Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-10-14
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ACCOUNT OF REGINA-A SOTRY
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Pennsylvania. There were 40 churhes
or schools then in that nelghborhood,
and he was obliged to DO satisfied with
keeping the Sabbath at home with his
family, and instructing them himself to
read the Bible and to pray to God. he
used very often to read the Bible to
them, and always used first to say, Now
my children, he still, and listen to what
I am going to read, for it is God who
speaks to us in this book"
In the year 1854, dreadful war broke
out in Canada, between the French and
the English. The Indians took the side
of the French, and made excursions as
far as Pennsylvania, where they plum
| dered and burnt the houses they came to,
! and murdered the people. In 1855, they
dwelling of the poor family from Wurt-
| emburg, while the wife and one OF the
| sons were to the mill, a few miles distant,
/ to get some corn ground. The husband,
tho eldest son and two little girls, named
Barbara and Begina, were at home. The
father and his son were instantly killed
by the sayages, and they carried the two
little girls away into captivity, with q
great many other children, who were
taken in the same manner. They were
led many miles through woods thorny
bushes, that nobody might follow them.
In this condition, they were brought to the
habitations of the Indians, who divided
amongst themselves all the children
whom they had taken captives. Bar,
bara was at this time ten years old, ana
Regina, with a little girl Of two years
old, whom she had never seen before,
were given to an old widow. who was a
very cruel woman. Her only son lived
with her and maintained her, but he
was sometimes from home for weeks to-
gether, and then these poor children
were forced to go into the forests TO
gather roots AID other provisions for the
old woman, and, when they did not
bring her enough to eat, she would beat
them in so cruel q manner that they
were near being killed. The little girl
always kept close to Regina, and when
she knelt down under a tree, and repeat
ed those prayers to the Lord Jesus, and
those hymns which her father had taught
her, then the little girl PRAYED with her,
and learned the prayers and hymns by
heart. In this melancholy state of sla
very these children remained nine long
years, till Regina reached the age OF Six
teen, and her little companion was eleven
years old. They were both ~fne.looking
girls, particularly Regina. While cap
tiyes. their hearts seemed to have always
been drawn towards what was good
Regina continually repeated the verses
from the Bible. and the hymns which she
had learned when at home, and she had
taught them to the little girl.
They often used to cheer each other
with one hymn from the hymn-book used
at Halle, in Germany !" Alone, yet not
alone am [. though IN this solitude SO
dear" They constantly hoped that the
Lord Jesus would, sometime, bring them
back to their Christian friends. In 1864,
their hopes was realized. The merciful
providenee of God brought the English
Colonel Bouquet to the place where they
we're in captivity. He conqured the In
dams, and forced them to ask for peace.
The first condition he made was, that
they should restore all the prisoners they
had taken. Thus the two girls were
released More than four hundred cap
tives were brought to Colonel Bonquet.
1t was q woeful sight to see SO many
young people wretehed and distressed.
The Colonel and his soldiers gave them
food and clothes, and Colonel Bouquet
brought them all to q town called Car,
liale and published in the Pennsylvania
newspapers, that all parents, who had
lost their children, might come to the
| place, and in case of their finding them,
they should be restored to them. Poor
Regina's Borrowing mother came among
many other bereaYed parents to Carlisle /;
but alas her child had beco.ae a stran-
ger to her. Regina had acquired the
| appearance and manner as well as the
language of the natives. The poor moth
err went up and down among the young
| persons assembled, but by no efforts could
she discover her daughter. She wept
in bitter grief and disappointment. Col
onel Bouquet said, do you reccollect
| nothing by which your children might be
discovered 2" She answered that she
rcccollected nothing but q hymn, which
was as follows:
"Alone, yet not alone am l,
Though in this solitude SO dear;
| feel my Saviour alwaye nigh,
Hs comes the weary hours to cheer.
1 am with HIN, and he with me,
Even here alone cannot bs,"
The Colonel desired her to sing this
hymn. Scarcely had the mother sung
two lines of it, when Regina rushed from
the crowd, began to sing it also, and
threw herself into her mothers arms
They both wept for joy, and the Colonel
restored the daughter to her mother.
But there were no parents or friends in
search of the other little girl ; it is sup
dosed theg we're all murdered and now
the child chung to Regina, and would not
not let her go aud Regina's mother
although very poor, took her home with
her, Regina repeatedly asked after the
book in which God speaks to 49," Bnl
ner mother did not possess a Bible she
nad everything when the natives had
ournt her house. She resolved to 60 to
Philadelphia and buy Que there, but the
pastor Muhleubarg OF that place gave
1er one. 1t was most extraordinary |
that Regina still retained her early in
sfrnptions and was able to read it imme-