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CmROKEE PHIENIX, M® INDIANS’ ADVOCATE,
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E. BOUDINOTT, Editor.
NEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2.j, 1829.
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“I must answer you in the words oi
Gibbon; “it would be takng a leap ir.
the dark.” 1 left the man as i foun
biin, and went away with the impres
sion, his was a hopeless case. Abou
six weeks after, 1 was called to visit
the same man, and found hi in in very
dilferent circumstances. He was on
bis death-bed, sinking under the pow
er of a fatal disease.—Mis sentiments
and views were also changed no less
than bis circumstances. 1 took him
by the ha.id, and risked him what he
wished me do? He replied, 1 wish
you, sir, to pray with me.” And lot
what shall 1 pray? “That I may have
I'epontunco, & preparation lor death.”
Do you think, sir, that you are soon
to die? ’‘Yes, die I must.” Have
you any doubts concerning the truth of
the Bible? “1 have no dsubts of its
truth.” Can you rest upon4he Sa
viour? “I have no interest in him.”
Will you not pray to him? “I cannot;
will you pi ay for wie?”—Can you not
repent? “No, my heart is hard as a
stone.” Poor man! the honest hour,
the trying hour had now come, and
his infidelity was gone.—How chang
ed the sentiments! how changed the
views of this man, from what they
were when 1 saw him before? Then,
a frank and acknowledged seeptie;
now, a convinced, yet impenitent sin
ner. Then, ho could not belive in
Christ, or revelation, for want of evi
dence; now, his reason is most fully
convinced, yet no new evidence has
been brought to his mind. Sad hour,
indeed, to he convinced of infidelity!
1 kneeled by his bed and tried to pray
that faith and repentance might be
given him. After prayer, I talked
with him again; hut could not learn
any thing better. The next morning
a message came for me: “Mr.
is dying; will you go ?” I went,
but it was too late to do him any
good; and 1 stood arid looked upon
him, while the spirit took that dread
ful “/cap” into the eternal world.
Surely it was “a leap in the dark!'
“It is a fearful thing to fall into the
hands of the living God.”
Pastor's Journal.
by-
HELISIOUS.
A LEAP IN THE DARK.
{Fi/rnished by a Clergyman.]
In my pastoral visits, in the town
.*>f , where I was then residing, 1
called upon a family, with the father
►of which, this was my first personal
interview. He was a man of intcr-
TO PARENTS. •
Children are born to an endless ex
istence, and time is the threshold
which ushers their souls into eternity.
This short and single step of life is to
them fraught with the most moment
ous consequences. The well-being
or the wretchedness of tiie soul de
pends upon it. Watchfulness and en-
ifisting appearance, and his counten , , , .
once was highly expressive of iutelli- ! lightened care during this short mo-
,gence. His age about 40, and around ‘ " c *" u 1
him clustered the yonng immortals
committed to his care. He w'as a lit
tle indisposed, and was perusing some
volume, I suppose, of history. He
readily laid it aside, and with much
apparent checrfulncssf answered my
.■inquiries concerning his soul. In the
course of our conversation, he made
the following disclosures. He said,
*‘I cannot receive the Bible as a rev
elation from God.” Why can you
not? “There appears to me not suf
ficient evidence.” Do you find suffi
cient evidence against it, that you
dare reject the Bible? “No, I can
neither receive nor reject it.” How
long have you been in this state?
“Several years.” And have you cx-
. a rained into the evidence adduced to
* prove the authenticity of the Bible? “I
' have searched and read pvery thing
I could find—I have made it a great
•study; but here I am, in perfect un
certainty.” Do you fepl happy in
^your present state? “No, I am a
wreteiied mm—1 wish I had the con
solations of those who can believe the
Bible.” I said to him, “then it is
.honestly the case with yon, that you
• doubt whether there ever was such
ta person as Jesus Christ, or any truth
1 in his words recorded; doubt concern-
ling a future state,a heaven or ia hell in
Vhe coming world?” “Yon, that is
I ny ease, hut I enn’t help it!” Should
j 'on die, sir, this night, where do yon
< hiuk you would go?” Ha replied,
incut of time secure happiness and
peace; while carelessness and indif
ference entail on the individual pain
and misery, without mitigation and
without end.
Parents,—even professing Chris
tian parents,—are seen on every side
of us, mindful of the lesser parts of
their duty, but forgetful of the grea
ter. They are anxious, and careful,
and constant, in securing and promot
ing the bohlily health and the tempor
al comforts of thejr lille ones;-and in
dulging, not improperly, in the grati
fication derived from the neatness
of their apparel, the activity and
sprightliness of their motions, the men
tal energy or quickness of Observation
indicated by their remarks, and the
genteel address, modest demeanor
manliness of conduct, or dignity of sen
timent, which they can sometime per
ceive in these objects of their tendcr-
cst affection.—But, alas! in how few
instances do we perceive a similar
anxiety about religion?—In what par
ticular line of conduct towards their
children can we trace ny thing like
an equal share of exertion for their
spiritual welfare?—These temporali
ties,—good in themselves no doubt
hut yet hut temporal—seem to ab
sorb all their care, and to the pronto!
