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Hfrom the U. Stags’ vjathnlictc Micetl*ny, dept. 1.
TtlK MISSIONARY.
I Idolatrv—We have seen iu our last that
|lbe difference between the doctrines and
j practices ol Roman Catholicks and Hea
Rheus and idolatrous Jev consisted I, in the
(belief aod worship of only one God by the
Conner and the latter being Polytheists, or,
Iworshippers of many Gods. 2. In the
PCaUiolicks consid'Ti 4 their images to bej
tmere representations of some determined
| objects, to the knowledge and contempt*
lion and service of which objects the mind
Was brought by mean* of the image, vvhil-t
idolaters considered some divinity as resi
diog in or united to the idol, and therefore
served the idol itself. And 3 Jn the Cath
oltck confining bi adoration to the only and
true God who made the Heavens and the
earth, whilst the Idolaters worshipped dev
ils and not God.
We next proceed to ascertain whvti-the
•difference between an image and an idol
:fto image is the likeness of something which
exists, or which has existed. Thusimage
of men are likenesses of those men. An
image of a Chetub is a likeness of a Cher
11b or o ( what was shown a a model of the
image, and like to which it was to tie made.
Tii is the statue ot Gen. Washington is an
image, it i< not an idol. Thus the figure of
I the Cherubim a! the mercy seat were ima
ge, not idols. What then is an idol? I; is
a figure made 10 represent s:ne false deity,
and generally speaking in which that Deity
is supposed 10 reside It is not the repre
seniati m of any thing or person actually
existing, or which did actually exist as a
D,-iy. Suppose Jupiter to have been a
single individual human being, and that an
image was made to represent the man, this
would no! bo an idol, it could have been
nude and erected without any criminality,
n >vo tins day make and erect stalnes or
image* ot great men, as we. make family
busts, or statues, or pictures. But let some
person imagine Jupiter to be a God—h<
ill)aglofis a lie ; let him suppose some allviii
ify to reside IQ that statue, he supposes a
falsehood; let him adore the stamp, here
is double idolatry, and the s(atue is to him
an id I. Thus whal was once an useful
image may by change of circumstances be
come a dangerous idol.
Nc.virers xxi. 8. Anil the Lord said unto Mo
t ses, make tin e a tier} serpent, and set it upon a
I pop* * Vod it shall Home (o pass, lhat every out
I that .s tuft* n, when be h.nketh upon it, shall live.
| 9 lint Moses made a serpent of brass, and put
I it upon a pole, and it ‘ante to pas that if a ser
■ pent had bitten any man, when he beheld the ser
| pent of brass he lived.
There can be no question hut thisbruz-m
■ ’range which God commanded Muses to
■ make, was lawfully’ made, and was useful,
■ nod was nol an idol. That it afterwards
■ became an idol we have evidence: speak
ling of the goof king Ezechns or Hezektah
lin the IV. of Kings Cu'hol’ck version, bo!
I Protestant version we read
IT. Kings, xviii. 4. Ele removed the high places,
■ and broke the images, (it ought to b idols) ami
■ cut and hvii the gtoves, and broke in piece - the bra
■ ze.i .erpent that doses had made : for unto those
■ days the children of Israel did burn incense to it.
The burning of incense to any person or
Ith'ng except 10 (he L>r I tn the Temple
■ was specially forbidden nnd a P pain of dea 1 b.
K suEvery image then 1* not an idol. An
liaol is toe figure made to represent an ima
iginarv or false deity. Thus .he Prophet
I Hars c. vit. v. 3, calls them •• lies” in v. 1.
|“ for ! hey commit falsehood.” Habhackuck
111 13 “ the molten image, and a teacher
■of <ies.” Titus St. Paul 1 Gon. viii. v. 4,
Isavs ‘.*.-e know Ihit an id >1 is noihirig m
■ the world, and that there is none other G . 1
one. 5. F->r though there lie that m
■Ca’l-d G ids, &.• ” Having 11 iw seen the
■distinction between an im.g-- and an idol,
■we -ay, there can be no doubt but that even
Bjv 1a ft lav of nature, it is a high crime io
■pk ‘, or to keep, or to s-’rve an id 1
HTh're is untiling in !he lew of nafUr- f.
