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ever visit them. The valleys and the mountains are to be clothed with evergreens. No winter to chill the earth. A carnal heaven indeed ! A sensual paradise! Oh! the credulous and misguided Indian.

“Lo! the poor Indian whose untutored mind, Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; Whose soul proud science never taught to stray Beyond the solar Walk or milky way.

Yet simple nature to his hopes has given, Beyond the cloud top’d hill, a humble heaven, Some safer World in depths of Woods embrace,

Some distant Island in the Watery Waste.

Where slaves once more their native land behold,

Nor fiends torment, nor Christian thirsts for gold.” POPE.

My father often spoke of that country, while I was young. He informed me, that if I should become a great warrior, a hunter, or a medicine man, I would have no difficulty in reaching that happy spot. Little then did he know of a heaven revealed in the gospel. That heaven, where angels and pure spirits dwell, and where we shall see the blessed Jesus as he is, and, what is still a greater honor, be like him.

“ O for a thousand tongues to sing “ Oh uh pa--gish ke che ingo’ dwok, My great Redeemer’s praise ! Neej uh ne she nah baig,

The glories of my God and King, Che nuh nuh guh mo tuh wah wod The triumphs of his grace ! Ning e zha Mun e-doom.

“ My gracious Master, and my God, “ Ning e che N00 sa weej e shin, Assist me to proclaim, Che ween duh mah ga yon,

To spread through all the earth abroad 0 mah a ne gook kuh me gog The honors of thy Name. A zhe wa be ze yun.

“Jesus! the Name that charms our fears, “ Jesus! kah be ’non duh we ’nung That bids our sorrows cease ; Kah gah see beeng wa ’nung-,

Tis music in the sinner’s ears, Ka gait ’che me no ne kah ;.q,

’Tis life, and health. and peace.” Kah noo je nm e nung.”