[Oe List ...] More on Brother Van

Tue Jul 20 09:08:41 CDT 2010

See

http://www.metnet.mt.gov/Special/Quarries%20From%20The%20Gulch/HTM/Brother%2
0Van%20Part%201.pdf

See also

The area we know today as Yellowstone National Park was made a National Park
by an act of Congress on March 1, l872. From the inception of Yellowstone as
a National Park, it was administered by the U.S. Army until 1916 when the
National Park Service was founded.

In late June of l873 a young Methodist minister William Wesley Van Orsdel
came into the park with a clerical friend. There were a number of people
camped near the lower Geyser Basin and Rev. Orsdel held a Methodist service
for them on Sunday, July 4, 1873. This was the first religious service held
in Yellowstone National Park.

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=86080641494
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Tim Powers <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=520907545>  Originally
from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Van Orsdel came to Fort Benton, Montana in
1872. Arriving on June 30, he preached that afternoon in a local saloon
where he received the nickname "Brother Van" which stayed with him the rest
of his life.

For forty-seven years, Brother Van set the tone for Methodism in Montana. He
held a service almost every day and traveled some 15,000 miles a year. One
historian has observed, "For the small Methodist constituency in Montana to
maintain a college, a hospital, and a children's home and school during the
frontier days was all but impossible, and yet Brother Van through faith,
prayer, persistence and sacrifice somehow managed to convince the people
that it could be done."

He was loved by the Indians of Montana who gave him the name Great Heart. In
1873, they took him on his first buffalo hunt, an event reproduced in a
painting by the cowboy artist Charles M. Russell. Russell, affectionately
recalling in a letter the first time he met Brother Van, wrote in his rough
prose, "I have met you many times sinc that, Brother Van, sometimes in
lonely places, but you never were lonsun or alone, for a man with seared
hands and feet stood beside you and near him there is no hate, so all you
met loved you."

As a presiding elder, Brother Van always credited the growth in his district
to the pastors and people. He reported to the annual conference, "You,
brethren of the ministry and laity, with your wives, are the victors. You
have been instruments, under God, to bring about the results." As a boy,
Brother Van heard President Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address and he
frequently repeated Lincoln's phrase, "under God." His colleagues in the
annual conference showed their respect for him by electing him a delegate to
General Conference six times.

Brother Van was particularly fond of a song by W.A. Spencer called "Harvest
Time" which became a favorite of Montana Methodists.

The seed I have scattered in springtime with weeping
And watered with tears and with joy from on high,
Another may shout when the harvesters' reaping
Shall gather my grain in the sweet by and by.
Over and over, yea, deeper and deeper,
My heart is pierced through with life's sorrowing cry,
But the tears of the sower and the songs of the reaper
Shall mingle together in joy by and by.
--B.W. Coe

This says the hymn was by Spencer.

Also 

http://www.intermountain.org/cen/index.php?page=montana_women 

His last name apparently is "Orsdel"

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of nancy
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:46 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Songs of the Reaper

Dear Marilyn and others,

    According to the earliest song book I have, Songs of the New Earth, the
coda is:

        "Then palms of victory, crowns of glory,  palms of victory I shall
wear!"

Sorry, no plurals in the early versions!  Just palms of victory that always
have the painful crowns of glory!

            G&P,

                Nan Grow

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From: marilyncrocker at juno.com 

To: oe at wedgeblade.net 

Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:38 PM

Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Songs of the Reaper

Hi Jann,

Yes -- that makes more sense:  Palms of victory, (Palm Sunday) "  then was
it also Palms of glory, and then the finale,  Crowns (or palms?) of victory
(possibly recalling the thorns)  we shall wear? 

 I could make a theological case for that, but I'm remembering it was Palms,
Palms and Palms.  Who has other recollections?

Marilyn

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:22:31 EDT LAURELCG at aol.com writes:

I thought it was "Palms of victory."

Jann

Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
Crocker & Associates, Inc.
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West Newfield, ME 04095
(207) 793-3711

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