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Letter from Daniel H. Muir to John Muir, ca. 1861
No full textDear Brother John I wrote a letter to you 2 or 3 weeks ago and when I got a chance to post it I forgot time after time but now I will make the best of it by telling you what has happened since. Since that we have moved into Portage John Reid has moved on to the farm & Mary and Anna and I have been at the High School one week end Joanna is at an intermediate but none of us have been [illegible] yet as Mr Muir the superintendant has been in Milwaukee ever since we have been here but Judge Dotty have us permission to go to such schools as we would be likely to get into till Mr Muir returns but now there will be two weeks vacation and the superintendent will be back before they are ended the teacher in the under flat is Mr [Megoffin?] the teacher in the intermediate School is Miss Boothe. [Staber\u27s two children are at th?] high School [You?] little boy about two feet long is a better [illegible] than either you or I. I guess and he [studies Arithmetic Algbra natural?]https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43161/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Daniel Muir to [Daniel H. Muir], [ca. 1874].
No full textAnd as I do not believe it right to be of any particular sect or party but a member of Jesus Christs Believing body. I claim a right to converse or have fellowship with any of them few or many feeding Christs Sheep & Lambs & inviting all that comes in my way to come to Jesus Christ & be Saved with out money & without price and I having full faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and as a witness of that . My God hath filled my heart full of his Holy Spirit So that I can [ Speak?] from a heart filled with true love to god & man The Holy Spirit is with me all the time and puts words in my mouth just the kind I need & as I need them. I have great happiness & pleasure in the Lords work. Taking Our great Market three times in the week where thousa- nds of people meet. & preaching from House [deleted: to house] to house & have Thousands of times more work more than I can do. O that the Lord would send more labourers into his harvest field. [3] [2]Dear Daniel I do love you as I do all my children & your Dear mother as I love my own Soul and I love all their ofspring and loveth indeed all that my Heavenly Father for like Paul I am indeted to all men the debt of love. how can a true Believer do anything else for we will all soon be with each other in glory and the Sooner the better when it is the Lords time. for this world is a battlefield all the time the Saints against the world. but greater is he that is with us then all he that is with the world against us. our Jesus has already defeated the devil the world. & the flesh. they may threaten us but our God hath all controll over our enemies & he will keep us as the apple of his eye . none can pluck us out of either his Fathers hand or his. But we must not trust to anything but only on himself for everlasting life and all the grace we need here [2]https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/37235/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Daniel Muir to John Muir, 1866 Feb 24
No full text[4] fallLuke 14:21-23.24 Acts 4:34, Luke 9:23.24.25. You ought to be thank to god for the gospel that it has reached you Matt 24:14; & 28:19; Rom 10:18. Also for a knoledge of the rightiouness which is of faith Rom 10:4.17. The that seeketh the Lord with all his heart shall find him yea he is to be sought as for hid treasure. he says look unto me all ye ends of the earth and be saved for I am god & there is none else Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden with sin & I will give you rest never rest until you can with certinty say that the Lord is yours by faith, and all with him for short of that there is no peace nor joy. write soon & let me know how you prosper in this way, Your folks hereabouts are all well for ought I know I remain your ever affectionat Father Daniel Muir00366https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/42804/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Daniel Muir Sr. to Daniel H. Muir, 1865 ? 18
No full text[2]We are much revived in our little church and we are all praying for each other digly read the Isa 55. prayerfully read the Bible much we cannot be benefited by it if we do not know it. And having food & raiment let us their with be content, mind not high things but condisend to man of low estates do not seek the honour that comes of man but that which comes of god. Their is nothing in the world but vanity and vexation of Spirit and the love of money is root of all evil which some have coveted & have thereby [illegible]ced themselves through with many sorrows, Try to mix with good company as much as possible & keep out of bad thing. Keep Faith & a good conscience for Christ hath died for us leaving us a good example that we should follow his steps. Keep all his commandments give up all rash gudging evil speaking, back biting whispering and do to others as you would like them to do unto you, Trust not to anything you can do or have done for Salvation but only to what Christ hath done & to what he has promised to do in you by his Sirit in Subdincing an your corruptions keep always humbling views of yourself & seek all your goodness in Christ black with sin in yourself but white by Christ impated righteousness in him, let him work all your works in you by his Spirits power and then your works will be well for there is imperfection in our own wisdom. righteous sanctification etc but all perfection in Christs I think if you had Christ and a good farm to make your bread upon you would be supplied the best I will either have to sell my farm or let it, there is nothing doing on it now receive all our loves & write soon (all well) love to [illegible]) Daniel Muir.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43225/thumbnail.jp
Daniel Muir-An Obituary