B>rav-u ( our m ik'og images. But should an
flEmag- become an idol it ought then to t> -
>®e-'roy ed
IS OtK next inquiry i’ to ascertain whether
Sp° l prohibit’d •he m iking of images. O.i
fftorult-iey most he inevitable. If God pm
jU>ibitml the making of images every slatoa
B.V is criminal. But thi* consequence rnus;
H 1 stand m our way if we can find such a
■aw.
[ The erraon *ays the second command-
Mbeot i< j, prohibnion (hereof, and that th’
s||ext ivhicti ii prefixes j< a distinct prehitii
HlO.l also. We must take each pan S j pa
jfptely, for though they appear to mean a
general prohibition, we shall soon she-v
*{£!**t they are both only special, and very
Htmited. an t perhaps io *ntnp degree only
temporary. We shali first take what is
■ tea bed *he second commandment.
Exod. xx. 4. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven ini.. re, or anv likeness of anything
that is io heaven above, or that is in the earth be
mealli, >r that is in the water under the earth.
6&. 5 rhi'ii shall not bow down thyself to them,
ilor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a
Jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fatheri
. Up in the children unto the third and fourth gene -
Wrahous of them that hate me.
I 6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them
Hhat love me and keep my commandmeuts.
Calhohc Version.
■ Exon xx. 4. t hou h dt n-.t make to thyself a
■graven thing, nor Hie likeness of any thing that is
the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, uor
TH li MISSIONARY.
of those things that are in the waters under the
earth.
5. Thou shall not adore them, nor serve them:
I am the Lord thyGod.mighty.j-alons,visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children.unto the
third and fourth generations of them that hate me.
6 And shewing mercy uti'o thousands to them
that love me and keep my commandments.
1 We shall here remark upon the differ
ence of translating. to the
SPdbt’estant ver-tun tfie’Wiking of a graven
image would appear to be prohibited. Ac
cording to thq Oatholick translation, the
making of a graven thing ;>uly. WhrtLis
’h* difference? Precisely what we market}
before. An image is the likeness of some
thing. An idol is an imagination it is not
tne likeness of any thing.
Taking the Calholick version we shall
• hew this law to be consistent with the facts
>n record in the sacred volume, and not to
be a prohibition of making images. Grav
en thing is an idol , (he indefinite word thing
eing ii-ed to express that figure which wn*
not au image for it had no prototype.
This forlnd- the tnikmg of idols. Next is
, irbid len the making of likenesses, that is
of images of tilings which do exist in the
Heavens, on earih, or in the sea. Did the
prohibitory clause rest here, we allow that
anew law had been made against image
making, and therefore that every statuary
wouM lie a criminal, a man could not even
■ngrave the likeness of a bird of a fish of an
ox of a fr uit without crime, hut the same
prohibitory clause continues to sav they shall
not be adored Now if the first was abso
finely prohibitory, ‘his part prohibiting ad
(•ration would never have been given : for
whatcoiilJ.be adored unless it had been
n ide, and if it was prohibited to make an
image, the person who made it was already
a criminal. We say then the meaning is
plainly this: “ you shall not make an idol,
nor shall you make an image to adore it,
for you deprive me of ray honour, and c m
ver! the image into an idol when yon ndor
it, or when you engage yourself in its ser
vice!” That is, we say it is the fill expia
nation n( v. 3, “‘ Thou shah have no other
Gods before me,” which would be done to
either of two way-, viz. by setting up for
yourself idols, as the Egyptians and ihesur
roondimr nations do : or by paying adora
tion and service which are due to me only,
to images or likenesses of things which ex
i*t. This is the explanation of our church
which forbids Idolatry and Polytheism, lit)
per/ni's images.
Now let ns suppose the making of ima
ge- to be prtjhihi'ed, we shall iiave Ged
contradicting himself, for the following sir<-
passages of the Holy Bible.
Exon xxv. 1. AND the Lord spake unto Mo
ses. faying,
17. And tliou shalt make a mercy seat of pure
gold: two cubi.s and a hah’ shall be the length
thereof, and a cubit ami a half the breadth
thereof.
18. An I thou shall ‘make twocherubim of gold,
yhea;e,i work shalt thou make them, in the two
ends of the mercy seat.
19. And make one chernh on the one end, and
the other cherub on the other end : even of the
n> rcy-seat 5h.,11 ye make the cherubim on the
two ends thereof.
