Enjoy
Freedom
享受自由
Xiǎngshòu zìyóu
自由を享受する
Jiyū o kyōju suru
ps90
frui libertate
The afternoon breeze
blew through the trees
dispersing storm tossed leaves.
The place away from danger is a refuge.
Refugees flee to find safety for their use.
Like wolves we chose to move even in the night
to escape certain death as our plight.
This has been true from one generation to another.
War has been against your fellow man as brother.
It has driven non-combatants to a place that is other
than the one in which we had taken succor.
Spoils and taxes have driven war against some flutter
of threat created by news of some slaughtering snuffer.
War has to be limited to defense to be just.
The limitation will guide those who govern for us.
A thousand years in divine sight
are like one watch within the night.
We had been swept away like a dream.
Like the grass in the morning, we were green
then, we lost the moisture to feed our need.
We withered brown by the evening due to heat.
We consumed too much in displeasure.
We took beyond the seasoned measure.
We lost our faith for fear of wrath.
We lost our health upon this path.
We didn't change to meet the challenge.
Iniquity prevented the savagery to manage.
Guilt from secret sins held movement in check.
Power as a motive had become a train wreck.
Destruction makes sure the days are gone.
Years are shortened before they grow long.
The span of life is eighty years.
It's more like ninety when we shed fears with tears.
The sum of life is labor and sorrow
when we don't build law with love for tomorrow.
The power of production replaces wrath with math.
This is the power that civilization has.
Seek good, not evil, that you may live
as a model for living as one who gives.
Hate evil and love good for justice in the gate
to manage resources with patience in how to participate.
Who can be saved when judgment condemns the person?
Immortal strength selects statements that strengthen benign purpose.
Knowledge is like standing on a chair to get closer to the moon.
A step back for perspective will produce a fall with a consequential tune.
Different frames for perception produce a race
for perspective on how to rule out what is not the case.
The insect that lighted on the girl on a horse
was brushed away as the ordinary course
without remorse.
The pear blossom blooms in the early Spring.
The tree is seen as a beautiful thing.
Terrific thunder from the elder brother
produced good fortune unique to each other.
We have a high priest who has passed through the heavens.
Salvation from the Son of God lets us hold fast to our confession.
The one who serves Christ is acceptable for approval.
Slavery as protected by law has met with removal.
The Son has the power to take up life again.
The Spirit resurrects for the imminent presence to attend.
Variance in production with instruction from time
makes the value of our products seem sublime.
Learn from experience to teach yourself measure.
It is the gold which life does so highly treasure.
Replace the daze of affliction in adversity
with the ways of satisfaction in maturity.
Time turns mind back to the dust to say,
"Go back to earth like a child at play."
Who feels the power of your presence?
You are in the wonder of the divine essence.
Who loves the real feeling of true power?
You are growing in strength by the hour.
Teach us to value time for our hearts in wisdom.
We will learn to see mission with our vision.
How long will you wait?
Get this goal straight.
Be gracious with your love.
It is the message that came from above with the dove.
Satisfy us with your kindness in the morning,
so we may weather storms as life's adorning.
Make us glad by the measure of the days
in which we were afflicted in ways
that the endurance of adversity will be raised
as the emblem of virtue to be praised.
Show your work to your loved ones.
Your splendor will shine like the sun.
Productive action makes the power to alleviate distress.
The rule for production blends thought into action to eliminate mess.
May your grace be with us.
The fruit of labor will be discussed.
We see that we saw the soul as one
in the products of our love.
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Psalm 90
Domine, refugium
Dominated, our refuge
1 Lord, you have been our refuge
from one generation to another.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
or the land and the earth were born,
from age to age you are God.
3 You turn us back to the dust and say,
"Go back, O child of earth."
4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past
and like a watch in the night.
5 You sweep us away like a dream;
we fade away suddenly like the grass.
6 In the morning it is green and flourishes;
in the evening it is dried up and withered.
7 For we consume away in your displeasure;
we are afraid because of your wrathful indignation.
8 Our iniquities you have set before you,
and our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
9 When you are angry, all our days are gone;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The span of our life is seventy years,
perhaps in strength even eighty;
yet the sum of them is but labor and sorrow,
for they pass away quickly and we are gone.
11 Who regards the power of your wrath?
who rightly fears your indignation?
12 So teach us to number our days
that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord; how long will you tarry?
be gracious to your servants.
14 Satisfy us by your loving-kindness in the morning;
so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.
