home! No one should feel sorry for him.
How grand and glorious thus to be called home to God! I do not think
the work here will suffer because he has gone from our sight. He is only
promoted. God will no doubt let him work on in heaven; only gone from
the ills that the flesh is heir to. Dead? Oh no! he is not dead. He is
living evermore. May we all be as ready as was he for the final call!

On the same day that he died, we trust that there passed through the
gates with him one of our Indian boys, whose cause Dr. Powell had so
eloquently pleaded. Harry Little-Eagle died like a hero. No one ever
suffered more for four months than he, and not once did his faith fail. He
prayed and sang, and talked for Jesus as long as his strength held out.
The night before he died his voice returned, and he said: "God gave it back
to me and told me to talk to the people." He did. He said: "I am
going home, God will give me a greater work there to do. Do not cry.
You must keep a stout heart and give my message to all the people."
Then he prayed, "O Father, keep a big work for me. I have not lived
here long. I have only known thee a short time, and I have been a great
sufferer. I have done nothing for thee. Keep some work up there for
me. I want to help you." Then he said: "Tell Winona to be brave;
tell her to have a strong will; tell her to seek out the lost; some will
believe and be saved. Tell her to continue to work for the people." I
asked, "Are you afraid now, when you are so near the water?" "No," he
replied, "I am in a hurry to go home." To his father he said: "God will
send you a comforter. I will help prepare a home for you, and my mother
and sister and brother. I shall wait for you."

His father, Little-Eagle, seems inspired. New Year's Day he stood up
before some Teton Indians and said: "I am one of you. You all know me.
You all see me. You see the same body that has been on the war-path
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