No full textDaniel Muir died Oct. 6th, 1885, in Kansas City, Mo., at the residence of his daughter, Joann, in the 82d year of his age. Daniel Muir was always a man of marked character and will be remembered by many of his old neighbors and friends in Portage and in the town of Buffalo, where he was well-known as a pioneer, having come direct from Scotland with his family and settled there in the year 1849. Few lives were more restless and eventful than his, few more steadily toilsome and full of enthusiastic endeavor, ever fighting his way onward unwearied toward light and truth and eternal love. But his last years as he lay broken in body waiting for rest were full of calm divine light. Faith in God and charity to all became the end of all his teachings, and he often times spoke of the mistakes he had made in his relation toward his family and neighbors, urging those about him to be on their guard and see to it that love alone was made the guide and rule of every action. His mother was English, his father Scotch and he was born in Manchester, England in the year 1804. When he was only six months old his mother died and he lost his father also a few months later when an elder sister became a mother to him and brought him up on a farm that belonged to a relative in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Here he lived the life of a farm servant, growing up a remarkably bright, handsome boy, delighting in athletic games and eager to excel in everything. He was notably fond of music, had a fine voice and usually took a leading part in the merry song-singing gatherings of the neighborhood. Having no money to buy a violin when he was anxious to learn to play that instrument he made one with his own hands, and ran ten miles to a neighboring village through mud and rain after dark to get strings for it. While yet more boy than man he suddenly left home to seek his fortune with only a few shillings in his pocket, but with his head full of romantic schemes for the benefit of his sister and all the world besides. Going to Glasgow and drifting about the great city, friendless and unknown, he was induced to enter the British Army, but remained in it only a few years, when he purchased his discharge before he had been engaged in any active service. On leaving the Army he married and began business as a merchant in Dunbar, Scotland. Here he remained and prospered for twenty years; establishing an excellent reputation for fair dealing and enterprise. Here too his eight children were born excepting the youngest who was born in Wisconsin. Closing out his business and selling his house and fine garden, in the planting and management of which he had always taken great pleasure, he emigrated to the wilds of America, being then 45 years of age. He first settled on a half section of land near the Fox river about 12 miles north of Portage and remained there eight years or until it was brought under thorough cultivation. Then feeling the need of more work he purchased half a section of wild land about four miles to the eastward of the farm, to which he removed his family and began building, breaking, fencing and planting anew. At length this second farm being thoroughly subdued and cultured, and his three sons gone to seek their fortunes elsewhere, he sold it and devoted himself solely to religious-work. As an evangelist he went from place to place in Wisconsin, Canada, and Arkansas, distributing books and tracts at his own cost, and preaching the gospel in season and out of season with a firm sustained zeal. Not was this period of religious activity restricted to these later years, for throughout almost his whole life as soldier, merchant and farmer, as well as evangelist he was an enthusiastic believer and upholder of the gospel and it is this vivid burning belief that forms the groundwork of his character and explains its apparent contradictions. He belonged to almost every protestant denomination in turn, going from one to another, not in search of a better creed, but ever in search of a warmer and more active zeal among its members with whom he could contribute his time and money to the spread of the gospel. Though suffering always under the disadvantage of an imperfect education, he never failed in any important undertaking and never seemed to feel himself over tasked, but by sheer force of will and continuous effort overcame all difficulties that stood in his way. He was successful in business and bestowing much of his earning on churches and charities. His life was singularly clean and pure. He never had a single vice excepting perhaps the vices of over-industry and over-giving. Good scripture measure “heaped up shaken together and running over” he meted out to all. He loved little children and beneath a stern face, rigid with principles he carried a warm and tender heart. He seemed to care not at all what people would think of him. That never was taken into consideration when work was being planned. The Bible was his guide and companion and almost the only book he ever cared to read. About eight years ago he fell and broke a leg, and from the effects of this accident he never recovered. Unable to take his accustomed exercise he gradually failed in strength, the weight of years not previously felt began to press heavily and he was at length confined to bed. While these last weary years wore slowly away he never uttered an impatient word, and his youthful enthusiasm burned on to the end, his mind glowing like a fire beneath all its burden of age and pain, until at length he passed on into the land of light, dying like a summer day in deep peace, surrounded by his children. J.M.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/1169/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Daniel Muir to John Muir and David Muir, 1861 Sep 7
No full textTown of Buffalo 7th Sep 1861 Dear Children I have Sent you inclosed ten Dollars as it all I can Spare just now let me know when you are in great need & I shall again try 7 give you more I have Seen Some mistakes Since you went away 7 have put them right I have [put 5 1/2 days more of grubbing of 6 farms acct?] which amounts to 412 1/2 cents and the Same to Davids with 484 Cents besids which his grand father gave him when he left Dunbar, if I have before [illegible]ted it in to his other monies let him Say So when he writes, we are all well & busy giting in thewheat Seed I have gathing mine to write I hope you will get the money Safe. let me know about it as Soon as you git it your Mother hopes you got Safe to Madison with all your things, besure & please your Heavenly Master by believing his every word & keep his commandments. I am [yours?] affectionally Daniel MuirP S [David?] I had carried your account to a new place in my Book where the price of your Sear //8.00 was marked along with the other So that is Something more Still. D. M.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43063/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Daniel Muir [Sr.] to Daniel [H. Muir], 1872 Jan 7.
