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CHEROKEE PIUEXIX
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CHEROKEE NATION, PROPRIETOR. EDITED BY ELIJAH HICKS.
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"religious.
welfare of the church of God May J
the blessed cause of missions under the
direction of the church be sustained by
all her friends; and may the dear broth- !
ren and sisters who have gone forth as .
active Laborers into the foreign field \
be supported in all their afflictions, and
made abundantly successful in planting [
the good seed which, under the benign i
influences of the Spirit, shall produce .
an abundant harvest. !
“Wishing you much success in your
infant Society, I remain your affection- i
ate friend and brother in Christ.”
If, besides the importance of the
cause itself, there are minor induce
ments, which may properly stimulate,
especially the l'resbyteriati church in
this country, to growing effort, they
are to - be found in the attitude which
American Christian are supposed to
ie higher and better educated classes,
ml it. is not unlikely that it will soon
iread from them to the other orders
society. But while infidelity is un-
n mining the Hindoo system, it is of j
<r!i importance that it should not shed
frond its baneful fruits,.” “Dining
last journey, (says Dr. Philip, oi ^
interior tribes of South Africa,) I
From the Foreign Missionary Chronicle.
MORAL ASPECT OF PAGAN
I-A N t DS. have assumed on this subject, by their
“The fabric o< Hindooism, says the j. brethren in North Britain. r I lie Mis- ,
cottish Missionary Society, appears , onnry Register of October last, con-
i be shaking to its foundation. tains an address of the Scottish Mis-
flity in regard to their own system of s j onarv Society, in the conclusion of
lief is making ra >id progress among ^hiohi they thus speak:
“When America is thus stretching
forth her hands to the heathen, shall
Scotland draw hers back? While she
is extending, shall we be diminishing
our operations? While she is devising
liberal things, shall we be devising how
little v.'i shall do for the world? The
command of Christ is as obligatory as
II* ILIICM IUI ci luvo wi --- >' - i ever—Go ye into all the ivorld, and
arl people who came four or fi\c nays | p reac i l iy e gosjeel to evemj creature.—
jmney to request me to send them j glory of God is as prostrate among
issionaries; and one tribe had been ,[ ie na tions as ever: the misery of the
iree weeks on the road by which l was boathen is as deplorable as ever: the
value of immortal souls is ns inestima
ble as ever: the prospect of success iv
as cheering as ever: the enemies of
the gospel are as active as ever: thp
reward of faithfulness is as glorious as
of that amazing futurity which awaits
all the human race. If our minds are
deeply impressed with a sense of God’s
supreme government and impartil judg- i
ment, we shall be chiefly solicitous to
approve ourselves to him; we shall re- <
joice when we see religion prevail a-
mong our fellow sinners, whoever they
are. or by whatever instrument; we |
shall be pleased with the appearance of.
real virtue and piety in those who may
not in all points think with us. We j
shall choose,to hope the best we can of |
doubtful characters; and the more rea
dy to condemn our ow n real faults, than |
to censure the suspected faults ol our .
brethren. I
True religion is pura and peacca-1
ble. Union afid unat imity is a most j
important duty, which equally concerns
Christians of all denominations. Union ^
in judgment and opinion is very desira- j
ble, and what we could wish, though
pass, to request me to send them
Sissionaries ” “A spiiit of Svlid in-
hiiry, (says Mr. Judson, of Burmah,)
extending through the whole wilder-
but no signs of a great change
e vet visible.”
Of New Zealand, the Church Mis-
ionary Society says: “The solicitude
lithe different tribes to have missiona-
jes among t lie tn, is one of the cheering
idicatinns of the progress of the mis-
fon. This, doubtless, springs in part
om secular and selfish motives; but
tends, under the divine blessing, to
,e diffusion of the light and grace of
ie glorious gospel of the blessed God
iroughout the Island, and therein we
ijoice—yea, and will rejoice.”
The labors of the Gutzlaff, exhibit
„e disposition which is beginning to
e felt by the Chinese on this subject
long the coast of that immense empire;
rid the fact that the Wesleyan Mis-
ionaries, who have recently passed r.n
i commence a mission station w est ot
he Rocky Mountains, have been led
do so, in consequence of a special
Application for missionaries by the Flat-
ad Indians, with other intimations of
similar character from other tribes,
in to confirm the beliet that the Lord
. 'preparing his way, for the establish
ment of his kingdom in the ea r ch.
