Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-03-11

held, weekly, in the hot seasons. and
more In the cooler. Four more mission.
aries, with assistants. are required im,ne-
diately.
Pilgrims progress.
This sublime evangelical poem, has
been translated in Teloogoo. The now
er OF idolatry in the region of Madras IS
thought to be greatly on the decline.
The a0o'k IN Polynesia.
In the Navigators' Islands, $4,000 ma.
lives are under Christian instruction. In
the Society Islands, congregations are We
ry large. In the Georgian Islands. a ora
'cious revival has been enjoyed, and many
added 10 the communion. The entire scrin-
lures have been published in the Ian ouage
of the natives.
Gospel Propagation Society.
The expenditures ofthis Society, for the
support of the gospel in the British Norlh
American colonies, during the wear 1898
amounted 20 10000 dollars. Il is con.
Quoted by British Episcopalians. About
S25'oOO are annually expended in the
West Indies.
Under the Scotch Mission
AT Bombay, considerable excitement
was created by the conversion and ban
Ilsm OF two Pa:see youths, in connection
with the labors of DR.. Wilson.
The Indian Territory:
600 miles long. 200 broad It is fer
tile, and had 100000 red men for its in
habltants last May. The Kanzas tribe
number 1888, are situated on the Kanzas
river, in three villages, and have pros.
porous Methodist missions, within so
miles. viz: Klckapoos. Delawares, Shaw
nees: The population has in creased
within few months more than thirty
thousand: now they are. therefore, more
than a hundred thousand, settled for their
permanent home.
All the history of the past shows the
difficulty Of applying the means of i'm
provement 10 wandering tribes But, in
duce them to become fixed and perma-
nent, and more than all, let them be de-
pendent on the produce Of the ground for
subsistence; then they are within our
reach, and from that moment they have
special interest in the country in which
they live. Industry then becomes me-
cessGry 10 prolong life, and priuats prop
eTty is invested with an interest, which
the hunter knows nothing OF. With IN
dustry and the desire Of protection IN IN
d'U1duGL property, are connected some of
the most important moral virtues. and
there is felt, too, the necessity of some
faao for protection. In such condition
war ceases to be desirable; and then men
begin to see the importance of at least so
much education as may be needed in the
work OF legislative and administrative
justice. At this stage, the work of civil
improvement may be safely left, in ordin-
airy circumstances, to take care of itself
But as surely as there is in human nature
an instructive desire to improve our con-
dition, SO surely may we, as a general
rule, expect people TO improve when
once brought into condition that admits
of improvement. The work NAV, nav.
it must be slow; or it may be hindered
and interrupted by war, by local circum-
stances, or by the conduct of wicked and
designing men; bat, contingencies aside,
our expectations of improvement are
founded upon principles interviewer with
every feeling Of the human heart. Great
ly therefore, do they err who assume that
Indians cannot be civilized. And it is be-
lieved that they also do err as much who
assume that civilization must necessarily
60 before Christianity. The Christian
religion is adapted TO human nature un-
der all circumstances, and in every posi-
bic condition and at the same tine that
it may be allowed that some conditions
have more temptations than others to do
wrong, or to neglect holy duties, vet
what in the nature of things should pre-
vent the Indian hunter, who is clothed
in skins, and dwels in wigwam, from
knowing his Redeemer and discharginp
piously the duties of his station? Does
Christianity consist 10 living in goodIy
houses Is piety necessarily connected
with European cloth or the wearing of a
hat? Surely there is no valid reason
why the gospel should not be made
known to the Indian tribes IN erery stag
Of their improvement, or even while
they are yet farthest removed from civ.
ilzation. And if, as is sometimes the
case, the huly truths of Gods word gain
an enterance into the hearts of savages
they win hardly be thereby disqualified
from improving their physical condition
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