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CHEROKEE NATION, PROPItIKTOR, EDITED BY ELIJAH HICKS.
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From the Western Luminary. . * .
ETTERS TO A YOUNG <?ON-
. V.ERT* ...
jTTEn ll.-r-^Qn reafhng the Scriptures'
■Iff# De(TV Friend;—f wnsVdivhtpd
win beautiful story I found in a now,
Ik a day or two since. ■ It seelns Jwp
Ing
truth,'thy word is truth!” J»hnl7: If
.The- word of God, the Bible, is to
’assist in.sanotityiifg us., that is, in m<t-
king tin .holy. J)> not forget, this.—
Het-e is its operation;-we do not only
catch the spirit' of it, but’we are to re
member the particular passages to for
tify our hearts against temptation. S
our Saviour did with the Evil Spirit.
“It is written, said.he, it is written,”
quoting the scriptures. And «o David,
“thy word have I hid in my heart, that
I might not sin against thee.” Ps.
119: 11.
6. Try to understand what you read
Get all the helps you csn. I would
particularly mention Nevin’s Jewish
Antiquities/' and Alexander’s Bible
Pictibnary - ;'hotlijsmall Sunday School
works/ AgOod Commentary, such as
'Scbft'V. oK fj£nr.y’*, if in vour power,
nfigiil he r94d 'at least one part of the
"ttlTV Mil
xceliqnt
tvlso.f»
nav 10 anvamop" ■
the Gospel is^'a cheao and . e.<
work: fipd/it-.VcB
answer to every men that asheth” a. burghers and Covenanted grounded
reason of the hope that is in fheifl with their a> ms. and tolled the funeral oftheir
! meekness ind* fear But iftheques- long heated animosities, and over the
Ition be, why. join the Union or A 8 !* 0 * grave reaied the standard of love and
ciate Reformed. churchr?—the ckarita- t union. Then did the watchmen lift up
j hie inquirer will permit an open and the voice, with the voice together did
free answer, though it should be the ! they sing, for they saw eve to
eye,
rout and Damascus, I belief 1 was
compelled to dose my letter jh\t as I
had in my sketch reached Bagdad..—
Mr. Groves of thnt mission hnd\gr>ne
on a visit to India. — Mr. Wolff passed
across by another rout last year, aid is
rfomi.expected back 011 his return; Mr in«r ou»#tr, | / —-e- ., . -. -
and Mrs. Perkins have reached Syria j result of weakness ironi. one who is not. \vhen ■•the l.ord brought again these
on their way to.Constantinople and ul- able after years-of examination, to s,ee , three tribes to unite in sounding the
tiinately to Persia; sothut soon we may ! the propiiety of keeping up unreasona- jubilen trump throughout the home of
hope to hear the Christian sentinel’s cry I hie and unscviptural divisions in the | the oppressed, and in the hallowed work
frotn one watch tawer to another quite Church of God. And erven th se who of causing the wilderness and^ solitary
across from the Mediterranean to the j do not like charity so well as the ternl
China Sea. | orthodoxy, if they he strong faith, are
Col. Taylor, the British Resident at j not (Rom. 14) to despis? him thal is
Bagdad, his lady, and her sister, have *0 weak a£to feel it a duty to 1** God
become hopeful members of the church , and -to his conscience, to testify ip
of Christ Mr. Parnell ha’s beeit mar- met knpss and fear, -against alLqnrea-
riedtothe latter. Mr. Groves, oldest softuWe'and unscriptural divisions •—
son has made a profession-of-religion, j Such in Airy Humble and - perhaps, unim-
andf also a Persian Armenian 'youth. [ port ant opinion is lhe alia
The youngest sour,fMr. Grave- ^ociaTe, Reformed. Perhaps *otl.
5^Sfini4‘"Trc5Zl.obi.:«» Wj.
