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WYANDOT BWSfiIOW.
ToJhe Editors of t\e Methodht Magazine.
l't>p<-r-sandnsky, Wyandot )
Reservation, Due. 12, lU?2.
**; l>e*n Brethren,
Permit me to lay hefore yon some par
ticular? respecting the Wyandot Mission at
paper Sandusky, which, if you deem expe
dient, Anay tie pnMishpri in your Magazine.
At the last Ohio-Conference 1 was op
pointed Missionary for this place; and the
Rev. James B. Finley, uiy predecessor
here, who rides the district in which it is
inftuded, superintends the Mission, and vis
its us once a quarter. On the sth of Octo
ber, I and ny wife ariiteil here, after trav
elling two hundred miles from our former
circuit, and commenced our Missionary la
bours under such trials as are usual on such
occasions. Great things, under God, have
been alycadydone here. Upwards of sixty
persons of this nation belong to ntir church,
most of whom, in all appearance, are sin
cere and happy Christians; walking in all
the commandments of God to the best of
tfieir knowledge and power. The grsater
part has continued live years in the Chris
tian path, and there are as few instances of
and apostaev among them, in
•any opinion, as among most of white people.
There are now several very zealous, and
comparatively, well informed exhorters,;
who speak to their people with warmth,
judgment and effect. After the preacher
has fiui-hed his seim >n by’ the interpreter,!
each of them for the most part, gives his
exhortation, and very frequently accompa
•nied with tears, which has a very good es
-sect, for they confirm what the preacher
says, and generally take tip some part of
hls discourse, as the subject of their exhor
tation. The most influential, and greater
part of this nation, are now Christians, ei
ther in theory or practice. But there is
an opposite party who oppose Christianity,
And are attached to their old heathenish su
perstitions and traditions, whose cause is
fa*! declining. Christianity by being prop
erly and perseveringly inculcated, will final
•ly prevail over nil these.
As to the state of the school, little has
been done before this year, unless by way ,
of preparation. My’ worthy piedecessor
did a much 9 possibly could he done by
iny person in that nay. Our school com
iwenced, October 22J: on the 27th we had
eight childrca. On the 4th of November,
we had eighteen: on the 13h, we had
twenty-seven : and we have now thirtvsev
ea scholars, all of whom, except two, board
trifli iia. The childien are learning very
? fast, all things considered. It is needless to
insist that the instruction cf these children
is of great importance, as this must appear
Wain to every person of consideration.
They will be here taught to read, and per
haps to write, and some other p.,rt* of edu
cation. They shall by this means be quali
fied to read the bible for themselves, and to
teach their parents and Ihe generation that
xviil succeed them. The boys will, it is
contemplated, be instructed in some practi
cal husbandry; and fmm among them, no
doubt, v.ill he raised up preachers who will
both preach to their own nation, and carry
the gospel to other Indian tribes with mrp
success, than white men can ever do.
They will, in all probability, a gen
eration of good citizens, pious* Christians,
and industrious farmers, for their hontini;
■>vifl soon be done. The girls will be taught
to sew, spin, knit, weave, cook, &c. and
will be t.ius qualified to become obedient
wives and teuder molhers. In short, the
instruction of the rising generation will en
tirely change, under the blessing of God, the
“Whole nation lor ihe better.
The Mission family now in this plade, is
?| . follows; myself and wife, two young
meh, one young woman, and an in’erirre
fer; besides another young woman that we
hired with difficulty till Christmas. The
women have three times as much to do as
they are able at present in striving to make
clothes for half-naked children, washing and
cooking, besides every other part of house
work, without being suitably furnished to
do any of these things without much addi
tional labour and trouble. We expected
too young womeo before this time, but ow
ing to their sickness, and that of brothers
Jacob Young and James B. Finley, who
were to provide them, they have Dot come,
end we expect none sooner than three
weeks. Brother Finley was sick at the
lime of, and after, conference, and perhaps
is now, so that onr lot is for the pregent a
very laborious one. As to myself, I had to
teach the school till a few days ago alto
gether, besides providing for onr large fam
ily: but the interpreter teaches the school
now; but it so increases that I shall be un
der the necessity of re-commencing it with
him again; and how I can attend to other
matters is more than I can tell, unless by
some miraculous aid, which I do not expect
nor wish. The hours not devoted to school,
are closely employed in regulating so maoy ■
boys and girls taken out of the woods, and !