mg and perfecting of which, at leas*
ninetenths of their exertions are de
voted. 0 how painful!—to see ra
tional creatures thus amusing (hern-
selves, and playing antics with immor
al soul-*, as if they were mere
ie s toys, and miqle only lor .atnu*»t-
ncut! Souls, which are doomed to
•njoy or to endure an eternity «i
.lessedness or wo; and whose onq
jiance of attaining the one, and «
scaping the other, is inclosed witliiiV
ihat delicate bubble of life and time,
with which their inhuman parents
ire so thoughtlessly sporting; seeming
ly unconscious, that the slightest ac
cident or disarrangement of particles
may in a moment hurst the airy eonri-
lound, and consign the darling objects
if their folly to endless and irretriev
able) ruin.
There are, however, many ltomr-
able exceptions to this general neg
lect. Parents who feel, as well is
profess to know, the value of souk,
will not allow their attention (o l,e
absorbed by the things of the w ord;
and though careful and even troubl'd
about many things, they will never
forget that for their children as well
as for themselves.is there but onetliirg
needful. They value their children,
not as they value toys, by the plea
sure and amusement which they at
present communicate, but as destin
ed to he their companions and frierds
in another state. Their love for thtir
i hildren is of too noble and dignifieda
kind to admit, for a moment of any de
gree of comfort or satisfaction at the
idea of a perpetual separation at
death. Their views and their hopes
extend beyond the grave; and, it)the
s irit of true Christian pilgrims, they 1
not only rise above the world in their j
own affections, and steadily and daily i
look beyond it for their settled enjoy
ments, but they labour assiduously to
bring their little companions,—those |
lambs of Christ’s flock, which their
heavenly Father has given them to
feed,—to indulge the same desires, to
cherish the same hopes, and to en
deavour by all means, within them
selves, to secure an interest in that
inheritance which is incorruptible and
ttndefiled, and which fadetli not a-
way.
To such parents, we would with all
the w armth of brotherly affection and
esteem, say, “Our hearts are enlarg
ed towards you.” We lejoioe, that
the Lord has put it into your heart to
do this thing; and would gladly re
mind you of the premise made by the
God of truth, that the child who is
thus trained up in the way he ought to
go, wil: not, when he is old deport
from it. But we would most affec
tionately remind you, at the same
time, that the religion of your child
must he the same in kind, if not in de
gree, with your own. \ ou know, and
you feel, that your religion has its
sent, not in the head, hut in the heart,
—and so must the religion of your
child. • You know, that your religion
consists, not in empty sounds, nor
mere professions: hut, in the fruits
of a living faith, in denying yourself to
sin, and living to holiness and to
God; and that all the satisfaction of
religion which you eujoy, arises pure
ly from a knowledge of the love of
God as exhibited in Jesus Christ, and
the daily delight which you receive,
in being enabled by his grace, more
and more to conform your life to his
will, and to live to his glory. Now'
this is what your child must be taught,
and this is the only way in which be.
ns well as you yourself must go. if
you ever expect to meet each other
in heaven. This is religion; & any thing
shWt of ill’s is spurious & false. Be
w'nre. then, in resting in that kind of
verbal instruction for your child,
which has been so improperly termed
a religions education, or of being sat-
'sfied with that religion which is so
only in name. S. S. j)lag.
iRV ING,
MOORi
'J.
An?er is an approach to insanity.
Wisdom, though spurious, is never
sullen.
Weak people, arc apt to be posi
tive.
\ fonsr-quill is more dangerous
than a lion's claw..
SCOTT, AND
COMPARED.
From the North Ameiicun Review for
Junuary, 1820.
We cannot refrain lioin expressing
our satisfaction at the very favoura
ble manner w ith which Mr. Irvings
Life of Columbus’ compart s with
one or two works of similar kind, that
were published about the same time
y the best writers of the mother
country Tl>«. 'Lrifc of Napolcau by
ir Walter Scott, and the ‘Life oi
Sheridan by Moore, particularly the
former, resembling it so nearly in
plan and form, that, coming out, as
they all did, about the same time,
they exhibit in a measure a trial of
skill between three of the most ele.
gent writers of the day.' V\ e let I a
good deal of pride as Americans in ad
ding, that our countryman appears to
have retired from the dangerous con
test with a very decided advantage,
we think we might say a complete vic
tory, over both his competitors. Wc
mean not to deprive these illustrious
transatlantic hards of any fame, to
which they may he justly entitled, by
the productions in question; nor do
wc mean to represent Mr. Irving’s
general reputation as at the pi t sent
superior or equal to theirs. VI e sim
ply state the fact ns it is, considering
it to he one highly honorable to our
countrymen and our country. We
shall even go farther, being in a pat
riotic vein, and while we freely ad
mit tlint Mr. Irving’s fame is mid
ought to be, at present, inferior to
I that of the two British poets above
mentioned, we shall take the liberty
of adding, that w'e are not quite sure
whether it will always remain so.