• • • -mm. * • 1 • I * ! _ motiAiia U,
• II v UIHH1IIVO.J
places to he glad, and the American
hills to echo with the joyful sound, and
the. sweet inspired songs of Judah’s
bard. Whose heart does not gladden,
who would not break forth into trans
ports} of joy to liqve - shared the happi-
ReSs ofthe^e .brethrtya, who like the
patriarch sous- of Jacob, ,tvhq -foigot
their inijirie.s n,;d
of the
ir* muni'- »ww . »’-I - —— —,—V 5.; '
I Eii rope a is. They \vqy«r represeitlp-
las the -most iiigoitibs’^Rn.d Uablkof
ir tribe. -■-Duriijjf ; t'l«ir stay, among
Jpr things, a German clergyman eri-
Jed them to assist him in preparing
[ranslnti - n of the Gospels into the
buage o' their country', and they
lit son e itne every day in his study
I length file task was done, the last
rection was made, the last finish was
Icn, and' the book was closed on the
lie before them.' Still they sat, se
lls and silent. The minister inquir-
|hc cause; and,waft enuallv sumris*
id delightrd to hear them both ff-
tlifitf-elves converts tiJ.Aa-trufytf
|he i 1 ssed , volitme. - .-.“At home,’.’.
.. said, “we studied lhe s'acfed wfi^
II of the Chinese, and the more, we
I the more obscure they seemed,
j the Inngor >vo hnvc read the G°s-
the.moie simple and intelligible it
lo'iues, until at last it-Seems os if
Ts tons talking with vs.”. ’? f .
this is a very pleasing tribute t-o the
rllenc'e;.of the Scriptures, and it is
j such a* might be expected from
(ir natural, unpretending style, It
lie simple, uhvarnislied style of truth,
I therefore it goes straight to the
Irt at once; as the poet has beauti-
ly said,
l“When onco it outers to tho mind,
I Jt spreads such light abroad,.
|The meanest souls instruction find.
And raise their thoughts to God
also nopenmy pious mr. euim.in, me, - < ..
Jewish Missionary who was a while in inatmns who are equally sound in th?
-Palestine/has Iktely joined the mis- faith, that branch in part.cpiar which
siort v-r ' j is foremost in following the things-which'
’ - ltoavmg these;dear brethren, we pass make fen - p^ace and uniou, shmitd have
bv Shush a, Avhefe‘*we find, tiie harp of'lb? preference. * ,sa n 11
ask a fijiRniT If woulff J.e a go ,d plan j Zioi. hung upon the-wirfW KI’l "the" clmr^li "are sTnful,- and
fo remember, the. most important dilh-1 *»» government of R.^ia hating brok- ^ ^ hiin that Cau %cth the ofience,
Milties in ypur roadiag, and when you . en up the German im*sVn theie. I , . u: m t h at without good
liter, your-|iantor m lb. eourae .if M. hwpl.- U slaunn;j ^ J IVrTv. t/ k-ep i.p g °h.
vi-ita, or atrhe Bible Class, or any pi-jwhern til. eatiiblialiirtrJit ,jf .^ e , rn | W .|U of separation. True Chrisliana
his, judicious friend, you could ask j Turkish schools on the aysteinottnu u-j an d it is their duty to come out
liimf.ra solution. This would profit al instnu-ti .u and w.tlrt(i«;cp-oper..t.on v, “ .;£ ome out and
you in many ways. You sh uld try ofthe mmsionanesis thyrtmstyiner-, Beparate ” is the command; and
alsoto remember the expla’iati ms which esting fea ure in thqir < * ork - Uhe sin lies at the d<x>r of schismatical
youdiave in sermons of difficult texts. ! Co nu „g down to Greece we find he ^ when th? caU9e C oas-
iVhen you read, see that v mi get a stations oi Alluns and Syra enjoy
dear idea ofthe passages, its s >irit and , their usual prosperity. Mr. i.eeves
connexion. A little read wd i under- has removed to the latter place from
Corfu, and Mr. Robertson with Ills
press from Athena. The translation
atid printing of the Old Testament in
Modern Gieek is going on well, and
w<f have lately received the Book ot
js^ ana rrogteas, » " . . v . c
I^V’Holjf* living and P.y- Genesis in a separate form.
