Letters on the Chickasaw and Osage MissionsT. R. Marvin, 1833 - 169 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Σελίδα 2 - DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the...
Σελίδα 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies o.
Σελίδα 145 - ... benighted minds. After talking awhile, at their request I sang a hymn of my own composing in their language, relative to the omniscience and omnipresence of God, as Judge of the world, and with respect to the future state of the righteous and the wicked. But what made the scene peculiarly pleasant was the fixed attention of two children between nine and twelve years old, who came from the other end of the lodge, and drawing close to me, listened with great interest, and seemed to understand and...
Σελίδα 144 - I never felt myself more at home among the Osages than at present: I never had more of their confidence; and, indeed, never had higher hopes of eventual suci.
Σελίδα 134 - stand and pray, first to the east, then to the west, then to the north, and then to the south, as though God was in one direction or the other.
Σελίδα 148 - At an old town on the Missouri ; we shall have bodies as here; it will be good hunting ground ; there will be plenty of game ; we shall go to war as we do now. Different nations will go to different places.
Σελίδα 146 - Nerf, a man about 60 years old, who had been acquainted with white men about 40 years; and who had visited St. Louis and the city of New York, and in both those places had been told something respecting the God of Christians. Before that time what did you hear about God? "I have formerly been taught to consider the sun, the moon, the earth, and the sky to be the principal gods.
Σελίδα 145 - ... fully made, under circumstances calculated to inspire them with a belief of its truth. Two evenings since, I went into a lodge for the special purpose, as I often do, of trying to communicate something in order to enlighten their benighted minds. After talking awhile, at their request I sang a hymn of my own composing in their language, relative to the omniscience and omnipresence of God, as Judge of the world, and with respect to the future state of the righteous and the wicked. But what made...
Σελίδα 145 - ... them, in the inward comfort and peace they are permitted to enjoy. It is no uncommon thing now to hear this people when they smoke, call upon God to give them good thoughts, and lead them in the right hand path, instead of asking for success in killing Pawnees and stealing horses: not that they have laid those aside, but it shows that what is said to them is taking root, and is conversed about.