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CHEROKEE PIUEXIX AXD OMAWS’ ADVOCATE. CHEROKEE NATION, PROPRIETOR. EDITED BY ELIJAH HICKS. VOL. V. NEW ECHOT/%, CHEROKEE RATION, SATURDAY, HAY 14, 1834. AO. 49. PRINTED WEEKLY, it #250 if paid in ad>pnoe, $8 in six inths, or #3 50 il paid ai 1 he end of the To subscribers who can retd only the broliee language the price will he #200, advance, or #2,50 to be paid within the fivcry subscription will be considered a> ntinued unless subscribers give notice to i contrary before the commencement of a >w year, and aU arrearages paid. \ny person procuring six subscribers id becoming responsible for the payment, isll receive a seventh gratis. •jt3».\\l letters addressed to the Editor, is, paid, will receive due attention "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.”