Smyrna our Turkish labors are
•standing w jll do more good than a great
quantity .Without.
ne(f(T'Jioobs ^of praedieai piety —
Abbott’s' Young Ohristiap, Jjod-
drulge^a llisp/ aftd Pybgtess', Baxter’s
Rest, /jTay I nr V ’Holy* Pi ving
ing', Sjfp'ugaPs 1 ife. of God in the Soul,
Oottoq Mart Iter’s Assays to doG >od,
'Hie Pilgrim’s. Progress, I ives of Rieh-
montT, Pajhaqi." Halyburton, Mrs. Gra-
hamV.Mru. J-udson, 8m;.; besides books
of Missiorfary 'jt'.ravel^ttyid many other
treatises of the aliove 4orfs, which you
can easily preoi^P from the Sabbath
school Library or ■elsewhere. Endeavor
to make all that you read contribute to
throw light on the Scriptures Jlnoid
novels and what is generally called light
reading; even the beet have an unfa
vorable influence on spirituality of
mind.. Miss Edgeworth’s Tales flre
going forward with much interest.—
New schools arc establishing and por
tions of Scripture circulating, among
Mohametans. Yesterday two German
Jews were baptised by the Catholics;
while our Protestant churches nveie
cheered bv the extriordinary socC'tacle
of a Roman Catholic priest, Don - Au
gustine de Costa, renouncing the errors,
of a faith of which for 12 yeurs he had
been a popular preacher.
Tho exercises peculiar to the occa-
| sion were first aseimonin French by
Mr. Lewis at the Put< h Chapel, from
minu.„ miss i',agewimn » jr- j»ir. i-ewis ai inr j;uun » nni»
J...U — C e among the best, and yet tho celebrated 9 tory of Nebuchadnezzar’s golden
might say many things in favor ot |j 0 |j eit Hall confessed tlfat i{ was sev- i i, na g e an d the three youth cast into the
uugiit om; o , ; XvODtJI I na.. -j
Jdving the .Bible, but they are ob-; efa j weekV* before he could get rid of
■ns, and you have often met with . the c |,Hline effect they had on his pie-
|m What l want to do in these Jet-1 * *
to give you- a pipin, simple
is, t* give you , ^
IcticaLdirectious, which you will not
let with in some graver productions,
l which, simple as they are, you may
| have thought of and may be pleas-
|to receive. *
The first thing I could advise you
«», is, To pray for the assistance of
J Holy Spirit to enlighten your mind.
■is is what pious David did, ‘-'Open
In mine eves, thnt I may understand
lndrous things out of thy law!” I his
Irt verse you can easily repeat when
open the sacred pages; “O, Di*
Be Author ofthe Bible, help me to
lderstand what I am about to read' ^
Bead regularly. a portion morning
I evening. Let nothing prevent your
lily devotions. Try and make every
log suit in the arrangement of ybur
he for the opportunity of reading and
Ever. It is ihefoddof your soul
13. Do not prescribe* to yourself amp
fen number of chapters or verses.-—
kere is danger of your looking on it
iher as a task or a merit. Read as
■ch, slowly and carefully, ds tsill pro-
you, and neither more or less.
. Read ih course. Be|iu with the
i Testament one part ol the day, and
New tho other part, and you will
kdually find-one helping on the study
(the other. Some repd only the E-
stles, some the Pianos, others the
Impels You will find it of use to
lad all regularly. The historical hooks
■the Old Testament ure very instruc-
le. On the Sabbath you will have
lire time, and can vary more.
|5. Try to ge as much good as you
from what you read. Bring the
|me and ths doctrine home, make it
ersoual matter, apply to your own
“Sanctify them through thy
8. Commit ■ to' memory a number of
hymns. You will find it a great satis
faction in private and in the company
of Christians. The songs of Zion are
very sweet in times<of sickness or trou
ble. Choose those you like beit, ahd
sortie of those commonly sung without
book by your religious friends. The
sentiment? of scriptures are thus re
duced as it were to a portable shape.
In my next letter I will drop you a
few hints on doing good. Meanwhile
let me again advise you not to let any
slight cause keep you from your bible
for a single day. You would think it
strange of s smith, mason, or carpenter
to sell his tools; now what their saw and
chisel & hammer and axe are to them,
the scriptures are to you, they are in a
certain sense, the instruments of your
salvation. Do not let them go out of
your reach. A gentleman went into
a merchant’s store the other day, and
saw him looking in his money drawer,
but it was not to count his gains; he
had put his bible there, and he had been
reading it without making any parade.