Unaccustomed to onr manners and customs, j
The school will, in all probability, amount
lo about fifty by next Christinas, (if it must
not be stopped for want of means to support j
jt, of which there appears something very
like it at present) and next spring and sum
mer, to between seventy and an hundred of
the Wyandot nation; besides there is a
number of the Seneca children that we are
solicited to lake. This, if not the certain,
i undoubtedly the probable view of the fu
ture state of this school, and amounts in my
opinion to its real prospect.
\Ye want many things now to enable us
tncsyiy ‘Mi this establishment. Many of the
children are halfnaked or more ; their old
h ggins, mockasins, huniing shirts, he. are
worn out. With much struggling we have
got them two shirts apiece, so as to be ena
bled to put on clean shirts every week,
which, by the rvav, is a very necessary ex
pedient 10 prevent ***. We have only
ti n-knives uud forks for a family amounting
to more forty persons. We are so ill j
• w” 4*
jeflffor heils and llanluls, that I tJrcad, as
the approach of a deadly enemy, the com
ing winter. What will ensue, I cannot tell
i precisely ; hut this I know, that without a
specd/relief we will be reduced to the
l greatest extremity. Most of the nation are
nmv nt a distance hunting, and if, when they
! return, they find some of their children I’ro
: zen and others almost famished, it will have
a serious effect, after our churches having
pledged their faith to support them, Eve
ry sort of clothing is needed, such n linen
and woollen clo’th, factory cotton, shoes,
i hat?, stockings, kc. for children from four
j years of age to full maturity. We need
money; I have now only a few dollars, and
I owe, on the Mission's account, twice that
j sum. Ido not spread this alarm, to give
any, even the most remote idea, that broth
er Finley has neglected us; for no man
j could do more than he has done. But per
haps he is now sick; he lives more than a
hundred miles from here, and when he left
, this place he did not expect the school
would increase as it has done. Perhaps he
has got supplies, and certainly he will not
be wanting on his part. Surely every be
nevolent mind will assist us. I need not add
anymore. My paper is almost done. We
will struggle on (ill we hear what the pub
. lick will do; we hope God will support us.
CHARLES ELLIOT.
From the Christian Herald.
REVIVAL OF RELIGION.
DICKINSON COLLEGE, CARLISLE.
?n the midst of mercies and of judgments,
how delightful is the assurance that the
people of these United Stales are not for
gotten before the Lord. He has been
mindful of his covenant.
If pestilence, wasting sicknesses, and
death, have visited many parts of our coun
try, to humble, to solemnize, and to awaken
ns, yet God has been pleased, in many pla
ces, also to vouchsafe the healihlul influ
ot bis grace; sanctifying (be dispensations
of His providence for the salvation of pre
cious and immortal souls. Revivals of re
ligion, commonly so called, are blessings
almost peculiar to this country; and for
which every bear', that breathes adoration
1 to God, and benevolence to man, bound
to be grateful to the Author of life, the giv
er of every good and perfect gift. We are
often forcibly reminded of the prophet’s
declaration in past ages, “in the last days
it shall come to pa’*, that the mountain of
the house of the Lord shall be established
in the top of the mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills; and people shall
flow unto it.’’
In many instances the Lord hath merci
fully sent the showers of his grace on our
seminaries of learning, consecrating by his
Holy C'pirit the tender affections of yootb
to the love and service of the Divine Re
deemer of their souls. Dickinson College,
I oely, resuscitated at Carlisle, has been fa
voored with a revival of religion, as well as
a part of the Rev. Mr. Duflield’s congrega
tion in that borough.
In the months nfSeplember and October
last, some dispensations of providence io
the surrounding country, were of a nature
calculated to awaken reflection. The
preaching of the pastor was faithful; his
attention to pastoral duties diligent; and
bis prayers for a revival of religion ardent
and persevering. The communion season,
in the early part of November, was unusu
aHv solemn, and some of the young men in
College were seriously impressed. One or
two of them applied for Christian instruc
tion. On the lGin ot November took place
the death of Mr James Hull Mason, a
young gentleman who had graduated in
June last, and had for two months taught
the grammar school with much approba
tion. lie was the fourth son of the Rev.