Would to God that it could be said
,iat the growth of a spirit ot activity
nd prayer, in the Protestant churches,
encouraging as it is, bore a just pto-
•tion, to those enlarged indications of
ever, and the curse of negligence is as
tremendous as ever. In short, in what
ever point of light we contemplate the
subject, the motives to holy activity are
as great or greater lhan ever. And is
this a time to relax in our endeavors?
When tin* call is to advance to the bat
tle, shall we, in Scotland, sound a re
treat? We hope better things of our
beloved country. We trust that de
nunciation will never lie fulfilled in her
—Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of
the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabit
ants thereof, because they came not j
to the help of the Lord, to the help of
the Lord against the mighty.” j
From the Vermont Chronicle.
UNION AMONG CHRISTIANS.'
I Messrs. Editors:—Permit me, thro’ j
the medium of your valuable paper, to j
make a few further remarks upon the j
subject of Christian union. Among all j
the topics that are before the Christian j
public, there is none more deserving j
of attention. From my own observa
tions, 1 believe that there is already a
desire enkindled in the bosom of many,
for the happy period, when the friends
of the benevolent Jesus shall lie of one
mind, all united in the bonds of Chris
tian benevolence. Love to Christians
it is not to be expected, considering the j
imperfections of human nature. Per- |
haps it is morally impossible, consider
ing the diversity of men’s education,
capacities and religious instruction,
that they should all agree in judgment i
and opinion. What appears to me more I
important and necessary, is union of \
the heart. This, in the most eminent j
sense, implies a peaceful temper, which
Christians of different opinions in reli
ction may and ought to maintain to
wards each other; which will do much
greater honor to the gospel, and to ho-
man nature, than the most perfect uni
formity of opinion that can be imagin
ed, whore there is no unity in affec
tion. The g: eat. and powerful cement
which united lhe souis of primitive
Christians, was their mutual love.—
Their hearts in the emphaticnl lan
guage of holy w rit, “were knit togeth
er in love ” This had been declared
by their divine INI aster to be distinguish
ed badge of their profusion. ‘ By this
irtion, to inoso eiuai peu i**"*"—;— -• is one of the great principles of true re-
'rovidence in respect to a benighted j |jjri 0 n ) and a most eminent mark of re-
mrld! With what acceleration must | generation. Our Saviour tells us—8t
hese evangelical movements advance, | [j C ]j es t knows in what true religion
They are not to disappoint the hopes conp | s t a —that love to God and man is
if pagan lands. The devoted Chris
ian will not only rejoice in every ac-
ession to the missionary ranks; in
uch united measures, as the one ot
he Christians in Mercer county, no-
iced incur last No., in the unsolicit-
id association for these purposes, of
routh & Sabbath school children of our
lurches, but the general increase of
lesirc and prayer on this subject. lhe
following sentences, in a letter from
me of the members of a Reformed
Presbyterian Church, containing sub-
Uantial proofs ot its correctness, will
fte trust, be read with interest and ap
plication by young men in the many
congregations connected with the Pres
byterian church.
“The missionary spirit is beginning
to be deeply felt, and in some measure,
the substance of both law and gospel.
And charity, the Apostle calls the bond
of perfectness. The man who is go
verned by the principle of Christian
love, will neither wilfully disobey his
Maker, rior injure a fellow creature.—
He will conscientiously discharge the
whole circle of religious and moral du
ties. Ho will study those things which
will adorn his Christian profession which
will do honor to his Redeemer, & tend
to promote peace, harmony and una
nimity among his brethren. True re
ligion does not contract, but enlarge
the heart. It inspires it with candor
and liberality of sentiment; it banishes
bigotry, hatred and envy, which de
bases the Chiistian character and scan
dalize its profession. We should ever
entertain favorable sentiments, where
o operate among us. The youth of nothing appears to forbid them—
m congregation—the future hopes of. While we are industrious to promote
ilio church, are employing themselves! piety, correct errors and convert sin-
n a glorious cause, and manifesting ! ners, we should be careful that our zeal
much zeal for the spread of the pre-J urge us not to measures inconsistent
ciuus gospel among the heathen. How I with peace und charity, and subversive
iifTerently do they employ their idle of order and religion. We should sut-
lours and their spare funds from the fer no worldly, purty, selfish motive, to
chiidren of tho last generation! Sure
ly this indicates much for the future
control us in our religious conduct;
but speak and act under a solemn sense
shall all men know that ye are my dis
ciples, if ye have love one to another.” ;
As this, therefore, is the great criteri- j
en of the Christian character, and the!
