WORCESTER, Samuel Austin

[s. 812] : Born at WorcesJanuary 19, 1798; graduated Uni ver Vermont, 1819; And over Theological Seminary, 1823; ordained August 25, 1825; left as a mi ionary of the ABCFM, August 31, for the Cherokees, reaching Brainerd, Ga., October Through his labors and those of other 21, 1825. ter, Ma ., sity of mi ionaries, the Indians made great progre in Christian knowledge and the arts of civilized life. They had become largely a nation of farmers and artisans, had organized, with the advice of the United States Government, a regular and creditable government, were to a considerable extent supplied with schools and religious institutions, and many were members of Christian churches. In 1831 the mi ionaries became involved in a controversy with the State of Georgia in consequence of the pa age of a law restricting their privileges, and which they deemed unconstitu- 794 and that each man’s habits of life should be an example safe and beneficent for every other man. “We therefore formulate, and for ourselves adopt, the following pledge, asking our brothers of a common danger and a common hope to make common cause with us, in working its reasonable and helpful precept into the practise of every-day life:”I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all Alcoholic Liquors as beverages, whether distilled, fermented, or malted; from opium in all its forms, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same.” In pursuance of this pledge, the plan includes education of the young, the development of public sentiment, the reform of drunkards, and the general work for the establishment of the Kingdom of Christ. The conduct of the Union is in the hands of an executive committee, consisting of the officers. Presidents of National Societies, Superintendents of World’s Departments, and others who may be selected. There are two secretaries, one in England and one in the U. S. A., and the headquarters of the U. S. Union are practically those of the World’s Union. According to the report (1903) there are auxiliaries in 60 countries (including 6 in Australia), scattered all over the world: 11 in Asia, 15 in Europe, 7 in Africa, etc. There are 37 departments, including a Young Woman’s Branch, Scientific Education, Systematic Giving, Gambling; Penal, Char Anti-Narcotics, Opium — and Reform work; Purity, Franchise, Peace and International Arbitration, etc. Statistics of such a work are scarcely po ible. An idea of its extent is given by the fact that itable tional.^ Mr. Worcester and his two companions were arrested. After sixteen and a half months’ imprisonment they were released, January 14, 1833, returned to their stations, and resumed Mr. Worcester removed their mi ionary work. in April, 1835, with the mi ion pre to Dwight, and spent the summer among the Cherokees of Arkansas, mostly in making arrangements for printing. He afterward was stationed at Park Hill, in the Indian Territory, to which the official papers are published in the U. S. A., England, Canada, Australia, New South Wales, South Australia, Transvaal, Japan, Tasmania, India, Burma, Cape Colony, and New Zealand. An extensive work is carried on also among Here he died group of the Ural-Altaic family of languages, spoken west of the Ural Mountains and in the provinces of Viatka and Orenburg, in Eastern Ru ia. It is written with the Ru ian alphabet. The name is also pronounced Votyak. Cherokees had been removed. April 20, 1859. 812