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Show f FHE PRESENT OF JUDAH AND ISRAFL,. STATE Eve of the Nootkians, who lived solitary in a flowery the shafts of the golden candlesticks ; and on the hem grove of Yucuati—” Here is a traditional peculiarity of Israel ;—the origin in the same person of civil and. The struggles of the good | ecclesiastical government. ud bad princivle seems very congenial to ancient revelation. ‘The mother of all men.— Eve in of the high 10n of the North oe ts and harmiessness of the primitive state of men and Our noted author says; ** The Mexicans have beasts. preserved a particular relish for painting, and for the We are astonished at art of carving in wood or stone. what they are able to execute with a bad knife on the They are peculiarly fond of painting hardest wood. This art of entwimented with odoriferous flowers. ning fruits and flowers had its origin perbaps 1 — happy period when, long before the human we - introduction rites, the first inhabitants of Anahuac, like ee nt Peruvians, offered up to the Great Spirit the brst i Here was the ancient rite, in poy of their harvest.” rat : 2 and perhaps in Anahuac, of offering to the € ee ions to hat it their first ripe fruits ; as has appeared See the case among the various tribes of the eontinent. And our author conceives - t have | art of entwining fruits and frowers must <— an had i indeed, Possibly, ancient origin. chet oh fruit) and flower on the brim of Israel's brazen ancient and as venerabie, as the eee , ne a sea; Ae American ladians: and fe pronoun- their language to have been ~~Tt seems the’Spanish missionaries found such treet \ of resemblance between some of the rites of the reli-/ gion of the natives of Mexico. and the relivion which /} they wished to introduce, that our anthorsaysy 2 They ‘This is derived ‘The sanotilles, the mammea, pears, very light wood. and raisins, occupy the bottom ; while the top Is orna- s——bells and pomecranates, of some of the Indians in the south * of which the ae signal weight in favour of the Israelitish extraction of hose Nootkians ; as has their notion of the innocence fyom a religious principle ofa very remote origin.” He adds; ** Cortez, in his letters to the Emperor Charies V. frequently boasts of the industry which the Mext‘Their taste for flowers cans displayed in gardening. Lhe the beautiful. for relish a undoubtedly indicates contnauthor (our European cannot help being struck -ues) with the care and elegance the natives display 10. distributing the fruits which they sell in small cages ol sa rent familiar in Israel; but probably in Our author speaks of the language Chanism proves an ancient civilization.” Dr, Wde wards (Mr. Boudinot informs) was of the same ovin- para- ise, is most strikingin their tradition. This must ave been learned from the history of Moses, and has images, and carving statues ofsaints. priest’s These ideas were no other nation. oy j -persuaded them that the gospel had in’ very remote times, been already preached in America. - Aud they investigated its traces in the Aztee ritual. with the same ardour which the learned who in our days engage iin the study of Sanscrit, display in discussing the ana(Vi » logy between the Greek mythology and that of the} «Ganges andthe Burrampooter.” lt is a noted fact}! that there is a far greater analogy between much of the reiigion of the Indians, and Christianity, than between ye Y oF ¥ that of any other heathen nation ianity./ e a r on earth and Chris- The aged Indians, noted in the preceding pa’ ; , ges. testified to this, ; , when 8 e the children from the mis . Slonary school came home and informed what instrue tions they had received. The old Indian said Now this is good talk. | This is such as we usec to hear when we were children from the old people till some of the white people came among us, and des troyed it. We thank the Great Spirit that he has prevent it back again! me ur author again says; ‘The migrations of the “othe having been constantly carried on te to south, at least between the sixth and Weilth Centuries, it is certain that the India; oul ton (ofof New New Spa ie eee Spain must be composed pers elements. : OV ved toward the In proportion south, 5 some of very heteroas the population tribes would stop in eilr Rhee ee a tei ; . prosre ss aud mingie : with other tribes that follow‘ ed them.” All seem to ,agtee agree that that tlthe Indian . s came (4) Mi FO2afrcl an, Geiecg. fhe 6mOp AF Film F Heer v} |