foundation of the Christian unity, what
ever alienates the affections of Christi
ans from one another, is manifestly
subversive of both, and may conse- j
quently, with the greatest truth and en- j
eigy, be denominated division j
j The professors of the same Christian I
religion, by whatever human names, or
modes of worship, or peculiar tenets, ■
| distinguished from each other, are bre-
Itiiren, as united in one common inter- i
est, under one common Head. It is
most evident, that all real Christians
are possessed of the same principle of
benevolence. So far as they are actu
ated by this Christian temper, they
will cultivate a regard to the common
safety of religion and happiness of;
each other, and will guard agajnst
whatever may tend to interrupt the gen-
eray harmony. There must be agree
ment, though there is no need of argu
ment in every circumstance. It is not
necessary that children of one family,
or members of one society, whether j
civil or religious, should think exactly j
alike, in order to love as brothers, or j
be united in affection. Men may dif- |
fer much in their opinions in religion,
with regard to modes and circumstan
ces, and yet live in harmony and friend
ship, die in favor and charity with each
other, and he followed by citizens of
the New Jerusalem hereafter.
I have no disposition to set up one
class of Christians above another, to
pronounce one infallible, and another
perversely heretical; but I wish to sec
among all good Christians the arms of
charity extended to embrace one anoth
er—to see the strong bearing the infir
mities of the weak, and each studying,
not merely “to please himself, but to
please his neighbor for their good to
edification; for even Christ pleased not
himself.”
If Christians desire either to secure
the favor or to advance the cause of
their Redeemer in this world, they
should endeavor as far as possible to
speak the same thing. They should
endeavor to use phrases in which Chris
tians are generally agreed. Especial
ly, they should study to express their
ideas in scripture language. We must
not unnecessarily contend with one an
other, hut rather maintain a uqanim-
ous temper; we should wave unneces
sary controversies and debates, and
manage those which arc necessary with
candor, and delight to speak most con
cerning those great and excellent
thi igs in which, as Christians, we can
not but be agreed, and which, if prop
erly considered, will cement our hearts
to each other in the strictest 8t most
tender bonds The great Apostle Paul
most earnestly entreated and exhorted
the Corinthians, as his friends &. breth
ren, that each one would lie united in
affection, and agree to talk of the same
doctiines of Christ, just as they had re
ceived them from him, pure and uncor
rupted—that there might be no schisms
among them, or an alienation of hearts
and affections one from another. They
were brethren by faith and profession;
they worshipped the same God—they
professed the same religion—were uni
ted by the same spiiit—encouraged by
the same promises—partakers of the
same hope—and heirs of the same glo
ry. So exceedingly was the the Apos
tle’s heart set upon Ins duty, that in
both of his epistles to the Corinthians
he presses them very earnestly to the
love and practice of it. In tho first and
last chapters, he exhorts them to be
“perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment,” that
is, to coincide in affection and concur
and love. In Ilia second epistle and
la-t chapter, lie exhorts.—“Be of one
mind, live in peace, and the God of
love and peace be with you ” How
imnortaut did the Apostle consider this
duty, when it is the first winch ho re
commends to their consideration in his
former epistlo, and the last which lie
recommends to their attention and prac
tice in his latter epistle! by this, inti
mating to us, that unity of judgment
and affectien is the first and last thing
to be respected among Christians, as
being both the beginning and perfec
tion of lhe gospel temper. Let us be
exhorted, by the various considerations
which the Apostle suggests, to culti
vate peace and unttv
; “Where envy and strife are, there
is confusion and every evil work.” —
i “Whatsoever we do,” says the Apos
tle, “do all to the glory of God, giving
no offence, neither to Jew nor Gentile,
nor to the church of God. Be ye like
minded one towards another according
to Chri.-t Jesus, that ye may with one
mind and one mouth glorify God.” To
the same purpose are his exhortations
to all the churches, and especially to
those in which a diversity of opinions
concerning ceremonial usages threat
ened their internal peace. “Bear the
infirmities of the weak. Let every one
please his neighbor for his good to edi
fication. Be ye like minded one to
wards another, that ye may with one
mind and one mouth glorify God. Ful
fil ye my jov, that ye be of one accord,
of one mind.” N. S.
MISCELLANEOUS
ST. PATRICK’S DAY.
I was a good deal struck the other
day in reading, in a Baltimore paper,
the following notice. “On Monday,
tho 17th of March, St. Patrick’s day,
a solemn High Mass will be sung in
St. Patrick’s church, Fell’s Point, and
the panegyric of the Saint will be deliv
ered.” It suggested some thoughts
which I beg leave to communicate.
