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Show Vi RECOMMENDATIONS. RECOMMENDATIONS. valuable. No person can read it without some benefit, un— less his heart be strangely perverted.” ‘‘ One of the im- gether their wise men, who pressions which this their They spent their religion, its origin and work awful guilt and danger is calculated to make contracted by a rejection Christ as our atoning Saviour. This is, the of Jesus would we see in the terri- When this people was the. pub- are cannot well be doubted the When by any one, who has become ac- I first came among of obtaining years ago. taught them many all the account they could give. ‘¢ So our fathers worshipped the Great Spirit!’ yogs. After | read Dr. to understand rites, rather than and reform receive Christianity. offering. human body are considered which time they are excluded observe with blankets - with- for incense, with fre taken dead All who have unclean seen eight days ; from the their separations a congregation. of femaleIs, 1 remain yours in the bonds of the Gos el, | again attended their religious ceremonies, to see if1 could In 1818, a general rediscern what he had represented. They the Senecas. among d ligious excitement commence attempted call themselves, Hung- as you notice of other Indians in your book, 3 hese Indians are well acquainted, that formerly places like cit ies of reAn old chief showed me fuge existed among them. the boundaries of one of them. I could fill sheets with details but it would be unnecessary. This was in the West,’ They of stone before a tent covered These Senecas I neglected their meet- Boudinot’s ° Star ‘This was the commence» Their feasts-of first fruits ; feasts of ing atbering ; day of atonement; peace offerings :; sacrifices. They build an from the altar of burnt All the informaformation concerning their ceremonies. was, that all rer interprete their tion I could obtain from lated to things their fathers in darkness. in the tent they burn tobacco me to all their celebrations. : For some time (when | could make it convenient) I attended, in hopes They became dis- is certainly a most striking similitude to the Mosaic ritu “ils. altar them, tbe chiefs invited In- and Hal-le-lu-yah, as Dr. Bou- gwa-0-way at e. the real people. . Iu all their rites which [ have learned from them. there quainted with the religious ceremonies of the Indians, but that they have a manifest shadow of the Mosaic rituals. Most of the particulars you have mentioned in your book, I know to be facts; and were observed. by the Seneca Indians. dark- of God ; but that they have lost their way; and are bewildered It of Israel. words, Y-O-He-Wah, people of your book, that outcasts in any thing 1s found in our scriptures similar to their religion. They have been firmly persuaded that they are the Evxiract ofa letter from the Rev. Jabez B. Hyde of Eden, Erie county, N. Y. dated Feb. 4, 1825, after having read the first edition of thas the natives of our country involved unreserved account of all they know of their ancient religion. Their wish has been to obtain information whether a collection of facts and details, as is presented by our author, must secure for his book an unusual degree of popujarity.”"—[Christian Advocate, published at Saratoga, N. Y.| in the sentiment investigate ment of Christianity among the Senecas. This in its progress brought tn two who had officiated as high priests in their religious ceremonies. With these 1 have had frequent opportunities. They have given me, I believe, an ‘‘ Certainly, if we may judge from our own feelings, such ‘‘T have long been to what it taught, and to what it themselves God, to throw light on their path. hshed in Boston.| apork. found time satished with their old rites, and consented that they would take the book which the white people call the word of rejected from Watchman, blessings of grace.”’—[Christian They best acquainted with much dinot has represented of other Indicns. spiritual privileges, we were graciously received ; and our duty now is, by every practicable method, to persuade them to renounce their unbelief, and participate with us tn the rich avail. were ness. Of the meaning of words they used in their dances, and divine songs, they were wholly ignorant. They used ble destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and in the dreadful slaughter and dispersion of the Jews. Another is, the weight of obligation which now rests on Gentile Christians, and eminently on American Christians to extend the gospel to the Jews. mysteries. vil their old religious This brought to- Rev. Eraaw Sauirnu. JABEZ B. HYDE. |