Yours, iu Christian affection,
R. D.
' From the Boston Recorder. ;
FROM 0l R'CORRJESP4>NDENT
Smyuna>-Dec. 23, 1833. _
Mission at Beyrout, at Bagdad, in
Persia, at Constantinople, in Greece,
Smyrna, arrival of Mr. Temple, 6f c.
In my usual missionary survey,
mentioned a few days since, the arrival
of Dr. Whitely and Mrs. Gardiner m
Syria. A fortnight ago, Mr. and Mrs.
Smith were still in Malta, about to set
sail for Beyrout by wav of Alexandria.
After speaking of Jerusalem, Bey-
hurning fiery furnace, rather than bow
down to it, in which application wds
made ofthe subject to the individual
in question. Afterwards at the Eng
lish Chapel, Mr. De Costa publicly
renounced the Roman Catholic faith,
and in the afternoon at the Dutch Chapel
in an Italian sermon stated more fully
the reasons of his dissent.
To dayj Mr. Temple, Mr. Hallock,
Dionysius and their families, have just
arrived in safety, though their children
havp suffered much from measles, &c.
They were anchored in Mitylene dur-
es to exist, to unite id.keeping- up tb«
division, is unchristian. ,\\hen there
is no sacrifice of truth,^ we-are bound
to receive one another afe C hrist alSo
receiveth us, to the glory of God: that
we might with one mind und one mouth
glorify God, even the
this the Saviour prnys, , , .
that all who believe evidently intimatHjg
that fljvisidn gives occasion t-o^he ene-
n|y trr blaspheme, and Tends toriiarden
them hi unbelief. Pride • and envy hre
the fruitful 'sources rtf - ilivisu-As, whieh
Iffcvc existed in the church since.the
blood of^Abel. The doctrines and cmn-
manHnw'i'ts of men; thd preference
given to human compositions over the
Bible; the speculative traditions of hy
pocrites straining at a goat aiid swal
lowing a camel; these have been agit
ators ot controversies in the Christian
world about matters of little moment.
Thus many notions by early education,
in a divided state of the church, are
engrossed upon the mind, and grow
up with years to maintain a strength of
influence nnd importance far beyond
their estimate, in the view of enlighten
ed and cha itable Christians. In every
division, both parties may be wrong,
but it is certain they cannot both be
rio-ht: therefore two or more'denomina-
tions may consistently and. lawfully
drop their peculiarities and foibles, and
unite in the truth, and npthing hut prrde
and malice can prevent their union.
Every scriptural measure to heal di-
visions, is a step ot reformation. .It
was such a measure and design that
formed the Union Church, hence she is
n ’.II #
brace-dnheir forgiving «xiled brother,
the inviting-Joseph, “come near unto
inc, I bm Joseph yourlirother.” H-o.w
liftv thc/aposllbs',after the crucifixion,
they fergvt their separation, and.ieceiv- '
effeach.other' in v medkness arid
iinder the benediction .of peace’' frci»
their risen Lord. But however desire^
able such - an - attainment was and is,
thereHvere and are a few of the anti-
burghers, and a few Covananters, Mho
like the elder brother of the prodigal,
refuse any accommodation of peace.-—
What is the best construction that suc h
condifct will hear? Has it not at least
the appearance of a divisive course?—
But I hail the day as > already daw ned
when the Covenanter will see as in a
sunbeam that his-obstacle wa§ ground
less, they wijTsoon-tyubiiyt m {lie*pow
ers’ that fte,.qnd then*there is nothii g
of real importance h.ich can keep them
mit’offhe union.’ Some, perhaps., will
be tassed e\sewhe/q \flUi a vain show of
consistency; with the”honor of a cV>n-
Fnther. ' For I stant opposition to the utiion; they may
(John 17, 11) pass with eclat to a party of move
wealth apd ftune. . As for the anti-
b.urghers‘it: would seem to he little
eise than the Markings of party, spirit
(tom the beginning of their .objecting
to the' union. It is written to eteVy
one, not to think of^himself more high*
ly than they ought to think, but ta
think soberly ns God hath dealt to eve- „
ry man the measure of faith. Though
cJiflering as the members of organized
matter, yet they must be kindly affec
tionate one to another, with brotherly
love, in honor preferring one another,
They were anchored in lvutvi^ne uui- mnunu
i„g ,h, MM g.l. which we havejust. P'-perly M 'he in
experienced, and in which a Jrench
ship of the line and we fear many other
vessels were lost. The English Cutter
Spitfire, on her way from Constantino
ple to this place, had her captain, mata
and a passenger swept off her deck,
a new argument doing quickly
what we have to do, for the benefit of
tho poor seamen. .
