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purity of life , integrity of heart , and soundness * <> f judgment . But even from their example we have been taught the wisdom of the p oet ' s remark—Nullius addictus jiirare in verba tnag-istri .
There will , therefore , benocensure conveyed upon what hath been delivered to the students at York if , through your publication , a request be made that a clear and defipite idea should be conveyed of what kind of ordination seems to Mr . Turner , and to enlightened Christians in general , most congenial with our duties as Pro-
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. ^ AN INDIAN SPEECH ; COMMUNICATED BY MR , BROOKES *
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To the Editor of * the Monthly Repository .
sm , May 20 , 1809 . Upon receiving the Supplement to the Third Volume of your valuable Repository , I turned to page 705 , with considerable
expectation of receiving pleasure from a genuine Talk with the Indians on religion , but I am sorry to say the perusal of it most sadly disappointed me ; for the Talk does not appear to me to convey the real sentiments of the Indians
on that interesting subject , but is the conversation , most probably , either of an Indran convert to Christianity , or of some missionary among the Indians . It is said to be delivered by an Orator . An Orator among the Indians , in
general , is not a person who delivers his own sentiments , but one who is famed for having acquired that art , and who is only furnished with the heads of the subject : the manner of treating it , and all the embellishments being left tp him to weave into his oration , Under
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testant Dissenters ^ tmd our ^ obl h gations as -Christians , - - , It will surely be gratsted we are
to shun the appearance of e ; xef ^ cising powers we do not possess ^ whilst we would impress- those most concerned in the interesting connexion that subsists befcweeti
a religious society and him whpm they appoint to conduct their < levotional services . How this is to be effected , taking scripture for our guide and general good for the object in view , is the investigation * of one who is ever solicitous t& be a searcher after truth . M ;
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this impression , the notes of thft gentleman who sent it yoti ^ whfe h are full of admiration at the sublimity of the language , and justness of the sentiments of Indians
become inapplicable to the subject . I beg leave to subjoin a speech delivered by the Indians , on an offer being made of a Missionary to reside among them , which shews great reluctance at ; the
admission of new religious tenets , and satisfaction with their preseynt views ; and this I found to be the general case among the Indians , from the information of several
persons who had resided fn different parts of the Indian terri - tory , I also observe considerable art manifested in this address ^ on religion , which alone shews the message was given by an Indian not in the American but iii the
English interest ; for in two , if not three parts of the address , it is represented as ven / criminal , and the Indians are rnucli tilamcd . 'for
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An Ittdietn Speech . 49 $ 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/21/
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