Dr. Mason, president of the College, and a
yonth so pious, amiable, and exemplary, as
to have commanded, in an uncommon de
gree, the affections of his youthful compan
ions, and the sincere esteem of a respecta
ble community. It was remarked, that no
decease, within recollection, has produced
so powerful an effect on the publick feeling.
Ihe young men in College, by whom he
was greatly beloved, were penetrated with
grief at the sudden decease of their youth
fill friend, anil some of them, on that very
day, were roused to a sense of their own
danger, and to call on the name of the Lord
that they might be saved. The funeral
was uumerously attended on tire following
day, and the address at the grave, delivered
by the Rev. Mr. M’Cartee of New York,
proved pungent and powerful, so that the
whole assembly were bulbed in tears. In
the Collegp there were, from the boginning
of the present spssion, ten yontbful profes
sors of religion, of decided piety. From
them, accounts reached Mr. Dufiield, two
days after the funeral, that there were
eight of the students deeply exercised about
i the state of their souls; the number soon
I increased to fourteen. The eight that
j were originally impressed, had some bosom
! friends in College, who felt alarmed at the
rashness (as they deemed it) of the young
converts; fearing it was only a temporary
I excitement which would wear off, and leave
them with the reproach of being hypocrites
or backsliders. Frequent interviews, how
ever, assured the friends of the young inqui
rers, that the work of grace in their hearts
was genuine ; and their conviction and sin
cerity likely to ensure a consistent and per
severing profession of religion.
1 his produced a most happy effect; the
doubting advisers became themselves also
inquirers; and, blessed be God, were ena
bled to lay down the wisdom of this world
at the foot of the Cross, and with their af
fectionate friends, to desire the sincere milk
of the word, that they might grow thereby.
Some of them passed through deep exercis
es of mind, of fasting, and agoniziug prayer,
I before they received that hope that mak
jeth not ashamed, because the love of God
\i shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
| Ghost which is given to us. They imrae
‘dialefy formed themselves into n Society
for prayer, and met weekly nt the hour
when tho new’inquirers, and those of the
students who r.pmfe for the first iime, weie
,to meet in private with the Rev. Mr. Duf-j
field for religious instruction and direction,
j In the College rooms, where the occupants
were of the numbrr thus awakened and.
j comforted, morning and evening worship’
was attended loin the manner usually tol-1
lowed in family worship. The peace and j
joy which filled the minds of those dear I
young men, led them forth as zealous mis
sionaries to plead with their fellow-students !
yet earless, to seek after God; and to per- j
j severe in seeking until they found him. j
i The first arrow which seemed to fasten in
their youthful minds was the fear of death:
“ were I called by rapid fever, as James;
Mason was, to pass into eternity, have Ia
solid hope for mv immortal spirit that all
wouldhe well in that interminable home ofj
the soul ?”
Aware of their past neglect, of the value 1
ol the soul, of the possibility of sudden I
;death, of their absolute dependence for’
! temporal life, from hour to hour, on that j
. God whom they were daily provoking by
j their sms, they perceived the necessity of
immediate attention to this, of all others,
the most important object, and betook them
selves to prayer, reading of the word of
God, anJ anxious inquiries of their spiritual
guides, u What they should do to be saved ?”
It is worthy of observation also, that as
each ol them found peace, it was generally
given by the powerful application of some
comforting promise in the sacred text to
the heart and conscience have reason
to trust) by the Spirit of God. It was a
work truly delightful to behold sometimes
two,, at other times four new students com
ing forward a humble and anxious inquirers
after the way of salvation.
The number of (he awakened soon in
creased to twenty-six; and there are pro
bably thirty-five, ot whom good hopes are
entertained for thirty, as being truly regen
erated by the Holy Spirit, and united by a
living faith to that dear Redeemer who is
the living vine, able to nourish all the liv
ing brauches to eternal life.
