Selections from the Scriptures translated into the Nez Percé language /by Henry Harmon Spalding, 1839-1846.

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Selections from the Scriptures translated into the Nez Percé language /by Henry Harmon Spalding, 1839-1846.

The first volume contains chapters 1-11:3 of Acts of the Apostles and selections from the Books of Moses. The second volume contains extracts from Acts, 16:28-31, Matthew 10:1-7 and 1:1-3, and selections from the Books of Moses. The work was commissioned in 1839 at the annual meeting of the Oregon Mission and carried out by Spalding and others.

2 v. (180 p. in a case) ; 17 cm.

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Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874

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Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding, pioneer Presbyterian missionary in the Oregon Territory, was born on November 26, 1803 in New York. In 1836, after successfully applying for an appointment under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Spalding traveled overland to Oregon with his first wife, Eliza Hart Spalding, and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Later that year he founded the Nez Percé Indian mission at Lapwai, where he remained until the Whitman Massacre in 1847...