New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-13


lite shore the City OF Providence living name which
will syays bear witness 10 BIS persecution ana trust In
God Here he maintained friendly relations WITH the
Indians, warded off elsa ter by quieting thsr threat
sgs ressions, from the people who had driven him
away received fugitives for conscience sake from
Massachusetts Bay, and promoted the tettement OF
RHODE Island. la l643 be ssiled from Ne~-Amser-
cam for England as an agent ID procure a charter.
On bis way timber at $50, be wfoe his hey INTO the
Language Of America, which he published in London
lis arrival 81 drew" be Gays ia his address, 70
my dear snc well beloved friends and countrymen in
Oh and New England, the materials in rude lamp
al sea- az o private help to my own memory, that
might pot by my present absencs lightly lose what
has 60 dearly tous hit in some few yeas OF hardship
and charges smong the Barbaians" and he commit
ted it to the public for the benefit Of his Ieods.
lit e key, be seys, may open box where lies
bunch of keys
Ths book lie ia series Of thirty two chapters, each
cobtaiJiI vocabulary, with an occasional enla ge-
ment at a suggestive word relating to manners 0; no
second chapter, Of Eating and Entertainment, tnis
pious and beIevo ent man .ouchiDgly adds;
Coarse bre ad and waters mott their fare,
Eng laid diet fne
Thy cop runs DER with penteous store
OF wholesome beer and VINE.
Sometimes God gives them fish or hesb
Yet they re content without;
And wba, comes in they part TO FRIENDS
And strangers round abtus
Gods Providence is rich to bis,
Let DoLe distrustul be;
In wilder ess, In great distress,
There Ravens have fed me.
There IL the sane simpi ;ity and fa 10 Providence
in tie rect of these title poems wherever the topic
gives him opportunity to express it. The notes are
simply jOtiDgs Gown OF facts he had noiced-but even
these few words ere SOMEHOW il inc. with his kindly
spiIit. " once Travelled" he ssye "tO an leland OF
the widest Ill our ports, where IN the night an ln1laa
las he said had vlslOn or dream OF the san whom
they worship fer Cos darling beam into bis breast
h. IN hQ Ia ynee- IN.
This poor nsve called his friends and neghbOs, and
prepared title refreshing for them, but himself
kept waking and fasting in great humlllatons ana
invocation for days and nights. was alone nav
ing Travelled from my bark the wind being contrary
eLd little couC speak to them, 10 their understand
ing, especially because of the change OF their daec.
manner of speech from our neghbors; yet so much
Through The tep of God did speak, OF The true and
and hUipg only ciSe God of the Creation of Mau and
his fall from God, &C., tina: at parting nsny bnrot
forth, Oh uhen wW yOu come again to bring US some
more neps of this God ~ And TO this follow the
more particular reflections:
God gives them sleep on ground, on straw,
On 81. dgy mats or bOard
When Eugl sh softest beds of dowl,
Sometimes no sleep afford.
have known them leave their house and met,
To lOoge friend stranger,
When Jews and Christians oft have sent
Christ Jesus TO the manager.
Fore day they nvocate their gods,
Though many Ease and new;
o, how should that God wOIshipt be,
Who is but one and true
GLOW swtetly," he says " do all the several sorts
of heavens binds In e coasts Of the world, preach
unto men The praise of their Makers wisdom, power
and goodness who feeds them and their young ones,
Summer aid inter, with their several sorts of food
although they neither SOW nor reap, nor gather into
bari sV
If birds that neither SOW nor reap,
Nor store up any food
Constantly TO them and theirs
A maker hind ard good
If man provide exc for his Birds
In yard, in coops, in cage
And each bird spends in songs and tunes,
His little time and age!
What care will man. what care will God
For bis wife and children takel
Millions Of birds and worlds will God
Sooner than his forsake,
To the general observations Of their travel"
God makes path, provides a guide,
And feeds in wilderness
His elorious name while breath remains,
o, that I may ,nfess.
Lost mary a time, have had no guide,
No house, but hollow tree
In stormy Winter hight no fire,
No food no company.
In Him have found house, bed,
A table, company:
No cup 80 bitter, but g made sweet,
w ZEN God shall swee tening be.
Passing over the vile space which separates
Roger Williams from DR.. Franklin, we must give
word of commentator to the curious propriety
of phrase and the judcious choice of details which
characterize the biography of our great American
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