This number, added to the ten originally
pious, form a happy proportion of tbe
whole number of students, in Dickinson
College which does not exceed seventy
seven. Nor is the mere profession of re
ligion the only fruit of this revival. The
awakened Students Jisplay in their whole
conduct the lovely deportment of the dis
ciples ot Ihe blessed Saviour, and a noisy
College is now transformed iato the peace
able order of a regular family!
An opposition was at first manifested by
some of the students, and a regular organi
zation threatened to counteract the reli
gions exertions ot the new converts. One
or two of these fell off from the ranks of !
opposition, and became themselves warmly
en K a ß' e d on the side of truth. 4 seasonable
and potverful address from the Rev. Doctor
Mason, put an end to all show of opposi
tion ; and the attendance of the students on
many religious exercises of a publick nature
became almost geupral.
The special attention to spiritual things
ivas not confined to the College, but was
found to prevail in a proportion ofMr Duf
field’s congregation. He appointed an in
quiring meeting on Monday evening the
25th of November, when there were pre
sent about sixty persons from the College
and congregation.
At this meeting, one of the ministers found
himself seated between a hoary headed
man of seventy years, and a boy, of ten, a
Sunday Scholar, tvho-e softened heart bore
testimony to the work of grace.
Turning from the youthful disciple, the
minister thus addressed the aged inquirer,
ere you come to teach, or to learn? Surely
thou art not come here to learn of me. Oh
yes, was the reply ; though old in years, I
am but a babe in the spiiitual life.
A lad of fourteen, who had been able to
give a touching an<l satisfactory account of
his passing from darkness into light, and of
his resolution to serve the Lord in the
strength of bis grace; was asked if be had
any difficulties? With a solemn air, and af
ter a pause, he said, “ the suggestions of
Satan trouble me; if! pursue the course I
have now entered upon, I shall forfeit the
pleasures of this world, and his suggestions
trouble me at times.”
During a visit of nearly a fortnight, the
Rev Mr. M’Cartee was actively engaged
in forwarding the good work; and his ar
dent preaching Evidently accompanied by a
divine blessing.
Mr. Duffield has the happiness to find in
Rev. Professor M’Clellami, aaliligent, evan
gelical, and able coadjutor. The Rev. Mr.,
Ebaugh of the German Church gives all,
the kind and cordial assistance that tbe
cares of his own congregation will permit.
On Saturday evening the 30th Novem
ber, Mr. Duffield held a meeting of his
church members,’ in which they mutually
engaged, as in the sight of God, to be more
alive to tbe spiritual interests of themselves
and others; and to do all in their power by
prayer and exertion to forward the good
work now going pn; and to avoid whatever
might prejudice sinners against the religion
of Christ. At the next inquiring meeting
on the fnd December, (here were about
seventy present, and lately there have been
85, at a time whpn it was known that about
16 or 1G who had obtuined a hope were
absent.
May a graciqm God continue to vouch
safe the influences of his holy Spirit, until
many more shall be added to the Church
of such as shall be saved. The statement
of facts given above is no doubt correct,
j and may he acceptable to many readers. It
is impossible, however,to impart the spirit,
the life, the mourning, and the joy alternate
ly in exercise, where a revival of religion
extensively prevails. Christians of experi
ence appear to have their graces rekindled
anew; oew-borij Christian* yel lost in
miration at the viewTmpstf'tt'd by faith of
the glory ofGoil, thedove%f Jesus aud the
sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit.
Parents rejoice over their children; bro
thers embrace in spiritual joy ; the word is
preached with power, and received in love;
gracious affections flow out, anil the weep
ing, yet rejoicing, assembly gives an anim
ating hope that God is near.
Jvcai York, Dec. 30, 1322,
One thing is needful ; but this one thing
includes many,and may be considered in va
rious respects. The one thing needful lor a
sinner is to know Jesus and his salvation.
