Teaching Cree.Rev. James Settee, who at 85 became the oldest man ever to be ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. priest, and who is best known for having written the Cree version of John Newton's Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" is a well-known Christian hymn. The words were written late in 1772 by Englishman John Newton. They first appeared in print in Newton's Olney Hymns, 1779 that he worked on with William Cowper. , has embarked on another mission: teaching Cree to teenagers of his parish at Little Red Reserve, north of Prince Albert Prince Albert, city (1991 pop. 34,181), central Sask., Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River. Prince Albert is a commercial and distribution center for a lumbering, gold- and uranium-mining, and mixed-farming area. There are wood-products and meatpacking industries. , Sask. "It will be good for the young people to read Cree," the diocese of Saskatchewan Web site quoted him. "And of course we shall use as our textbook the Cree Bible and the Cree Book of Common Prayer." He added: "If the old people want to come and learn too, that will be okay." Mr. Settee, who revived his parish and helped build a new church, is the great-great grandson of the missionary James Settee, who was one of three missionaries who brought the gospel to Saskatchewan in the 1850s. "James is the diocese's living memory bank," said diocesan bishop A bishop in charge of a diocese. These are to be distinguished from suffragan bishops, assistant bishops, coadjutor bishops, Auxiliary Bishops, or metropolitans or primates. Anthony Burton. "He attended his first diocesan synod as a child in 1912. He remembers his father's stories of having visited in Prince Albert the camp of Sitting Bull following Custer's Last Stand Custer’s Last Stand U.S. troops led by Col. Custer are massacred by the Indians at Little Big Horn, Montana (1877). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 701] See : Wild West ." |
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