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lest by fraudulent writings , they gain a title you did not intend , and thereby involve you in
contention to get them expelled agiiiiu c * I have first spoken on lands , because without these , we are deprived of the means of subsisting independently during the time the Gieat Spirit niuy be
pleased to permit us to live here ; besides the crime of parting with these , filled with the bounty of his bands , is much more heinous than may have been generally supposed . 4 Brothers , I begin with drunkenness ; because it is not
only a great erimfem itself , by degrading the faculties of the mind , but it is also the cause of many others , that have been committed in the paroxysms of intoxication ; so that friends have "drawn the
murderous weapon , and sheathed it in each other ' s bosoms ; destroy - ing thus , the lives of those who , before their minds were bewil . dered with its baneful beverago , they would have risked their own
to save . In short , we have never heard of blood being spilled' in times of peace arfiong us , unless it might be attributed justly to this poisoner of the mind . lit is also when affected by this baneful juice that the husband , at other
times ( oting and constant to his wife , forgets his affection and moditsty and socks the embraces of the s > tranger . He then squanders
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away that which should have sup . ported his family . * When habituated to this state , every vice
gams a gigantic strength , because now become destitute of '" the guidance of the intellectual faculties , the ferocious become murderers , the vain adulterers , the * covetous thieves . —Will any one
therefore , . for the sake of a silly debauch , offend his Maker ? run the risk of becoming a murderer , or of being murdered ? or of becoming an adulterer or a thief ? of being the terror or the shame of those to whom he is related or
endeared by friendship ? I hope there are none so stupid or evil ; and if there are any that have goire astray , let them instantly repent and reform their liws , in obedience to the commands of the
Author of our existence , for they know not the moment they may be called on to receive their finai doom . f fC < As you have just heard that
adultery and fornication are also breaking the laws of God , you must take heed to your ways , that you offend not in this respect ; for to find acceptance with him , nothing that he forbids should be
tolerated . Too many arc vain of seduemgf aU the females they can , to be subservient to their lusts , and they say in palliation that it is the fault of the women in acceding , to their addresses . This is a bad excuse for
wicked-* A War-Chief from the Shawnnese tribe who attended this Talk , expressed his approbation here , and said that a great reformation had taken place , in this respect in his xxjuiitry , and that the serious persevered in hopes of averting the anger of the Oreat Spirit . - f By this h appear ^ -that the Indians of North America believe in a future state of reward and punishment , and that they believe that the | Scntcnce takes place immediately on their death . , . . • ¦ »
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712 Original Account of a Meeting or Talk of Indians .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/20/
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