Jacob White Eagle

Loss of a brother in Christ

The Man of Time

We have lost this mourning a good brother in Christ. Jack Waldon of Rogue River died. [AKA The Man of Time.]

At the age of five, he was turned over by his parents to the Catholic mission boarding school whereas a young Chickasaw he was introduced to the discipline of Catholic nuns. He became rebellious and after that no one could tell him what to do. Even the Apaches he went to high school with found him a fearless opponent.

In the military, while stationed in China during WWII he finally said he was not taking any more orders from anyone who wanted to make him a killer. He stripped off the military uniform and refused to wear it. He was kept naked in the stockade. At one point they put a 45 pistol to his head and ordered him to put on the uniform or become a casualty of war. He refused.

He made his way in the world with failed relations and a devil may care attitude until one day he put a pistol to his own head. Just before he was to pull the trigger he said the first prayer since he was 5 years old and first witnessed the discipline and abuse of his fellow inmates at the boarding school.

He said a great cloud was lifted off of him and his life turned around. He searched for God instead of money and self-satisfying pleasures. For the last decades of his life, he struggled to know and do God's will.

He was a fearless man of action. The Federal and state authorities trying to take out the Savage Rapids Dam stated that he was the reason they could not do it. I have little doubt that the dam would be gone today if it was not for his tireless and fearless efforts.

I first met Jack one day when he appeared out of nowhere on my doorstep ready to help the Embassy of Heaven Church during the efforts of the Federal Government and Marion County officials to destroy it.

He and I bumped about the unhollowed Halls of the Salem and appeared in courts of ungodly Judges throughout the State.

Together we worked for the Kingdom. He was a warrior.

"Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:10

He preferred to be called Jacob White Eagle and returned to his Ancestral identity having no more drivers License. He had spent all his money in the last few years trying to help out people who were seldom grateful and often took terrible advantage of him. The last family he had taken in and never paid any of the rent promised had also failed to change the name of the power bill and did not pay it either. They finally left taking all his bedding, TV and computer. Even his kitchen utensils had been taken and his juicer and blender etc which were important to his diet since his teeth had been knocked out when he ran off the road while on one of his missions of mercy in God's Kingdom.

It did not matter much that these appliances were stolen by the very people he tried to help because the power company soon shut off his electricity. For the last few months, he had no power and refused to let the Church pay the bill. He hauled water and read his Bible by candlelight. His long-distance had been cut off because those he took in to help had run up the bill as they brought in more friends and again never paid a dime. We sent him a phone card so he could call us anytime.

Jack was more concerned about the families two small daughters growing up in the dysfunctional family he tried to help.

"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." Romans 14:17

Jacob White Eagle had agreed just yesterday that if he did not have a better situation by fall that he would move here where we could tend his needs. He spoke on the phone for over an hour yesterday of love and forgiveness. He had learned more about his own stubbornness and impatience and intolerance with the failings and weaknesses of others in these last months and years of his life and had come to peace with these things deep in his heart.

Peace be unto Jacob White Eagle,

A friend of the Church and my friend.

And Peace be on your houses