The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-10-04
The Lords Prayer.

Inc LOrUs prayer.
Ny DEAR WIDE AwAKEs: Can YOU
repeat the Lords Prayer? Without
doubt with one accord you exclaim,
OF course we can? Do you think we
are heathen?"
Well, while the inability to repeat that
prayer correctly might seem to you to
partake of heathenism, yet there are
many, very many, in our own land, who
are heather to just that extent.
Two gentlemen, well known as the
business men of neighboring city,
were upon one occasion laughing at
their ignorance of sacred things. Said
one:
g 1 will wager so that you can't even
say the Lords Prayer"
"Well, cam replied the other
IF you will repeat it correctly the
money is yours"
Agreed"
Whereupon he repeated the following
familiar lines:
Now / lay me down to sleep:
pray the Lord my soul 10 keep:
If / should die before wake.
/ pray the Lord my soul TO take.
well, / declare said the listener,
when the other had finished, Il didn't
believe that you knew it. Here is the
money"
And he paid the money in the belief
that it was the Lords Prayer he had
Just listened to. The other, equally
ignorant, believed that he had repeated
the prayer correctly.
No doubt you smile at the Ignorance
here displayed, but We think that you
will find it no easy task to repeat the
following version of that prayer, even
after diligent study. To assist you to a
guage in which it is given, place the
English of it Immediately under the
word or words which it represents
Nash,n kesutqM o"'tta aS.s
ho,cesuO1s; Peyanmuntch kuAketassotamo"k'
thy name: come thy kingdom
Rattena"tamooh ne" mach oieeH "ea"e
thy will done earth
HesuIQut Nunmeetsuongash asekesukoEish
heaven in food daily
asaDiiainean ye0yen kesutod Nah ahQuontan,aunnean
give us this day and forgive us
our sins wicked doors
nntahQuontamounnon .iAque
we forgive tncms also
sd0kOn,pd0Ui,diiia.eon en- Qutcehudon0anh; Web,
lead not temptation in: Oh
pohqwohbcussinhedn scWtch motchhu,; Ne,cutcht
deliver us evil from; for
kutdhtdun hetdssutdDioOhk k0h NlenuhkesUoRk kdi
thine kingdom and power and
sOhsuDlOOitk Micheme amen.
glory forever Amen.
Queer, isn't it? And you wonder
what language it is? 1t is the language
of the Matte, or Nipmuc, tribe of In
dams who once lived near Boston. In
1868, Rev. John Eliot, the celebrated
apostle to the Indians, translated the
whole Bible into the dialect of thai
tribe. 1t was published at Cambridge
during the same year, and was the frs
Bible printed in America. A SECOND
edition was printed in 1856, in the cor
rection of which Mr.. Eliot received
great assistance from Mr.. John Cotton
The following anecdote is related il
connection with the original translation
by Mr.. Eliot. In the prosecution o
his labor, he came to the following pas
sage in Judges V. 2S 1.-The mothe
of Sisera looked out at the window an,
cried through the lattice" etc. No
knowing an Indian word to signify lat
tice, he applied to several of the native
and endeavored to describe to then
what lattice resembled He describe,
it as a framework, netting, wicker. o
whatever occurred to him as illustrativ.
when they gave him long, barbarou
and unpronounceable word, as are mos
of the words in their language. Som
years after, when he had learned thei
dialect more correctly, he is said to hav
laughed outright upon finding that th
word the Indians had given him was th
true term for eelpOt, making the passag
to read thus: 1.-The mother of SiseI
looked out at the window and erie
through the eelpOtw
Altogether the work is indeed a strane
one, and one which but few living
the present day can read; and, eve
though they know the meaning of til
long words, they are unable to pr
nounce them. We should not. Their,
fore, be surprised, should our youn
readers fail to repeat correctly this We