20 And the cherubim shall stretch forth their
wings on high, covering t!”- mercy-seat with their
wings, and ‘h-ir faces shall look one to another:
tow ird the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cher
ubim be.
Phis was certainly making the likeness
of thing- in Heaven, and image making by
‘h- command otGod. who w ar* to!,I prohib
ited it as idolatr us N"W we -hill see ima
ges of fl overs and fruit and things on earth
made by the ame authority
31 And thou “halt make a candlestick o/"pure
gold ; of beaten work shalt th*- candlestick he
made: hi- shaft, mi I his branches, h - bowls, his
knops. and his (]■••. ,-rs sh ill be of the same.
33. Three howls shall he made like unto al
mond*. with a lcnop and a flower, in one branch,
34 And in tl,p cand estick shall be four bowls
made like onto almonds, Ac.
\Ve next find images of fruit upon the
High Pr est's dress :
Exod xxviii. 33. And beneath upon the hem
of it thou shalt make pomegranates of bine and 0/
purple, and of scarlet round about the hem there
of : and bells of gold liet ween them round about.
34. A golden b-ll and a pomegranate, a golden
bell ami a pomegianate upon the hem of the robe
round about.
See what a command was given by the
Lord. In Moses in Nom XXI to make an
im-ig J of a brazen serpent. Are we then
(D say that he forbids and that he commands
the same thing to the same people, at the
very ame fime? Perhaps our friend the
preacher, would be at some loss ‘‘to ac
count for the con-i-tency” of the Lord God
of Israel filling with his presence a “ church
filled with images” of which we shall give
a very brief enumeration taken from his
own Bib’e I Kings, yet so it is that the
word of God, informs us that the house was
filled with images and that God vouchsafed
to fill it with his presence after the Mission
ary and Calvin from vvhoe Institutes he
ha j condensed his -erm m would tell u-,
God prohibited the m king of images and
the filling up of churches therp with.
I Kftics, VI. 18. And the cedar of (lie house
witlmi was carved with knops and open flowets,
lea.
23 And within the oracle he made two clieru- ’
biui (if olive tr**e, each lei, cubits high.
24. And five cubits was the one wing of the 1
cherub and five cubits the other wing of the che-I
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rub, from the uttermost part of the oue wing unto
the uttermost part of the other.werc ten cubits.
25. And the other cherub was ten cubits: both
the cherubim were of one measure and size.
26. The height of one cherub was ten cubits,
and so was it of the other cherub.
27. And he set the cherubim within the innet
house; and they stretched forth the wings of the
cherubim, so that the wing of the one touched
the one wall & the wing of the other cherub touch
ed the other wall; and their wings touched one
another in the midst of the house.
28. And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29. And lie covered all the walls of the house
4ound about with carved figures of cherubim and
‘aim trees arid open flowers, within and without.
32 The two doors also were of olive tree ; and
he carved upon them curving- of cherubim and
paliu trees and open flowers; and outlaid them
with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim
and upon the palm trees.
35. And he carved thereon cherubim, and palm
trees and open flowers; and covered them with
gold fitted upon the carved work.
Chap. vii. 18 And he made the pillars, and two
rows round about upon the one net work, to cov
er the chapiters that were upon the top with pome
granates.
22. And upon the top of the pillars was lily
work, tic.
23. And he made a molten sea ten cubits from
one brim to the other ; it was round all about,and
his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cu
bits did cotupa.-s it round about. *
25. It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking
towards the north, and three looking towards the
west, and three looking towards the south, and
three looking towards the east: and the sea rear
set above upon them, and all their hinder parts
were inward.
26. And it was an hand breadth thick, and the
brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup,
with flowers and lilies, &c.
29. And on the borders that were between the
edges were lions, oxen and cherubim, & 0.
36. For on the plates of (lie ledges thereof, and
on the borders (hereof, he graved cherubim, lions
and palm trees, &c.
Now we doubt if any where, ottr squeam
ish friend could find a Roman Calholick
Church, better furnished with the like
msses of things in heaven and in earth,
graven and molten and beaten, in all vari*
y of workmanship, yet were all those ima
ges made by the regulation of God himself,
•vho upon the dedication of the church,
which was filled with them vouchsafed to
fill it with hi presence, and told him who
dedicated this house filled with image-.
