Cherokee Messenger, Volume 12"He is wise; he has something to say. Let us call him 'A tse nu sti, ' the messenger." This is the story of Reverend Samuel Austin Worcester (1798 1859), "messenger" and missionary to the Cherokees from 1825 to 1859 under the auspices of the American Board of Foreign Missions (Congregational). One of Worcester's earliest accomplishments was to set Sequoyah's alphabet in type so that he and Elias Boudinot could print the bilingual Cherokee Phoenix.