Yours in haste, J. B.
CHRISTUNUNION.e ’
Jlfr. Editor,—Permit me ta 'give a
reason why Secedei s pvd Coytenaifters
should join hand and heart irf doing
the work of Christ. ’ Union.te strength;
the Chrstian here shpuldJteep in vieV
the maxim of his leader aiii cipfain,
V‘a kingdom' divided agsfinst itself must
fall;” united we stand,'divided we fall.
ed The Fathers of the Secession in
Scotland, lived to see a very unhappy
division in the glorious cause, lhe
burgher and anti-burgher, who in what
ever else they harmonized, ngreed in
an unreasonable hatred and bittter strife,
and were joined by Covenanters; these
belligerents, though nearly one in pro
fession, entered the contest in the most
spirited manner, and in less than half a
century magnified their trifling pecu
liarities out of all character. Consider
whht a great matter a little fire kui-
dleth. „ ■ ■ .
But whatever shew of reason there
was to justify that strife, from tr*** 8 ®* -
lantic circumstances, it evidently ceas
ed here; their party animosities, should
be forgotten in America. Here,- the
burgher oath has- hu» an Veal exist
ence, and why’ fight about it,--here,
Christians are bound to iJliitd with truth once, ■»>« ">v . .. ' j,i 00 dv
SO righteousneee whCrc.-e, ,bev ... .her. »JjJ*" I ' 0 “^ n b .' 0 , b ,!°^
found; and it is ynp«ri^us that „ r „«Lb e it as a diabolical institu-
christian denon^oationa unite, -unless
such union involve, the sacrifice of
truth or morality.’ Then, if Seccderj
and Covenanted unite, they may ac
commodate both parties, and take the
united name, Associate Rffinmed^-—
And it devolves upon Yhoso who de-
lino, to “be ready alwa\s to gtyc an
why proscribe it a. a diabolical insti'to
tion? No sooner had they reached the
uesceful shores of Liberty than the
Spirit of brotherhood fired their souls
with friendship. No sooner were our
liberties achieved—our free institutions
established, and the American army
disbanded, than the burghers, the anti-
From the EncyclopM*** Americans
Natural Law,, or, as it is common
ly called, the law of nature, is that sys
tem of principles, which human reason
has discovered to regulate the conduct
of man in all his various relations. Dr.
Paley defines it to he the science, which
teaches men their duty and the reasons
of it. In its largest sense, it compre
hends natural theology, moral philoso
phy, and political philosophy; in other
words, it comprehends man’s duties to^
G<*l,-to himself, to other men, and is a
member of political society. The ob-
ligatory force ofthe law of nature upon
man is derived from its presumed coin
cidence with the will of his Creator.—•
God lias fashioned man according to
his own good pleasure, and has fixed
the laws of his being, and determined
his powers and faculties. He has the
supreme right to prescribe the rules,
‘by which man shall regulate his c J on 1 T
duct, and lhe means, by which he shall
obtain happiness and avoid misery. L. e
has given to man th® p0w - er of Riscerrt*
in«r between good and evil, and a lib
erty of choice in the uSe of those means,
which Tead to happinesg of misery.—
The whole duty of man •Therefore con
sists in two things: first, in makfeg
constant efforts to ascertain what is the.
will of God; and, seeondiy, in obedi
ence to that will when ascertained.—
For tho purposes of the present article,
we shall assume, without'undertaking
to prove, that tHere is * God of infin
ite power, knowledge, -w t isdbm, benev
olence, justice apd*mrfcvj tb»t he has
created man with 1 suitable powers and
faculties to pursue and obtain happi
ness; that man is % moral,-“dependent
and accountable bemfcj that his souLis
immortal; that his ultimate happiness
or miser* - is dependent upop ms oWh
conduct; that there ui a future state of
retribution, in which the inequalities of
the present life will be adjusted accord-
ing to oilprerne wisdom and golWneii;
that, by a .-right application of his pow-