Chap. IX. V. 3. ,! have hallowed this house,
which thou hast built, to put my name there for
ever : arid mine eyes and mine heart shall be
there perpetually.
‘Ve beg leave then to inform the preach
er, that although the law of tutfure and the
law of revelation did distiuedy prohibit
idolatry, they did both permit the making
ot images, and God himself did specially
command Moses to makp them and to place
them in the most holy part of the place of
publick worship, and did through the in
strumentality of one image confer upon hi
people the greatest bcnefils, although he
foresaw that in alter ago* 1 hat -ame image
of a serpent would become an Idol, and be
destroyed by a good king, slii! the possibili
ty of a remote and contingent evil wh'ch
could be remedied when it should exist, did
not prevent his commanding the image to
be made. We alo find that in the days of
Solomon he filled with his presence a hou-e
of worship, filled with images.
We now come to consider the preacher’s
‘••xt, upon which he remarks.
Deul.lV. 15. Take therefore good liped unto
yourselves; for ye saw no inarmer of similitude
on the day that the Lord spoke to you iu Iloreb
oat of the midst of the Are :
16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you
a grauui image, the similitude of any figure the
lik> ness of male or female, See.
“ If this passage of Divine Revelation possesses
any authority, and is enforced by any reasoning,
we are unable to account for the consistency of
those who fill theirchurches with images.”
IV-iw we say, that passage does possess
• hit full force of God’s authoritative com
mand delivered by the mouth of Mose, to
‘he people of Drael, and that the reasoning
i- conclusive. But we must have the hi
tire passage fairly hefore us to know the
extent ot the prohibition and to see the full
force of the reasoning. We shall therefore
give the succeeding portion of the scrip
1 tore.
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the
earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth
in the air.
18. The likeness of any thing that creepeth on
the ground, the likenes- of any fish that is in the j
waters beneath the earth :
19. And lest thou lift up thy eyes unto heaven,
and when thou seest Die sun and moon, and the
stars, even all the host of heaven shouhlest be dri- |
ven to worship them, and serve them, which the
Lord thy God hath divided unto all the nations
under the whole heaven.
Now we have the whole sentence before
U, and its meaning and reasoning are obvi
ously—“You saw no figure of God at H i
reb that you may be convinced of his spirt
toal nature, and to guard you against ima
gluing that he is like those forms of mal?-
or females, of beasts or fi-hes, or such lik •
as are used amongst nations for Gods, not
the sun nor moon. The object was to
guard you against idolatry, lest making orh
a likeness you might be brought to worship
or to serve it. You are therefore com
manded not to make any representation ot I
G id, for you saw no model.” The reason !
mg 1* good, the command is clear. But the ‘
cumaiattd is special, “ Do not make any fig !
ore to represent God.” Bpyond that, the !
command does not extend, nor would the’
reasoning extend farther. You saw uoi
likeness, aod because you saw do likeness, <
! you’ shall touke no representation This
i leaves them a! full liberty to make a like
i ness of any thing they saw. They might i
| make images 01 what they -aw, hot having
seen no likeness of God, they could make I
!no representation of God. Thus as we |
jretna'ked this command is restricted to j
! very narrow limits, and is not a prohibition j
of image makti.g It it was a general pro |
hihition, Moses vvoulti hitve been a violator,
Svlontni in the very act tor which God spe
cially approves and reward* him would
have be-n a violator. Bi za'eel and Aholt
ah, and tvery wise hearted mao, in whom
the Lour pul wisdom and understanding to
know how to work all manner of work for
the service of the sanctuary, according to
ad that the Lord had commanded, Fxod.
xxxvt were transgressors, and the Lord
himself was the instigator to the violation
of his own precept. But ,f Dbe lawful to
tn-tke images, though forbidden to make
idols; It it be lawful to make images but
not an image of the. Deity, then neither of
• hose porous did wrong; Roman Catho
licks do not wrong, and God did not com
•hand contradictions; every word of the sa
cred volume remains in full force, and Ro
man Cathnlicks are not Idolaters.
Every intelligent Protestant on his first entering
a Calholick Church and witnessing Die devotion
of the people, must feel shocked, if. ftt nothing
else, at their prostrations before images.
Has the preacher ever been in a Roman
Calfiol ck Church? Did he ever see the
people prostrate before art image? To say
the very most we can in his favour, the
preacher made a very serious mistake.
