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.

The Presbyterians, in 1835, sent Whitman and Parker into Oregon. And what man with one spark of patriot blood, does not know Marcus Whitman? Whitman and his bride made their wedding journey through the valley of the "Flat Water." and perished as martyrs at the hands of the people they went to save.

In 1840, Father Peter De Smet, went out for the Catholics into the great inter-mountain region. Some two hundred miles to the northwest of Scottsbluff is an extinct crater of a volcano, and the basin has filled with the clear sweet water of the Big Horn mountains. The lake, fed by everlasting springs, is named Lake De Smet. ~

There were many other heroic bearers of the Cross in the wilderness, but forever will the names of Jason and Daniel Lee. Marcus Whitman, Samuel Parker and Peter De Smet be heard, for the dangers which they braved and the foundations they laid for Christian religion in the mighty wilderness of the west.