Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . rChrysostom says that this goodpriest could tell three stories at onetime, one main story, and two oth-ers explanatory of the main one,and it was his custom to excite theinterest of his dusky children by in-terspersing edifying anecdotes withhis religious instructions. Recent-ly, I asked a good Chippewa womanhow she best re-membered FatherJohn. By hisstories, was herreply. His perfectmastery of theChippewa lan-guage also en-deared him tothese simple peo-ple. They de-clared, and truth-fully, that hespoke their lan-guage better thanany member ofthe Chippewa na-t
Franciscan herald (1913 - 1940) . rChrysostom says that this goodpriest could tell three stories at onetime, one main story, and two oth-ers explanatory of the main one,and it was his custom to excite theinterest of his dusky children by in-terspersing edifying anecdotes withhis religious instructions. Recent-ly, I asked a good Chippewa womanhow she best re-membered FatherJohn. By hisstories, was herreply. His perfectmastery of theChippewa lan-guage also en-deared him tothese simple peo-ple. They de-clared, and truth-fully, that hespoke their lan-guage better thanany member ofthe Chippewa na-tion. Some ideaof the effort heVerwyst, o. F. M. expended in thisstudy may be gained by an exami-nation of the Ojibway term forLeech Lake, which in the Ojib-way, or Chippewa, tongue almostrends an ordinary jaw in an effortto pronounce it. The writer nevermade the attempt. Will the readertry? Here is the spelling: GA-SA-GAS-KWAD-JI-ME-KAG, whileone almost gags in attempting: E-PITCH-KIT- CHIT-WA- WEN-DA-CO-SI-GO-BA-NEN, meaning, As. 200 FRANCISCAN HERALD it was honored in the the other hand, many of thesewords are very expressive, one ofthem frequently containing a wholephrase in the English tongue, asdoes the word just quoted. Anoth-er good example is Father JohnsChippewa title: Anamiegabaw,that is, Bowed in Praying. This title, a testimonial of his sin-cere piety, reminds us of the fol-lowing incident. After the Commu-nion of his Mass, he was wont tospend in communing with his Lordmore time than the tepid membersof a congregation might desire. Onone occasion, however, he had tobreak his pious custom. He hadcome, it would seem, unexpectedlyto the wigwam of a Catholic Indianto offer up Holy Mass. The onlyplace he could stand upright was inthe center of the wigwam, the fire-place. The hot coals were quicklyraked away, some spruce boughsplaced over the fire-place, and aboard over the the branches for theFather to stand on. Mass began,but soon the heat of the fire-place
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