Why should the 17th of March be
called St. Patrick’s day? How is it
his day more than yours or mine ? 'V hat
property had he in it more than others f
He died on that day, it is true. But
was he the only one that died on that
day? Many thousands must have died
on the same day. Does a man’s dying
on a particular day make it his? Ah,
but ho was a saint. How is that ascer
tained? Who saw his heart? I hope
he was a good man. Indeed I have
no reason to believe but that he was a
renewed perion. But I think we ought
to be cautious how we so positively pro
nounce our fellow creatures saints.—
Especially should Catholics, since even
Peler himself, though, as they affirm,
infallible, did not express himself so
confidently, for ho says in his first e-
pistlo 5th ch. and 12th verse ot Silvanus,
“a faithful brother unto you, as I sup
pose.
But what if he was a saint, every
real Christian is a saint. If any one
doubts this, let him consult any part
ofthe New Testament. I trust there
were many saints on earth at that time:
and I doubt not that other saints died
on that day as well as Patrick. 1 ob
ject altogether to the day being called
his. I hav£ no idea that the 365th por
tion of every year belongs peculiarly
to St. Patrick. 1 have no notion of
this parcelling out the year among the
saints, and calling one day St. Patrick’s,
arid another St. Cecilia’s, and so on.
At this rate we shall have the whole
year appropriated to dead saiuts.
Ah, but you forgot that Patrick was
canonized. The church made him a
saint, and appropriated that day to him.
But I have not much opinion of these
canonized saints-—the saints of human
manufacture. I like the sanciijied
ones better. Our Protestant saints are
“God’s workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus.” But granting the 17th of
March to be St. Patrick’s day, why
is it kept? What have we do with it,
who live so long after? Fatrick died
in 493 and here it is 1834, and they are
keeping his day, I think it is time to
have done grieving for the death of
St. Patrick, now tlmt he lias been
dead more than 1300 years, and es
pecially when he died at the good old
age of 120. Really I think it is time
that even the Irish Catholics had wiped
up their tears for him.—Tears, why,
they do not keep the day in lamentation
for him, but in honor and praise ofhiru.
High mass is to be sung as it appears
by the advertisement. Now singing
expresses praise—and his panegyric is
to he pronounced. It is wonderful
what a disposition there is among tho
Catholics to multiply the objects of their
religious honor. Oh that they were
but satisfied to praise the Lord that
made heaven and earth! But no—they
must have creatures to do homage unto
—angels, and saints of their own mak
ing, and above all the blessed A irgin,
“our heavenly mother,” as some, of
them call her. It would really seem
as if they had rather pay respect to any
other being than God! They cannot
be satisfied with the mediation of Jesus.
They must have creatures to mediate
and intercede for them. They are al
ways doing things and keeping days
in honor of the saints. How much
they talk about ti telar saints and
guardian angels. It wmuld appear as
if they had rather be under the caro of
any other beings than God!
Now the idea of .eulogizing, pane
gyrizing and [liaising here in 1834, one
St. Patrick who died in Ireland in 493,
how absurd! * Flow is piety to be pro
moted by it, 1 should like to know!
By the way, what is high mass in
distinction from low mass? They dif
fer in several respects. Among the
peculiarities of high mass, this, I be
lieve, is one, that it is more expensive
than low mass. If you want high mass
said for a poor suffering soul in Purga
tory, you have to pay more than you
do, if you are content with low mass.
And so it should be, for the high mass
is worth more. Low mass scarcely
makes an impression on a soul in pur
gatory. It is high mass that does the
business effectually and expeditious-
As for us Protestants, v*e have no
thing to do w ith these masses. We do
not find a great deal said about them
in the Bible. The Catholic will par
don me, I hope, for alluding to the Bi
ble. I am aware that it is no good au
thority with him, except now and then
a verse (entirely misunderstood) such
as that about tho rock, while they say
was Peter, on whom the chiuch w as
built according to them! Only think
now, a man that denied the founder of
Christianity three times with profane
oaths, himself the foundation of the
whole church' Nothing else for it to
rest upon but Peter! But the beauty
of it is that this foundation should have
had a long series of fundamental suc
cessors dow'n to the present Pope! I
always supposed that when a founda
tion is laid, there is an end of it, and
that all after belongs to the superstruc
ture. But this is a digression. I wai
speaking of us Protestants, that wo re
ject masses. And so we acknowledge
no distinction of days but the Lord's
day. We keep no saint’s days. We
keep tho Lord’s day. It is almost the
onlv day that some Catholics do not
keep righteously! They are so busy
with their saint’s days, that they quite
overlook the day which “the Lord hath
made.”