15 Make us glad by the measure of the days that you afflicted us
and the years in which we suffered adversity.
16 Show your servants your works
and your splendor to their children.
17 May the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us;
prosper the work of our hands;
prosper our handiwork.
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Romans 14:18
The one who serves Christ is acceptable to God for human approval.
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The one who serves Christ is acceptable for approval.
Slavery as protected by law has met with removal.
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John 10:18
'The Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. I laid it down of my own accord. I have the power to lay it down. I have the power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.'
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The Son has the power to take up life again.
The Spirit resurrects for the imminent to attend.
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Reservations
Ps.90:1
Lord, you have been our refuge
from one generation to another.
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Cornelius Hill
b. November 13, 1834, tribal land in Wisconsin
d. January 26, 1907, Oneida, Wisconsin
He was ordained to the diaconate on June 27, 1895.
The native name for Cornelius Hill was Onan-gwat-go (“Big Medicine”). He was the last hereditary chief of the Oneida Nation. He also served as a priest for the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in his last years.
Cornelius was born on tribal lands in Wisconsin in 1834. His parents belonged to the Oneida tribe. The Oneida were with the Iroquois confederacy in New York state. They were known for their longhouses and communal lifestyle.
They were not opposed to settlement or agriculture. The period of time into which he was born was characterized by significant change in the relations between Native and European Americans.
About 80,000 members of the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole Nations lived on land that many Americans felt could be more profitably farmed and settled by non-Indians by the early 1830’s.
All five nations had signed treaties with the US government guaranteeing the right to live in their ancestral lands and maintain their sovereign systems of tribal government. These nations were unwilling to negotiate new treaties with the federal government that would give away any of their territory.
President Andrew Jackson decided that a new federal policy would be necessary in order to remove the natives from their lands. He supported the Removal Act of 1830. This gave the President the right to make land "exchanges" by forcibly removing the five tribes from their ancestral lands against their will.
The men who created the reservation system believed that if natives could be confined to one particular geographical place reserved for them they could become 'civilized" and assimilated into American life.
They could be encouraged to stop being nomadic and to become settled like white men. The reservations were to make sure the remaining tribes were converted to Christianity, taught English, sewing and small-scale farming. The goal was to make them Americanized in the European American way.
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Amos 5:15
Hate evil and love good.
Establish justice in the gate.
It may be that the LORD, the God of hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph
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An Episcopal missionary by the name of Rev. James Lloyd Breck escorted the ten year old Cornelius and two other boys to Nashotah House to learn English in 1843. The boys were to be educated by Episcopal bishop Jackson Kemper and other missionaries for five years.
Hill became a chief for the Bear clan as a teenager at a council of Oneida from New York, Canada and Wisconsin. He was given the responsibility for distributing the annuity money from previous treaties among his people at age 18.
He was later given responsibility for taking the census of tribal members. The number of members doubled in Wisconsin in the course of his office. Hill went to Albany, New York and Washington, D.C. to advocate for his people several times.
Federal Law
The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1790 had placed nearly all interaction between Indians and non-Indians under federal control. A judge from a state could not arbitrate disputes.
The jurisdiction for the US government included the buying and selling of Indian land. It also established new boundaries for Indian Country, protected Indian lands against non-Indian aggression, subjected trade with Indians to federal regulation, and stipulated that injuries against Indians by non-Indians was a federal crime.
The conduct of Indians among themselves while in their country was left to the tribal leadership. Indian people saw their lands greatly diminished between 1763 and 1889 despite the initial attempt to respect their lands and rights.
Eastern and Plains Indian nations lost the range of their ancestral homeland. Nations on the West Coast also suffered great losses. Oregon tribes lost the majority of their territory beginning in 1841, continuing in 1864 and ending in 1880.
California native tribes suffered a similar fate beginning with the 1848 discovery of gold. The loss of land continued with the 1850’s negotiations of eighteen treaties in northern California that were never ratified by the U.S. government. The rapid loss of land decreased as the 19th century came to a close.
The Dawes Act of 1887 divided tribal allocations into individual properties. It was a way of reducing the land protected by treaties. It was also part of the movement to assimilate native Americans in European American traditions.
The major distinction between the two cultures was that of settled versus nomadic lifestyles. The reservations and the individual land allocations were a way to insist on the right to private property.
European American Culture
Tribal land was broken up and given to individuals. These plots could not be sold for 25 years, but reservation land left over after the distribution of allotments could be sold to outsiders. The US government sold the "excess" land to whites to help expose Indians to the civilizing effects of mainstream American society after the allotment process was completed.
