The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-06-14
Written for the Perrysburg Jourbal.l
Condition, Character and His
tory Of the African Race.
NUMBER THREE.

The manuscript writton at the request OF
President BENsoN by negro traveller, OF
which spoke in my second paper, begins |
like the chapters of the Koran, and all com
mon Arab writings, with these words: "ln
the name Of Con the Compassionate, the
Mer6iCul," and adds, may GoD bless
our hrd MoHANMgp, his Prophet, and guard
him and his disciples, and give him place
abupdautly." Then follow several pages
ON the origin of main in which tito creative
power and the Wisdom and benevolence Of
God are magnihod, after which the writer
proceeds thus;
Aud God said o, children of Adam
when you arrive 1T the age Of ten you are
bordering on the years of mon and women,
aud you will bo expected to attend prayers
aud preaching, and bear testimony and not
fear the day of Judgment You will be
tompted by men who will say, Pursue tho
way of sin and disobedience aud forget.
fulnoss of what the meroilul have enjoined
upon you times without humber. q man,
of thirty years reckon not yourself a little
child but man grown. Attend to your
lasts, your prayers day aud night and ii
you continue thus day and night you will
loo reckoned among the excellent of men,
being in secret and before the world the
same. Son of Adam il you have ccme to
forty years. you have attained your full
strens III. TIE marks Of full age bear witness
to this your Vigor is ripe; your mind
is mature what you have learned is written
we'll on your memory guard against wine
aud tho indulgence of impurity. And then,
thou son of fifty years thou kuowest the
advantages thy love to the faith hath pro
cured YOU. II has brought thee into tho
society of tho great, and it has pleased
Him him who ia the possessor Of all ex.
cellency and power. Thou son Of sixty
years! from the decline of thy strength
your passions are cooled. Look at your
noon of life and Judge how far your life
aud death are in your power, and it you
have not given up your hope i'll tho word
of Gods prophet (,nay God bless him) you
will have established for yourself o good
household in these sixty years. 0 ye, who
heed not what shall come upon you; take
care how you put any one III partnership
with God for this is d dangerous thing like
that of the spilling of blood. 0 thou son,
estimate not yourself from the length OF
your past life but from the nearness Of
your death. O thou man of ninety death
is coming upon you with power, but there
is ne pain in Paradise. o man Of q hun
dred worn out with hundred cares, thou
who has challenged 10 thyself tho age OF
Noah peace be on thee! Alas alas how
wilt thou meet thy reward and thy re-
warder2 The Most High has brought your
stewardship to a close according to the
word of the Lord who thus testifies to
every man who has a heart and an ear.
0 ye old men! remember that the seed,
after it has sprouted forth and before the
harvest, dies. o ye young people how
many that began lite have been removed
before growing up! Where is Charon and
his host? They have persisted Where
is Shadad-ibn aid and his hostH They have
eished. Where is Nimrodi son OF
Canaan, and his host2 Where are the
sons and daughters, fathers and mothers
of the past idoatcrs All perished
Where are your own fathers and mothers,
ancient and modern? They have perished
aud be assured that your end will be the
same as theirs
The following are extracts of tho trans
lation of a manuscript received from ex'
President RoBEBTs. This also is written
with great elegance and correctness, the
proper names being in red ink, and the
points carefully marked. This manuscript
occupies sixteen letter-sheet pages, the
other eighteen:
In the name of COP, Most Merciful and
Gracious, may GoD bless our Lord MoHAM
MED Thanks be to GoD, who is worthy Ol
all gratitude and praise the forgiven oi
sins the possessor of the throne OF glory
who created all things by himself; who
created death and lite and created the
earth and the heavens and all creatures il
heaven and the earth who made the rac'
of man from water then he made the
blood, the heart and the bones then ht
spread the flesh upon the bones then he
added the tendons then said God be he
exalted who created you from the ground
and from water, that we might show anc
confirm through mercy what we wish tC
every generation. 0ye poopel know "
that God is lnercifu toward you ; but tina
coming day will be terrible to the unbe
levers, who live not as though there wa
God, nor as if we were going to return tt
him. ye people fear God and serv'
your Lord. Do your good works befor'
the dissolution of death. That day, Coo
hath said nothing will profit you but pur'
heart. Beware, yea. beware, lest you heh
the truth without repentng, and thus de
base yourself. If you are asleep, be reused
If you are ignorant make inquiry. If yo'
are forgetful, refresh your memory TO
here are the learned, ready to instruct you
He then commences long and solemn
appeal to the unknown persons, in whose
name he had been requested to send some
thing in writing, and whom he appears t
have supposed to be iguorant of the frs
principles OF religion, but for whom he feel
an affectionate regard:
30, my brothers son, do not join your
self with Satan, for Satan is your enemy
as God the Exalted has said--for Satan i
your enemy, and will you make partnership
with your enemy? o my brothers son, 10
not the affairs of this life draw away you
affections. Follow not the wind, do not de
ceive yourself, but bs prepared before
sickness or poverty, or old age ongros
your attention. God, the Exalted, says,
man, who has set you against your Lord
wLo created, shaped aud adjusted you ant
put you together in shape that pleased
) him. God, the Exalted says, the; the life o
this world is of very little ProEt in tn
world TO come
BY fortunate incident the writer Of on
of the aforementioned manuscripts iron
: Liberia added at the end half of page o
some language uukhown to the trans
lator, but doubtless some African tongue
: thus affordng evidence OF tue interest
ing fact, so little known in our owl
country, that native languages are write
,, in Arabic characters. Aud also that ii
no uncommon thing to find Africans learne
in different languages.-
STONY RIDGE, May, 1867. d. Ii. P.
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