The one thing needful for a believer is to
live to his will, and to make him his all ;
to admire, contemplate,resemble and serve
him. A believer is a child of God ; a minis
ter is, in an especial and appropriate sense,
a servant, though a child likewise. The
one thing for a servant or steward in the
house of God is to he faithful; that is, to be
simply and without reserve, or any allowed
interfering motive,devoted and reserved to
his will; to have no plan, connexion, pros
pect or interest, hut under his direction,
and in an immediate and clear subserviency
to his interest. Happy the man who is
brought to this point ! How honourable,
how safe his state ! He is engaged in a
league offensive and defensive with the
Lord of heaven and earth: and in the
midst ol changes and exercises which can
but affect the surface, if 1 may so speak, he
has an abiding peace in the bottom of his
soul, well knowing whose he is, and whom
he serves.”
THOMAS PAINE.
We have read with much pleasure, in a
letter addressed by the Hon. J. Q. Adams,
to several of the citizens of Virginia, the
following incidental notice of the works of
Thomas Paine. The terms here employed
are just though severe. His native talents
were certainly respectable, and his style of
writing was strong, coarse and popular.
But his works possess no redeeming quali
ties, which can rescue them from the indig
nant proscription of every friend of religion
and of true freedom. For whatever may
have been his services during the revolu
tion, we fully agree with the author of
“ Old England,'’ that he has injured the
cause of liberty by his sceptical writings in
a far greater degree than he benefited it
by his political essays. He has contributed j
to identify in the minds of Europeans, the!
defence ol political rights with the disorgau-;
izing doctrines of infidelity. The “ New-1
England Man, - ’ makes some remarks on the :
rigour with which the works of Paine are j
interdicted in England, while those of 801-J
inbroke, Hume, Gibbon, Voltaire, &e. are j
freely circulated ; and he proves, we think i
successfully, that the political principles
ot Paine, rather than his scepticism, have
excited the jealous apprehensions of the
British statesmen. Be this as it may, the
character ot oor country has been injured
by the colour afforded by the works of
Paine for imputing to republican principles
an unhallowed alliance with infidelity. But
it is time to listen to Mr. Adam’s opinion.
Col. Star.
“ As occasional addresses to popular pas
sions, 1 see in all bis works the flashes of a
powerful genius. Acknowledging the ser
vice of his Common Sense and some other
of hts writings during our revolutionary
war, all his subsequent publications a r e
worse than worthless. The two parts of
bis Rights of Man are characteristick of the
same mind, and indicative of the same soul
as the two parts of his Age of Reason, and
all proceeded from the same heart as his
letter to Washington. The latter three of
these pamphlets I amr sure few of you wonld
now read with any other sentiments than
of abhorrence and disgust. They are rap
idly passing into oblivion, and the sooner
they are forgotten, the more propitious
will it be to the cause of virtue. The world
will lose nothing should the two others be
forgotten with them.”
WASHINGTON.
The following anecdote of this revered
patriot was lately related to one of the edi
tors of the N. Y. Statesman, by a respecta
ble Virginia planter, who was for many years
a superintendent upon the General’s farm.
“As an evidence of his punctuality in
attending worship, we are informed that
when at home he used to ride from Mount
Vernon to Alexandria on Sunday morning,
a distance of nine miles. Our host told us
that he once heard Washington preach the
best sermon that he ever listened to. One
of his negroes bad been guilty of theft—he
summoned them together—they formed a
| circle around him, and he addressed them
for an hour, calling them his children and
not his slaves. The criminal was punished
in an exemplary manner, and the rest ad
monished to beware of the example.—
Kindling at the recollection, the narrator
repeated a considerable part of the lecture
which i have not room to record.”
National Bible Society.
The Managers of the American Bible Soci
ety last evening appropriated one thousand
dollars, to be employed in defraying the ex
penses of translating the Scriptures at Se
rampore, and five hundred dollars to be ap
plied to the same purpose in Ceylon.
It is reported that the Rev. Dr. Milnou,
of his city, will shortly visit England, as the
Representative of the American Bible Soci
ety, to be present at Ihe next annual rneet
; ingef Ihe British and Foreign Bible Society.
It is also reported that the Rev. Dr; Adam
Cx.arke, will visit this country in the spring,
j on a similar mission. N. l r . Sped.
Schools in France,—On the Ist of Janua
ry, 1822, in France, 1,070,500 boys, from
5 to 15 years of age were instructed in the
primary schools. There ye 27,500 off
A, ‘ A a.
tto&teechowU ’Nu.Jfei- 20,0*15 muster?. The
flu’mher of girls who attended poblick
schools was estimated at about 500,000.