[Citizens or not, the Apostles insisted on abstinence from meat sacrificed to idols. It was a more contentious issue than it may have seemed. The author of the letter to the Romans was moving Christendom away from the apostolic injunction against said sacrifice.]
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Romans 14:17
The kingdom of God is not food and drink. It is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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Cornelius used his knowledge of tribal history from New York and his communication skills to defend native allocations.
Rev. Edward A. Goodnough worked among the Oneidas as a missionary and teacher from 1853 to 1890. Hill had served with him as an organist and interpreter for Episcopal services. He thought ordination would bring additional authority among whites to help him become a bridge between the cultures.
Hill and Goodnough's successor, Rev. Solomon S. Burleson, was also a lawyer and doctor. He had negotiated with the federal government to secure a hospital for the reservation in 1893. The Sisters of the Holy Nativity for nuns were designated to work in the hospital and educate tribal members.
Agriculture
Hill also helped tribal members learn new farming techniques and secure machinery. Women made baskets and beadwork for sale. They learned to make lace to support themselves in the modernized world after 1900.
Tribal members had volunteered at a limestone quarry one day a week since 1870. They laid the cornerstone for a new gothic stone chapel in order to dress stone for a new church building in 1887.
They named the building the Church of the Holy Apostles.
Oneida, Wisconsin
The Church of the Holy Apostles in NY was the oldest Indian mission of the Episcopal Church. The name traces its roots to the earliest Anglican missionaries from the Church of England and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The mission was established in the area that would later become central New York around Oneida Lake.
Bishop John Henry Hobart of New York licensed Mr. Eleazer Williams as Lay Reader, Catechist and Schoolmaster to the Oneida about 1815 at the earnest request of the Oneida chiefs.
Williams would become the first Episcopal missionary in Wisconsin. He played a major role in the removal of the Oneida from New York to Wisconsin.
The Oneida Indians settled and built a log church building in 1825 in the vicinity of Duck Creek after removing from New York in the 1820’s. Duck Creek was about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Green Bay.
Williams also translated parts of the Prayer Book and certain hymns into the Mohawk tongue.
He wrote a letter to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, the missionary arm of the Episcopal Church, on December 2, 1822. He requested the establishment of a mission.
The Rev. Norman Nash was appointed as an official missionary on May 22, 1823 for the area around Green Bay. He did not arrive until 1825. Williams had been ordained Deacon in 1824 and undoubtedly held services at Oneida among the Indians.
A larger wood frame "Gothic" church building was built by the Oneidas after out-growing the log church. The laying of the cornerstone on August 7, 1838 was by Bishop Jackson Kemper, the first Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church. It was his first official act in the territory.
The third and present stone church building was built with the support of the Rev. E. A. Goodnough. The building plan was prepared by the Rev. Charles Babcock, who was also an architect, as a gift to the mission.
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John 10:7
Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.’
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Bishop Charles C. Grafton ordained Hill a deacon on June 27, 1895. Hill was ordained as a priest in 1903. He was the first of his people to serve in the office. He repeated his vows in his native language.
Hill died on January 26, 1907. He was buried on the reservation in the Church of the Holy Apostles graveyard.
Fire from a lightning strike on July 17, 1920 destroyed the gothic stone church. It was rebuilt in a similar design.
The Oneida continued to revere Hill's wisdom and sanctity. They related tales about him to Works Progress Administration historians during the Great Depression.
Cornelius Hill
科尼利厄斯和力
科尼利厄斯和力
科 Ke rules 科 ka course Ko こ- コ- Go 고 the
尼 ni nun 尼 ni nun ne ね ネ nel 넬 Nell
利 li to benefit 利 ri profit ri り リ lyo 료 ryo
厄 e distressed 厄 yaku bad luck a あ ア Hil 힐 hill
斯 si this 斯 shi this su す ス
和 He to blend 和 wa harmony Hi ひ ヒ
力 li power 力 ryoku power ru る ル
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Productive action makes the power to alleviate distress.
The rule for production blends thought into action to eliminate mess.
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wiki Cornelius Hill
wiki Church of the Holy Apostles, Oneida, Wisconsin
Turning Points in Wisconsin History: Settlement
Turning Pts: Indians in the 20th c.
HistoryToday: Native Americans and the Federal Gvt.
http://americanindiantah.com/…/nar_19thcenturyrelations.html
