Joseph Samuel Murrow

Joseph Samuel Morrow (1835-1939) was a missionary in Indian territory, and was also known as the Grand Old Man of Masonry. This volume includes 2 stories about J. S. Murrow, "Seventy Years with the Indians for Christ" and a short biographical iece from the Federal Writer's Project. "Seventy Years with the Indians for Christ" begins with "Down in Atoka, "The Place of Much Water" lives a patriarch of Oklahoma. After seeing ninety years of the struggles and trials of life, he is not fearful for the destiny of modern life, swayed by evolution, jazz and flapperism. For seventy years his life has been too busy, sheltering, feeding, educating and converting a people waging a losing fight against civilization, to worry."