*
HAMPDEN SIDNEY COLLEGE.
FACULTY.
Jonathan P. Cushing, A. ;M. President, , ll( j
Professor of Chymisii y and Nat. Phil.
Gilbert Morgan, A. M. Tutor of Mathe
ma ticks.
Wm. W. Blauvelt, A. M. Tutor of the Latin
and Greek Languages.
Peter M’Viccar, A. M. Tutor fin College
and Preceptor of the Academy; ”
Number of Students.
Seniors, 14 Freshmen, 43
Juniors, 14 Science Stud. 17
Sophomores,23 Academy, jo
Total, 140.
vm mmmju&'T. *
MOUNT ZION, MONDAY, BT.B. 10, 111*1’”
In our passing remarks we have fre
quently noticed the literary institutions
of our country, and perhaps given,them
more credit than they deserved in compnr
ing them with similar institutions abroad.*
Nor can we deny that we have sometimes
manifested those sectional feelings which
entwine closely nround every thing which
has been undertaken and nurtured among
ourselves. As far as our observation has
extended,we have uniformly found that the
enlightened clfcrgy have ever been the un
wearied advocates of science and literature j
nor do we recollect a solitary instance
where they have opposed, ao a body, any
seminary of learning, where there was not
something rotten in its foundation, or in thte
principles on which it was conducted.
We have been led to these remarks by
the perusal of the report of the committee
relative to the College of South Carolina,
to which there is a statement subjoined by
Dr. Cooper. Ths, committee say, that
“ ‘hey cannot forbear expressing a deep
regret that there should exist in some relig
ious societies an uufriendly feeling towards
, the College, because its government has
| devolved on a layman,” and plead for an
| exemption “ from that sort of persecution
in which narrow bigotry is but too apt to
indulge.” The Doctor, after stating seve
ral causes well known in the history of the
institution as operating to diminish the num
ber of students, gives as the most powerful
obstacle to its prosperity, “ the systematick
hostility ot the clergy generally to any setn,--
inary of education which is not placed un
der their government and control ;” and to
this source he attributes the many calumni
ous reports which have been circulated, in
jurious to its reputation.
The feelings of a community with res
pect to any object of so much importance as
a College, can be discovered without any
very extensive acquaintance in its vicinity.
From various sources we have understood
that the College of South Carolina ha*
been for sometime sinking in the publick
estimation, and however gratifying it may
be to the envious bigot, to us it af
fords unfeigned regret. We regret if,
whether this bias is given to the” publick
sentimeut by erroneous representations, or
whether its decline is owing to causes which
deservedly operate in prostrating any in
stitution. The fact existed, and in the ap
pointment of ihe committee it i3 presumed
it so existed a9 to call loudly for legislative
interference. There was at least, if not a
full, an implied expectation, that this Com
mittee would investigate the causes which
have operated against the College, with a
view towards 9ome effective measures to
restore it to the standing which it once abs
tained. Whether this committee founded
their report upon any other data than were
furnished them by the officers of the
College, we have not yet been informed.—
They have, however, discovered that its
declension has been owing to the persecu
tion of “ some religious societies and Dr.
Cooper, with a still broader clause, has at
tributed it to the clergy generally, as being
the source of many calumnious reports injuri
ous to its reputation.
We hope that no censure will devolve on
us, if we should just inquire whether an op
position to tbe College exists, as repre
sented in the Report, and if it do exist,.
what is the cause ? If some religions socie
ties have manifested unfriendly feelings to
wards the College, which are they ? If
the clergy are generally hostile to if, in
what convention, or by what ecclesiastical
act have they expressed it ? Or is there a
secret understanding between all of differ
ent denominations, to break down this in
stitution by calumny and misrepiesentrttioD,
and, forsooth, for no other reason than be
cause it is under the government of a layman?
We had not believed before. that the clergy
ofSouth Carolina were half as formidable
as they are here represented. But all this
appears to us like the cry of penseeirtion and
intolerance , which it has Laconic so fashion
able of lutQ lo apply to fevery matt