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river to take the people West. One can fancy the scene.

After the Cherokee had moved west of the Mississippi and were trying to start afresh, the western line of Arkansas fell across the tract occupied by them, and again they were forced to move further west. It took six treaties, covering a period of 19 years, before the Cherokee lands were finally in the possession of the white people, and two more treaties, before their western boundaries were fixed.

During all this trying period the Missionaries remained faithful to their charge. Some went west with the emigrants, others remained with those who lingered in the East, and helped in the struggle in behalf of the rights of the people to their homes, and more than one of these Ministers of Christ were thrown into prison, during that time of disaster. The sufferings of the men and women who had consecrated their lives to the christianization of the Cherokees, form a chapter in the heroic work of Christian Missions.

To-day the Methodist Episcopal Church South