The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-14
General lateiEaeace.
AForsaken Church.

In Upper Sandusky, Ohio, there is a
church building, once occupied, but now
utterly forsaken, with which are connect
ed many interesting associations. 1t is
a stone building, of medium size, very
plain in its appearance, and is in tolera-
bly, good state of repair. 1t occupies a
retired and rather picturesque situation,
on the borders of the town, and is COM
pletely surrounded by graves, among
and over which have grown dense thick
cts of brambles and bushes. In those
graves repose many of the children of the
forest, whose wild natures were tanned
by the gospel, proclaimed in the old stone
church. But the church is now as ST.
lent as the graves in which they sleep,
which no kindred steps any more revisit,
tand which no tears of friendship or sor-
row any longer bedew. The Wyandots
have removed to the far West; the mis-
sion house where they were taught the
way of salvation is desolate, and the
graves of their kindred are overgrown
with tangled and unsightly brambles.
lifted the unfastened latch, and open
ed the closed door of this forsaken build
ing; where. hundreds of the red race,
departed, had listened to the word of
God; l entered the pulpit, and, in the
solemn and solitary place where earnest
missionary men had stood, proclaiming
to "the poor Indian" the word of life,
endeavored to fancy the scenes of ro-
mantle and religious interest which they
had witnessed from this very spot. The
seats have all been removed from the
house, but the only damage that the pull
pit and appendages have suffered is, the
breaking down of part of the ballustrade
by which small space in front of the
pulpit had been inclosed, according to
the custom in Methodist churches. The
broken fragment was lying on the floor,
where it could hardly fail to suggest to
the memory the prophet Elijah's COM
plant, ''Lord, they have thrown down
thine altars.''
The graveyard around the church
contains but few indications of the ma
tional peculiarities of the people buried
there. Most of the graves are without
stones. A few, however, have plain mar
bic slabs, with simple inscriptions of the
names and ages of the persons slumber-
ing beneath them. Three or four chill
dren of esquire and Tares Gray-Eyes :"
are buried in different parts of the
grounds. SummeudeWat. murdered
Dec, 184O." "Harryhoot, Died Sep,
1885," Between the Logs. is the
name on one stone this man was a re-
markably intelligent and excellent per-
son, Christian and preacher,
A few weeks ago, two chiefs of the
Wyandot tribe, on their way to Wash
ington city, spent several daysin the town
that has grown up on their grounds since
their removal. They were middle-aged
men, intelligent and dignifed. They
had laid aside the costume, and habits,
and religion of the Indian race; but they
retained, undiminished, their natural at
tachment to the scenes of theirearly life;
and, again and again, during their stay,
did they stroll over their old grounds
along the banks of the Sandusky, visiting
the site of their council-house. now occu-
pied by large and elegant sehool-house,
and lingering long and sorrowfully about
the Old Mission Church, and the place
of their fathers sepulchres.-Presbyte-
rian Banner.