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Show STATE OF during the theocracy in Israel; and the vast fruitfalnesg _o 1 rec hw of God’s scattering themina “ famine of a wees > nf ; eae . Rn . = me fered and had expressly predicted ayain recovered, ashad some others of thetheir being prophets before their expulsion. They would then naturally carry down these ideas with them in their broken traditions. Phey would retain the expectation tha Being. who banished them, would again, at som t the e time and in some Way, appear and meliorate the ir con dition, And our native Americans generally, if not ali the most intelligent among them, have (with the ven ble Montezuma) retained something of this idea. era Often have Wesh reins of government, and his teaching fromit. ‘They would naturally ascribe whatever knowledge of the useful aris. and.of astronomy they had, to this their noted chieftain. oe The close of this golden age strikingly exhibits the expulsion of Israel from that happy land. The giving of the bevérage, which rendered immortal, is an impressive representation of the immortality of the human soul, as taught inancient revelation.» RePNe. * é © ,ea r ; > . ad 1nfor3 mation from Indian chiefs, and oth gration to a distant region of the world, is a most natural tradition of the-fact, that Israel were disposea to ers from different regions, that they have ever und erstood from their traditions that the time is coming which sleall make them more happy. ‘The same tradition led the aved wife Media where they were first lodged when carried from ies) emigrate (and did indeed emigrate) from the station in unknown and . ~Canaan, to some remote dicates to what region. and in part of the world, where they were outcast and lost from the knowledge of civilized man ; as has been the fact. | And their coming from the north-west to Mexico, 1nwhat direction, they came ; over Beering’s Straits into America, and sou o This accords with the ward through the continent. and all the most iHumbo!t, testimonies of Robinson, telligible writers of Indian tradition. All from the north-west coasts of America. ~The venerable Montezuma (over bring them whom our hearts the eon! /have so often bled) was prepared to receive ; fe plundering Cortez, and his armies, tnto his a ( legislator ancient their by lieving them to be sent of the Indian chief (related by our missiona- to say, afier the missionaries had unfolded theip-. 3oF 2 “pig m. gob ect in her hearing. to the following effect. We have * / ever understoud that at sometime good SS SRS. peop le are to ; Come and teach us the right way. How do ree are those good people come to teac we know h us? co oe : ‘count can be yiven of this expe ctation rouzht down by the natives, but that they derived it from the ancient prophets in Israel; and from the fact that God had promised them the everlasting POssession d the land of Canaan; and had repeatedly hetem In azes itr. 2 past from their states of bonda recovered se and cap/ « ‘hat Cc . . ‘o} Oe . Too? .% » ‘ SPP sees eee le = tA Ponte for transmi- rete And the producing of an ardent desire a. < the Phe| piece of Mexican mythol explained. and which is pronounceogy. which has been d “ the most mysteri= one e rYy: ~ Ped ii probably no rational] toa Lartar ar aoriv orizin, in, or to auy explanation. Other eastern if ; pa. Las a him them useful thiags, may be a general traditional view of Moses’ government of Israel. and the benefits resulting eo oe north to east, from sea to sea,”? wander0 and iro over a vast continent between those exeme seas; —*, to appear. j _ His yielding to the entreaties of the people who of- eo have made oh Indians been o has ae agen tribes of most scrupulously maintained ; as a the various them omone end of the earth to the other gf? and 1 again 7 rec overing them. Amos, the prophet to Israel, had fie rite which __ Israel dad read 11 Moses, of God’ s «“ scattering om fruits 3a of the first ripe ee ee oe, to the siznal institution of the offerings Tete preaching of the gospel under the Oid Testament ; and ee “Divinity the first fruits of the harvests.” alludes to the A- ate * offering to the distant part of the world from whic h they came) to Mets agam over them, and to make them happy ! buidantly are we assured of Indi an tradition which well accords with this. “FS and 209 . rl men, the Aint: t with God. Wea ~ be while A. His preaching peace to honey, SES... ». and = the people of Israel walked miik ISRAEL, ~~ with AND meee mee og of the land which fowed JUDAH aN ag ot PRESENT “ THE OS 208 |