The Word

Man must receive an unspeakable gift from his creator. This gift can gloriously be spoken about, but its reality must be touched. "In the beginning was the Word". This Word is God. Through the name of His only begotten son Jesus Christ, in due time, He shall obtain a people that can write in faith. Then creation shall be liberated by their hand. the New Testament was translated from Greek. Our English Word is either Rhema or Logos in Greek. Rhema is spoke Word and Logos must be written. Thus the Bible comes to us over the millenniums as written. And now those of faith can also begin to write the Truth into today's world. Once you see this, it is a wonderful thing to study the history of the Word and His development in man. He comes into the hand of man long before man comes to revelation and adds in faith. "He was in the world, but the world knew Him not."

I write of the Words coming to what he has called Saint Joseph. The tribes that were here, did not have a written language. Then spoke. They mainly had an oral history. They did have sign language, but this is to use their hands much like their tongues. They drew some pictures on walls of rocks, and on teepee's, and on clothing. But they did not write. This one thing placed them behind what was developing in the "old world". In the 1700's the Frenchmen began to come into this tribal area. And in 1804 Lewis and Clark wrote here, where I now write. We know this because we still have that writing! They pioneered deep into the wilds of this land and they wrote. They wrote their way into this Blacksnake landing. Forty years later, Joseph Robidoux went to Saint Louis to obtain the written authority to incorporate a city at this spot. How quickly the writing had developed.

It was around this time, that my great-great-great-grandfather came to this area from Tennessee. Soon Saint Joseph, would become the far western outpost for the launching forth of waves of pioneers to the west. In 1843 Saint Joseph came into being when Joseph used the Word to sell portions of the land. Such a thing was unthinkable to the tribes before the Frenchman Joseph came. But the fact is, the Word was going to subdue this ground into the name of Saint Joseph and nothing to stop that.

The State of Missouri was admitted to the Union in 1821. It was the 24 Th state.
But this area was assigned to the tribes. In 1836 that would change and set the way for saint Joseph. The United states desired to buy the land from the tribes. At that time Chief White Cloud went up onto what is now called King Hill, to pray. While there he saw that the white man would take over and in tears he led the people to surrender the land. White Clouds experience on King Hill preserved a remnant of the tribes in this area, for surely if he did not sign to sell, the price of blood would have followed. Now the USA flag flies triumphantly upon that will, overlooking the south side of Saint Joseph.