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tsess , & nd it is both perverse and ungenerous ; for if it hath j ) lease 4 the Creator to give a stronger tnind to the male sex , he did uot intend ttiey should make iise of such superi or ity , to deceive and mislead * from the paths of virtue the feebler sex . He on the
contrary , designed them in this , to be their supporters and protectors . Therefore , when you cast your <* yes upon a woman to desire her ^ do it only in concurrence with the commands of the Great Spirit , to take her to be your wife ; and . as sucb , protect , cherish and honour her- Some -who have been
married a lo & g time , and have got a family , leave their wives without iust cause- and so give reason to suspect that they either do so , to disburden themselves of the
charge , or to gratify their own inordinate desires for -variety ; but this is not'right , for it is the command of the Great Spirit , that the marriage-tye should be indissoluble ; and that neither one
party nor the other should break it until death . * ' Sisters , —I now address myself to you , for sin is not confined to one sex , and cohort you , for
the love of Him who created us , that where you find it among you , you may speedily put it away . There are too ' nismy instances ot married women that are much
heloved by their husbands , who on this account , in every respect , hefcaye ill ami perverse to them ; confiding that the love they bear
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them , will keep them constaat , and ever prevent them -from taking offence with any part of their Conduct . This is not only
imprudent but ungenerous and wicked ; for though a hu & band may loye with t } ie strongest affection , yet repeated ill usage will .. seldom fail to turn that love into hatred . Rut
if the mind of the woman be in a right stale , she will be thank Ail ait her heart , that she is beloved hj the partner of her life , and wbera she cannot make stich warm re *
turns of affection , she should , sst least , make such returns as die commandment of the Great
Spirit requires . * * It too frequently happens that married women become
discontented ^ when their hustjatids return unsuccessful from tbecha . ee , and lament their fate , that he does not sufficiently provide them with necessary clothing to defend ihoja
iroin the cold , or dress to gratify their vanity . To remedy tlii & , they sometimes take other husbands , that are richer or in we . expert in hunting . In this , they act very wrong , and thus to & wid a
trifling inconvenience , they run the risk of incurring a much greater ' evil . — If ijbey have children , they do them an injury ; for it is not possible , that their step-father will be so tender of them , as their
own father would hfivc been ; and what is a much greater evil yet , they rebel against the command *
of the Groat Spirit , f thereby incurring his displeasure . For he
* What noble sentiments are here delivered f I . ct the gelf-sufficient , highly-enlightened Christian bow "his head before this child of nature , this poor Indian , and Jcarn the purest morality . j \ I cannot but think there is something more than the light of nature implied , a reference tcin ^ here niadc , and in many places expressed of the will of the Deify
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Original Acciunt of a Meeting or Talk of Indians . 713
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 713, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/21/
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