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Confident, their chief Multnomah becomes a fierce and ruthless leader, reigning over a network of Pacific Coast tribes from Mount Shasta to today's British Columbia. But when an old Indian prophet warns of a different future and Grey fatefully encounters Wallulah, Multnomah's gentle daughter, tragedy follows.
Set in 1690s prehistoric Oregon, this regional classic was the first work of fiction by a Northwest writer to feature Native Americans as main characters. The Bridge of the Gods also evokes an extraordinary sense of place, introducing readers to the Pacific Northwest's primal forests, untamed rivers, and volcanic peaks. A new introduction by Stephen L. Harris offers interpretive content and a biography of the author.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781634240215 |
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| Publisher: | Trine Day |
| Publication date: | 03/01/2016 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d) |
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CHAPTER IV. THE COUNCIL OF ORDINATION. Friends were assembled together; the Elder and Magistrate also Graced the scene with their presence, and stood like the Law and the Gospel .... After the Puritan way and the laudable custom of Holland. The Courtship of Miles Slandish. A FEW days after the funeral, letters missive from the little society went out to all the neighboring churches, calling a council to ordain the Reverend Cecil Grey a missionary to the Indians. It was a novel thing, in spite of the noble example that Roger Williams had set not many years before; and the summons met with a general response. All the churches, far and near, sent delegates. If one could only have taken a peep, the day before the council, into the households of that part of New England, what a glimpse he would have gotten of Puritan domestic life ! What a brushing up there was of black coats, what a careful starching and ironing of bands; and above all, in Cecil's own neighborhood, what a mighty cookery for the ordination dinner the next day! For verily the capacity of the clerical stomach is marvellous, and is in fact the one thing in theology that does not change. New departures alter doctrines, creeds are modified, but the appetite of the clergy is not subject to such mutations. The morrow came, and with it the expected guests. The meeting-house was crowded. There were many ministers and lay delegates in the council. In the chair sat a venerable preacher, not unknown in the records of those days, a portly man, with a shrewd and kindly face. Sterner faces were there also. The council wore a grave aspect, more like a court of judges before whom a criminal is cited to appear than an assembly ofclergymen about to ordain a missionary. After some preliminaries, Cecil was ca...
Table of Contents
CONTENTSBook I.
THE APOSTLE TO THE INDIANS.
I. THE NEW ENGLAND MEETING
II. THE MINISTER'S HOME
III. A DARKENED FIRESIDE
IV. THE COUNCIL OF ORDINATION
V. INTO TRACKLESS WILDS
Book II.
THE OPENING OF THE DRAMA
I. SHALL THE GREAT COUNCIL BE HELD?
II. THE WAR-CHIEF AND THE SEER
III. WALLULAH
IV. SENDING OUT THE RUNNERS
Book III.
THE GATHERING OF THE TRIBES
I. THE BROKEN PEACE-PIPE
II. ON THE WAY TO THE COUNCIL
III. THE GREAT CAMP ON THE ISLAND
IV. AN INDIAN TRIAL
V. SENTENCED TO THE WOLF-DEATH
Book IV. THE LOVE TALE
I. THE INDIAN TOWN
II. THE WHITE WOMAN IN THE WOOD
III. CECIL AND THE WAR-CHIEF
IV. ARCHERY AND GAMBLING
V. A DEAD QUEEN'S JEWELS
VI. THE TWILIGHT TALE
VII. ORATOR AGAINST ORATOR
VIII. IN THE DARK
IX. QUESTIONING THE DEAD
Book V
THE SHADOW OF THE END
I. THE HAND OF THE GREAT SPIRIT
II. THE MARRIAGE AND THE BREAKING UP
III. AT THE CASCADES
IV. MULTNOMAH'S DEATH-CANOE
V. As WAS WRIT IN THE BOOK OF FATE