Conversations on the Choctaw Mission, Τόμοι 1-2

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T.R. Marvin, 1830

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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...
Σελίδα 69 - Like the beams of morning fly; Take the wonder-working rod, Wave the banner-cross on high. 2 Where the lofty minaret Gleams along the morning skies, Wave it till the crescent set, And the " Star of Jacob
Σελίδα 59 - Lonely, I no longer roam, Like the cloud, the wind, the wave ; Where you dwell shall be my home, Where you die shall be my grave. Mine the God whom you adore, Your Redeemer shall be mine ; Earth can fill my soul no more, Every idol I resign.
Σελίδα 69 - Hymn. 1 WITH my substance I will honor My Redeemer and my Lord ; Were ten thousand worlds my manor, All were nothing to his word. 2 While the heralds of salvation His abounding grace proclaim, Let his friends, of every station, Gladly join to spread his fame.
Σελίδα 57 - They spoke very lightly of their privations, and of the trials which the world supposes to be their greatest ; sensible, as they said, that these are often experienced, in at least as great a degree, by the soldier, the sailor, or even the merchant. Yet, in this country, these trials are by no means trifling. Lying out, for two or three months, in the woods, with their little babes — in tents which cannot resist the rain, here falling in torrents such as I never saw in England — within sound...
Σελίδα 81 - At present, however, it seems to be the will of our ever to be adored Lord and Master, that the anticipation, so fondly entertained, should not be realized. I bow to his sovereign pleasure, always good — infinitely good. Still my heart melts with longing, with tenderness towards that consecrated spot...
Σελίδα 56 - A log cabin, detached from the other wooden buildings, in the middle of a boundless forest, in an Indian country, consecrated, if I may be allowed the expression, by standing on missionary ground, and by forming at once the dormitory and the sanctuary of a man of God; it seemed to be indeed the prophets' chamber, with the "bed and the table, the stool and the candlestick.
Σελίδα 81 - And when our labors and trials on earth shall be finished, in his infinite mercy may we meet in his presence above, and rejoice in his glory forever.
Σελίδα 25 - I have made is, that when my warriors go over the line among the white people, and buy whiskey, and bring it into the nation to buy up the blankets, and guns, and horses of the red people, and get them drunk; the whiskey is to be destroyed. The whiskey drinking is wholly stopt among my warriors.
Σελίδα 2 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...

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