Moore and Scott have already done
their best, and from the character
of their productions for some years
past, as compared with those of car
er date, it is evident that they will
not hereafter excel or perhaps equal
their past efforts. Mr. Irving s tal
ent seems to us, on the contrary, to
he ia a state of progress; for although
his second manner he, as w e think, in-
fe' ior, on the whole, to his first, the
difference is not, as we have already
expressly stated, owing to any decay
of genius, but to an ’unfavorable
change of scene and subject; and in
this first specimen of a third series of
publications, we recognise, though
under a somewhat graver form, a de
velopment of power superior to that
which is displayed by any of the pre
ceding ones, even should the ‘History
of New York,’ as a bold original crea
tion, he considered as belonging to a
higher class of writings. We also
recognise in the selection of the sub
ject, the persevering industry with
which the work has been executed,
and the high tone of moral feeling that
runs through the whole of it, the symp
toms of a nohle spirit on which the
intoxicating cup of public applause
acts as a stimulent rather than an
opiate. Mr. Irving is still in the vig
our of life and health; and when we
see him advancing in his course in this
way, with renovated courage and re
doubled talent, at an age when too
many hearts begin to wax premature
ly faint, we are induced to anticipate
the happiest results from his future
labours; and are far from being cer
tain, ns we said above, that he may
not in the end eclipse the most illus
trious of his present contemporaries
and rivals. We rejoice to find, from
the selection of the subject of the
work now hefore us, that though long
a wanderer, his thoughts are still
bent ori the land of his birth. Although
we w ish not to hasten his return he
fore the period when he shall himself
deem it expedient, we indulge the
hope that lie will sooner or later fix
Ins residence among us, and can as
sure him that whenever he rnay think
woper to do so. he will be welcomed
' v his countrymen as a well deserving
citizen and a public benefactor,
From the Mobile (Alah.) Commercial
Register.
We learn from Tuscasoosa, that a
Bill is in its passage in the Se nate, io
lay on the linnaii territory, embraced
within the geographical limits ot ihe
State, into Counties; to extend s.ntl
exercise jmisdiction o\er it—to fa x
every person who lesiia s in it, ^I*im.nff
of course,) cornpvl them to work ou
roads, &c
e arc aware that our notions oil
this subject are somewhat old fash
ioned, but as an excuse for not keep
ing pace with our new Hedged politi
cians, in their innovations upon usages
that are associated w ith nil that is dear
to the heart of an American 1 atnot,
wc subjoin an extract fron. the Con
stitution ol the Stale, and should he
extremely gratified to learn how onr
‘ most potent, grave and revert mi”
Senators are going to dispose of it.—
Wo will premise, however, that ill
the year lblb the Congress of the
I'nitcd States passed an act admitting
the Teniloiy ol Alabama to the priv
ileges of a State, on the condition
named in the ordinance of Congress cf
the 12lh July, I'iS?, for the govern
ment of the w estern territory of the
United States, the third article of
which declares—
“That the utmost good faith shall
nhvays be observed towards the In
dians; their lands and property shall i.r>
ver be taken from them without thi ir
consent—and in their property, right,
and liberty, they shall never be inva
ded or disturbed, unless in just and
lawful, wars, authorized by Con
gress.”
The extract from the Constitution
to which we have reference is in tie
following words:—
“This coinniit'ce for and in behalf
of the people inhabiting this Stale do
accept the proposition offered hy the
Act of Congress, under which they
are assembled, and this convention
for and in behalf of the people inhabi
ting this Slate, do ordain, agree, and
declare, that they forever disclaim all
right or title to the waste or unapj ro-
priated lands lying w ithin this State,
and that the same shall be and remain
rf the sole and entire disposition of
the United States; and moreover, tl at
each and every tract cf land sold by
the United Stales, after the first of
Septemer next, shall be and remain
exempt from any tax laid hy order or
under the authority of this State^
wheather for state, county, township,
parish or any ot her purpose whatever
for the term of five years, from nnct
after the respective days of the sales
thereof; and that uo tax shall be im
posed on lands the property of the Uir
it ed States,”
MORE INDIAN MURDERS.
The follow ing is an extract of a let
ter to the Editor, from a respectable
citizen of Miller county, tilled 16th
inst.
“With deep concern, I have to in
form yon of more Indian hostilities- A
Mr. Whitesides has just returned from
a trip to the Camanche country. Dis
rompnny. four in number, w ere all kill-
ed! Mr. Joel Dyer, of Hempstead
roHiity was among the number. J he
Indians commenced trading with them
in a seining friendly manner, hut scoa
coRimenced the work of massacre.
Mr. Whitesides made his escape, hy
leaping down a high bluff, and conceal?
ed himself in a thicket, until night,
when he returned, and saw the bodies
of his murdered companions. lie
picked up a few scraps of meat,(hav
ing no gun), on which he subsisted
sparingly ten days, after which he was
five days w ithout any provisions before ■
he reached our settlements.
“These prairie Indians doubtless
intend mal ing war or the w hite inhab
itants of this frontier, which is grept'v
exposed; and it is to he fcard that
much dninare will he done in the spring
tf not sooner, unless the government