We now come to the conclusion of this
tedious, anil we did once hope unnecessary
examination. Roman Catholicks do make
imtiges of Jestis Chri“t, God the Son, but
they only make the similitude “f what was
seen, a human body, in which the fulness of
the divinity did dwell, neither the reason
ing nor the enactment prohibits this. This
is an image not an idol. They also mak
images of a dive, to signify (he Holy
Ghost, who otic e assumed that form, here
they had a similitude.
John i. 32. And John bare record, saying, 1
saw the spirit descending from Heaven likt a
’ dove, mid it abode upou him.
Matt. iii. 16. And Io ! the heavens were open
unto him, and he saw the spirit of God descend
ing like a dove, and lightine upon him.
•Mark i. 10. And he saw the heavens opened,
and the spirit like a dove descending upou him.
Lukk ii. 22. And the Holy Gho-t descended
in a bodily shape like a dove upon him.
VVe stated tha’ the commandment in Deu
teronomy was given only to the Jewish
people, and we now add only under (he pe
ctiliar circumstances in which they were
placed, coming out from an idolatrous na
tion, in the idolatry of which they had fre
quently joined, to which they were still
prone, and going into the mid*t of ob
situate idolaters, who had rnoro'ih.in once
seduced them to sin. We shall shew seve
ral facts which are exceptions to the rea
sorting principle found in the precept ‘you
saw no similitude.’
Genesis iii. 23. So he drove out the man, and
he placed at the east of the garden of F.den
Cherubim, and a flaming -word which turned ev
ery way to keep the way of the tree of life.
Many commentators state, but this i only
an opinion, that Adam saw God, if so, he
must hare seen a similitude.
Gen. xii. 7. And the Lord appeared onto
Abram, xvii. and when Abram was ninety years
old and nine, the Loud appeared to Abraham,
xviii. And the Lord appeared unto him in the
plains of Mamre; and he sat at the tent door in
the heat of the day ; 2. and he lifted up his eyes
and looked, and 10. three men stood by him, &c.
20. And the Lord said, because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is
very grievous. 21. 1 will now go down and
see. &o.
22. And the men turned their faces from
tlii nee, and went towards Sodom : but Abraham
stood yet before the Lord
33. And the Lord went I • way, as soon as he
had left communing with Ahraham.
xix. And there came two Angels to Sodom at
even ; and Lot sat in the gale of Sodom, and
seeing thrrn rose up to meet them ; and he bow
eel himself with his face towards the ground.
xxti. 2. And the lord appeared unto him,
(Isaac,) and said go not down into Egypt.
24. And the Lord appeared unto him the
same night, and said, I am the God of thy father
1 Ahraham, &c.
xxviii. 12. Ayid he dimmed, and behold a lad
der set up on file earth, and the top of it reached
Heaven ; and behold the angels of God ascending
| arid descending on it.
13 And behold th Lord stood above it and
said, i aui the Lord God of Abraham, Ac.
We shall omit iruinv others, and select a
very few passages t shew that subsequent
!y. ms well a previous to thi- special and
particular precept God did manifest himself
in a similitude.
I Kings al 111 Kings xxii. 19. Hear thou
therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord
sitting on hi* throne, and all the hoit of heaven 1
standing by him on his right hand and on lii* lelt. I
20. And the Lord -aid, who shall per-j
made Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ra- j
moth Gilead, and one said on this manner, and :
another on that manner.
21 Am! there crme forth a spirit, and stood
hef'-re the Lord - nd *aid, I will persuade him. Ac.
Lajau vi. In D.fc year Dial king Uzziah died 1 ‘
saw also the Lord sitting upon a tic ne, high, j
and lifted up. and I is tn in filled 11 . temple.
2. Above it stood tin Seraphim: vm-h one had j
six wing-, with twain he covered his face, and !
with twain he covered his feet, and with twain
did be fly.
3. And obv tried unto another, and suid, Holy, 1
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holy, holy, is the Lord God of hosts; the whole
earth i full of Lis glory.
Ezekiel 1. The heavens were opened, and I
saw th. visions of God.
26. And above the firmament that was over
then he ad tear the likeness as the appearance of a
man above upon it.
27. And 1 saw as the colour of amber as the
appearance of fire round about within it, from the
appearance of his loins even upward, and from the
appearanceof his loins even downward, I saw as
it were the appearance of fire, and it had bright
ness round about.