No full textCirculated along with Tracts from both places [amo?] ngst] the churches in portage, & friends & churches in the country, also. They are read with very great intrest, they have done us a deal of good, Your Mother, Anne Joanna & myself are all entred upon a life of trust. Trusting Jesus Christ as given of God & made of God unto us Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, & redemption. We have cast the care of our Souls & our bodies upon Jesus. Who has promised to save us to the uttermost even all that call upon his name. We have taken Him as our ever- lasting place of rest, & none else & he is enough. He is the rock of ages, & our rock, we can trust him without fear of disappoint- ment for ever. For all we need for time & eternity. Christ is a fullness we cannot exhaust, & He links us to Himself & that fullness by the link of faith which He gifts to us. That on inheritance that is, and we enter upon it the moment we believe. My Dear child you may have trusted Jesus Christ to Save you from hell, but have you trusted Him with your Salvation from reigning Sin within, do you [illegible] like Paul feel your inability to conquer that sin & cry out with him, who shall deliver me from this body of death, He even Jesus can deliver us none else, O then trust Him to deliver you, callupon him then to fulfill His promise to you. For he says who so ever shall call upon the Lord Shall be Saved [illegible] this day is the day of Salvation, not [illegible] this moment not the next, We cannot abide in Jesus Christ without condemnation & follow his Spirit only until we come to Jesus, & receive of Him by our faith that power, even Himself as our deliverer. But as soon as he conquers our enemies, as our Substitute then we can abide in him at peace, & safe, without condemnation and like a grafted branch draw nourishment out of Christ Jesus always, every moment, even to great fruitfulness. Except the branch abide in the vine it cannot bring forth fruit, no more can ye except ye abide in me, for without me ye can do nothing. Your Mother & Anna joins me in kind live to you, we are glad to hear you are well, hoping you will write soon I remain yours affectionately Daniel Muirhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/37034/thumbnail.jp
Daniel Henry - Across the Shaman\u27s River
No full textDaniel Henry, author and teacher will speak about his book, Across the Shaman\u27s River: John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North, which is about Muir’s relation with the native peoples of Alaska.
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Letter from John Muir to Daniel H. Muir, 1867 Aug 9
No full text[2]together with all your [illegible] [illegible[ [illegible] & [illegible] I am in haste - Yours very cordially John Muir[3] Port Hope, August 9th 1867 Dear Uncle Daniel Mother has received the letter that you wrote last she thought it was as funny that she let Uncle John and Pa read it. she did not knew any thing about the people that you spoke about. so that she had to ask Uncle John if he knew any thing about them. Pas is cutting wheat today it is the first of his own this year he has harvest. [illegible] [illegible] to help him. Uncle [John?] and Merrill is going away to night. there was not any school to day because the teacher was sick. Uncle John and Merrill was over [at?] the Observatory [illebgible] [illegible] the [illegible] time they were over they went over to wolf hill and got some birch bark, and I think it is very strange I will send you a piece of it so that you can see it Merrill wrote a letter to one of his friends in Indianapolis on ithttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43080/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Daniel Muir [Father] to John Muir, 1874 Mar 19.
No full text00681will do [underlined: no] more [underlined: harm] either to you or others. and then like Paul look to the Cross of Christ & glory in it. and as in the Sight of God & in Christ Jesus my only Lord & master I hereby say Amen to it. I expect my God willing to leave Portage City for Hamilton Toronto, on the last day of this month I bought a house last October there & without my family at present I mean to go in the way of gods providence to Spend All my time in His Service & wholly by His grace to glorify Him I shall be glad to hear. from you there any time I will get your letters at the post office there. We are all well your Dear Mother Sends her love to you. Your Affectionate Father in Christ Daniel MuirFor you I ever pray Portage City March 19th 1874.My very Dear John Were you as realy [underlined: happy] as my [underlined: wish] would make you you would be permanently [underlined: So]. in the [underlined: best] Sense of the word. I received yours of the 3 inst with your Slip of paper but I had read the Same thing in [deleted: a] the Wisconsin. Some days befor I got yours. & then I [underlined: wished] I had [underlined: not Seen it]. because it harried up my feelings So with another of your hair breadth escaps. had I Seen it to be [underlined: gods work] you was doing I would have felt the other way but I knew it was not God’s work. Although you Seem to think you are doing Gods Service. if it had not been Gods boundless mercy youhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/35657/thumbnail.jp
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