Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1818-12-29

| appeared one alter aROtner, till 1t now ap-
pears equally as practicable to carry ON
mission amongst The Indians as amongst
any wandering unsettled tribes.
i Heather Cruetties in the Vest.
Some weeks ago, Manuel Lisa, Esq.
returned from a trading voyage up the
Missouri, and brought with him a band oil
the Pawnees. The Pawnees live south of
the Missouri, and between that and the
river Plate. They are at war with the
Spaniards OF St. Fee. Lately they killed
seven Spaniards, and took prisoner boy
10 years OF age. They worship as their
chief God, the planet Venus, or the morn
ing star, which they denominate :. THE
GREAT STAR" and to which they offer
human sacrifices. boy they devoted
| to their God, and were about to Offer him,
when M. Liza arrived, purchased the
boy, and brought him TO St. Louis. Some
time ago this sanguinary band took Pado
woman prisoner, and devoted her 10 sacri-
flee. AS she was pregnant, the diabolicai
| rite was put off till after her delivery
| AS soon as she recovered, she stole a
horse end made her escape. Being obi
| ged to leave her babe 10 the hands OF
these bloody idoIaters, it was Immediately
transfixed TO sharp pole, and in this sit
uation offered TO "the Great STAR
Parents, mothers, do you love your chill
dren? does the innocent prattle, the artless
smile, the playful gestures of your chill
dren fill your breasts with exquisite de-
light Oh think of these wretched Paw
nees who sacrifice more or less children
every year to an imaginary deity. Oh,
ye young men, who have devoted, or are
about to devote, yourselves to the work
of the ministry you prefer the ease
and the e'Joynea,tS of civilized and Chris
tan society, TO few pgivations and hard
ships, and suffer these Pawnees to go on
from generation to generation, numbering
women, sacrificing children,-and not feel
one anxious desire 10 teach them the
knowledge of a Saviour?
| A direct communication by means of
the United States trading post, is now
open into any part Of the Indian country,
and all that is wanted, as respects means,
is Missionaries TO enter the field.
| 10 fraternai affection, your, &c.
J. M. PECK.
4 P. S. Our Meeting house goes on rap
idly; the brickwork is finished. We shall
: have commodious room designed for a
school-room and vestry ia the lower part,
finished in few weeks.
" LONDON SOCIETY FOR cHRIsTIANIZING
n THE JEWS.
Extract Of a letter from the ReU. r. Pink
erton, dated Polangen, July 10, 1878.
i I paid a visit to a colony Of Korate
Jews, who have inhabited this delightful
spot, Troki on the border of the lake Bic
nal, for several centuries past
i On entering the house of their chief
Rabbi, | saluted him in Tartar, and to
/, my establishment was answered in the same
] language. | acquired, whence they ORR
! ginally came The apswer was, from the
Fl Crimea, that they and their ancestors had
resided in Troki for nearly four hundred
j gears, and that they possess very distin-
! guished privileges from the ancient dukes
of Lithuana and kings Of Poland. Before
had finished my inquiries, the house of
: the middle aged Rabbi was filled with the
u brethren, who were all anxious to know
4 who the stranger was, aud what he want
ed. Our conversation then began about
}, the signs of the times, and the coming OF
the Messiah, and lasted upwards of an
hour aud a half stated the truth as
clearly and forcibly as I could. The
Rabbi defended his position that the Mes
siah was still to come, with the Old Tes-
: lament in his hand, but having no Tamul-
: die interpretations TO screen himself be-
z hind, he was soon at great loss. The
S people in the mean time were all eye, all
: ear. They had never heard such dis
D course before. The Rabbi was at last so
r much touched with what was said, that he
changed colour, turned pale and looked
3 aside.
81 Another of his brethren, merchant,
well dressed, then came forward, and with
considerable shrewdness attempted TO de-
] fend the cause 10 the view Of the people,
E who were now muttering to each other,
y and anxious to know how all this would
end. Having proved to him also, that
II Messiah must needs have come, spoke
of the purity and spirituality of the Cos.
pei, aud of that eternal life, which is re-
yealed in the doctrines which Christ
, taught. The merchant, found, had read
|, the Polish New Testament with consider
able attention. The Rabbi stood like one
COMPOUNDED: never saw any individual
n ia such a state before. / asked them
whether they had ever read the doctrines
, of Christ and his apostles 10 Hebrew I?
II The question seemed to rouse them in the
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