We leave them asleep by your great waters and

wigwams. They were tired in many moons and the moccasins wore out. My people sent me to get the white man's Book of Heaven. You took me where they worship the Great Spirit with candles, and the Book was not there. You showed me images of the good spirits, and the picture of the good land beyond, but the Book was not among them to tell us the way.

"I am going back the long and sad trail to my people in the dark land. You make my feet heavy with gifts, and my moccasins will grow old carrying them, yet the Book is not among them. When I tell my poor blind people, after one more snow, in the big council, that I did not bring the Book, no word will be spoken by our old men or our young braves. One by one they will rise up in silence and go out. My people will die in darkness, and they will go the long way to other hunting grounds. No white man will go with them, and no white man's Book will be there to make the way plain. I have no more words."

This Macedonian cry, "come over and help us," given by this brave upon his departure on the long journey home, was published in the Christian Advocate, in March, 1833, and made a profound sensation. It started missionaries all over the west.

The two Lees, Jason and Daniel, were the first to respond, and they went for the Methodist church, in 1834. While their trip through this country was without any startling incident, they became powers in the great northwest, and founded the Methodist faith upon a most enduring basis in the Puget Sound country, and on the Williamette river.