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Show THE PRESENT STATE OF He goes on to speak of its rising to the ter.’ skies, ‘The Chickasaws came from the west,’’ he says.-‘The world is tobe burned, or turned upside down; it is generally thought it will be burned.” xxiv. 1—6) mously ‘ A certain description of wicked, will be burned roll in fire; yet cannot die.’’? withit. (See Isa. persons infa- ‘hey will ‘There are to be oth- er sigus before the end of the world; such as great shaking of the earth, &c.’? ‘This old Indian adds; ** It has been said by old Indians that before that event should take place, (ihe burning of the world) the Indians and whites would mix, so that the tribes would be confused and lost, and not know to what nation they : formerly belonged.”’ Indian in trash, of ce abundan among that It appears traditions, there are running through them some things which must have been transmitted f om the Hebrew | | Scriptures. to viThis old Indian has promised the missionaries tratheir of more them to rejate sit them again, and . ditions. In Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains, we learn that the Omawhaw tribe of Indians (who inhabit the west side of the Missouri River, fifty miles above Engineer Cantonment.) believe in one God. They call him Wahconda; and believe him to be the greatest and best of beings ; the Creator and Preserver of all things; the Fountain of mystic medicine.” Omniscience, om- nipresence, and vast power are attributed to him.— povAnd he is supposed to afflict them with sickness, converIn deeds. evil erty, or misfortune, for their ce of sation he 1s frequently appealed t o as an eviden hears da con the truth of their asservations— ‘© Wah what I say.”’ this These Indi ans have many wild pagan notions of tion, Butthey have brought down by tradi one God. Vouty corre7ct view of him, 1 it seems, the al yove essentiall : opposition to the polytheistical world. _ M Ther name of God Is remarkable—Wahconda. Go call s Indian has been shown that various of the JUDAH Sacred rites. ISRAEL. Yohewah, Ale, Yah, and Wah, doubtless from the He- brew names shown that these syllables which compose the name of Jehovah, Ale, Jah. And it has been God, are compounded in many Indian words, or form. the roots from which they are formed. Here we find the fact ; while the author from whom the account is taken, it is presumed, had no perception of any such thing. Wah-conda; the last syllable of the Indian Yohewah,' compounded with conda. Or Jah, Wah their monosyllable name of God thus compounded.— Here is evidence among those children of the desert both as to the nature and the name of their one God. corresponding with what has been exhibited of ether tribes. A religious custom, related by Mr. Long, goes ta corroborate the opinion that these people are of Israel. He relates that from the age of between five and ten years, their little sons are obliged to ascend a hill fasting, once or twice a week during the months of March and April, to pray aloud to Wahconda. When this season of the year arrives, the mother informs the httle son, that the “ice is breaking up in the river; the ducks and geese are migrating, and it is time for you to prepare to goin clay.” The little worshipper then rubs himself over with whitish clay, and at sun rise sets off for the top of a hill, instructed by the mother what to say to the Master of Life. From his elevated position he cries aloud to Wahconda, humming a melancholy tune, and calling on him to have pity on him and make him a great hunter, warrior, &c. Chis has more the Hebrew appearance of descending from tradition, than from any other nation on earth : teaching their children to fast in clay, as ‘in dust and ashes ;’ and to cry to Jah for pity and protection.— Such are the shreds of evidence furnished, one here and another there, through the wilds of America, sugsesting what is ‘he most probable, if not evident origin of the natives of this continent. " In the Percy Anecdotes, we have an accou Shawano Indians in an excursion captured nt that the the Indian 14* * AND |