58. As tin- appearance of the bow that isin
the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appear
ance of the brightness round about This was
the appearance of the hk, iie*s. of the glory of the
Lord. And when I saw it 1 fell upou my face,
and I heard the voice o! one that spake.
Daniel vii. 9. 1 beheld til’ the thrones were
cast down, and the ancient of days did -it, whose
gr scents were white as snow, and the h„ r c f his
head like the pure wool: his throne was like the
fiery flames, and his wheels as burning fire.
10. A fiery stream issued and came forth from
before liim : thousands and thousands ministered
unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him : the judgerneut was set, and the
books were opened.
13. I saw in the night visions, and behold, one
likt the son of man came with the clouds of hea
ven, and came to rhe ancient of days, and they
brought him near before him.
14 And there was given to him dominion and
glory, and a kingdom, that ail people, rial ions
and languages should serve hint: his dominion is
an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass
away, and his kingdom that which shall not be de
stroyed.
Amos vii. 7. Thus be shewed me: and behold
the Lord stood upon a wall made by plumbliue,
and a plumbliue in his hand,
Homan C atbolicks do nol believr* that
they can, by any likeness, express the na
ture or figure ol (he God whom alone they
adore They know that from special cir
cumstances special laws were given lo the
Israelites, the obligation of the law ceased
wi(h the circumstances which made if neces
sary. The law of Denteronomv quoted in
(be (ext was one of thi- description; nei
iber the reason nor the circumstences which
once required ils enactment now exist. It
never had the extent which the preach
er would give it. Ids always unlawful to
moke or to retain idols. It is not un
lawful to have images in churches.
An image which had been useful may
become injurious, it then ought to be
removed; there is nothing ol divinity or
*arclity in the image, but there is a degree
oi publick decency to be observed, and a
degree of private feeling which it is lawful
to indulge. What the Roman Calholick
church permits and requires for her in.ages
does not exrpfd what the statute law of
North Carolina permits and requires for
the statue of General Washington. This
slate is pot (dolalrous.
MISSIONARY.
CHICKASAW MISSION.
The various accounts which have been
received from this atijjion indicate its pros
perous condition. The prudence and rare
of ilip Superintendent and assistants have
effected much more than could have, been
expected iu so short a period. And when
we consider how contracted have been the
means of supporting this mission, and how
few pprsons the Synodical Society have
been enabled to procure as member* of the
mission family, it is a matter of surprise to
the friends of Zion, that so much success has
followed (heir labours.
The incieasing demands of (be Indians
had induced the Society to form another
locai school in the neighbourhood; for
which preparations have been made, and
which must now be ready to go into opera
tion. ,
The mission has, however, had its pecul
taliar diffh iilfie* as well as other establish
ments of a similar nature. These difficul
ties have chiefly arisen from two causes—
the went of an adequate number of assis
tants at the station, and the deficiency of
pecuniary mean*—without which none of
the benevolent operations of the day can
proceed The former of these, is hoped,
will now he removed The Correspond
ing Secretary (Rev. Dr. Henry) has re
ceived some communications which lead lo
a Lope that suitable pet sons may he engag
ed to fill the vacancies. If this hope be
reilised they will he immediately employ
ed.
The second difficulty is ol a more serious
character. During ‘he first years of this
inlan’ establishment (he support of the mis
sion. which had been derived from the
liberality of the benevolent, was sufficient,
to supply the pressing wants of the station.
Last year ihe additional aid of Governirmt
encouraged the expectations of the Society.
And, on a suggestion being made to the
Sym and, it was resolved to comply with the
earnest request of the Indians, and to es
tablish one or two local‘chool*. This de
termination was predicated on Ihe slate of
Ihe treasury, as it then wn\ and -u the ex
pectation that the liberality of the relig
ion* publick would not, ;.t least, he less than
in formed years. Unhappily ‘bis expecta
tion ha* faflpd. It 1* feared ‘hat the <lcoa
s'inns have hr en from a third lo a half le
Than in any previous year, while the necci
sary expendi.ure* have been great. Yet
the society is pledged. They amst redeem
that pledge. To ‘his stair mem it ix a mel
ancholy addition to say, that iu ccusequ’ nee
of the arrangements made, aud in coiue-