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that neither the day nor the night may ever come when we shall ever be involved in so direful a fate , either for ourselves , or those with whom we are connected : but that we and ours may preserve our faculties so far as never
to fall under so sore an evil : may our latter end be in peace , and our hope everlasting felicity . " O , Almighty God ! terrible in thy judgments , and wonderful in thy doings toward the children of men , we would
deprecate thy displeasure , and beg of thee to preserve our minds calm , and In the sound use of all our faculties to life ' s extremest verge . Thou hast called us lately to the contemplation of a direful catastrophe , resulting from a previous loss of intellect , O
may thy guardian Providence watch over us for our good , an 4 turn from every one of us so deplojsable an evil : that we , being protected by thy goodness from all dangers , may glorify thee to our last hour , through Jesus Christ , our great Mediator and Advocate . Amen . "
This discourse was delivered to a full and most respectable assembly of Protestant Dissenters , awfully impressed with the pious earnestness of the preacher .
On the following Sunday . Sent . 1 . On the following Sunday , Sept . 1 , the Rev . S . W . Browne preached a Sermon in the same chapel on the Disenthralment of the Greeks from the Ottoman oppressive government M . . J .
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Sir , LATELY purchased , at an old I book-stall , a pamphlet written by the famous Dr . Jonathan Edwards , on the language of certain Indian tribes . On the last page of this little tract , there is printed the following whimsical anecdote , which you will perhaps
think worthy of a place in your Repository . The imprint is dated London , 1788 , and purports to be a reprint of an American edition of the preceding year . I suspect that the London publication had been edited by the Kev . Dr . Rippon , and that he is the I . R .
mentioned in this Appendix , and probably the first publisher of the anecdote : for , on the same page , there is an advertisement of " Hymns intended to be an Appendix to Dr . Watts ' s Psalms and Hymns , by John Rippon , A . M . " B . D .
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Appendix . * * . - s As the following anecdote is well authenticated , and stands recommended by an artless simplicity , it may not be unacceptable to the reader to find it inserted in this vacant page . Conversation between the Rev . Mr . M — and Pagey , an Indian .
Pagey . Do you know any ting , Sir , of Jesus Christ ? Minister . I trust I do . Pagey . O blessed for ever Jesus Christ , he make white man know him , he make poor Indian know him , blessed for ever . Amen . Minister . How did you find Jesus Christ ?
Pagey . I no findee him , he nndee me . Minister . Where did he find you ? Pagey . I was a work in my field , a hoeing my corn , and den I tink I hear someting say , Pagey ! Ah , I look but I see noting . So 1 stooped down again and I hoe my corn , and I tink 1 hear sometiug say , Pagey ! I cry out , What a you say ? but I see noting , and I feel cold on
my head . I go up high hill and . look round , but I see noting ; den I tink I hear someting say again , Pagey ! I cry out , What a you say ? and I tink he say to me , Pagey ! you know who gave a you dat corn ? I say , No . And he say , Jesus Christ gave a you dat corn ; I fall on my face on a ground , and I cry , cry , when I tiuk a blessed Jesus give poor drunken Indian corn .
Minister . What , Pagey , do you get drunk now ? Pagey . Oh , no ! me never be drunk again after Jesus Christ tell a me he give a me dat corn ; so den I go home to my wigwaum , ( his hut or house , ) and see a my squaw ( his wife ) ; my squaw be a drunk , I take up a tick for a beat a my
squaw , but while I hold up a my hand to beat a my squaw , I tink I hear blessed Jesus say , —Pagey ! Jesus Christ a beat a you when you was drunken Indian ? So den I trou down my tick and I fall on my face , and I cry , and I pray for my squaw , and blessed Jesus hear me , and my poor squaw never get drunk any more : ¦ _ 0 blessed for everJesus Christ . Amen .
, One man he ask a me , Pagey ! who is best , you or your brother deacon ? I say no best , Jesus Christ best , blessed for ever . Amen . Dey tell a me 1 must tink dare be tree in God , and but one God ; so I tell a my blessed Jesus , and he
say , Pagey ! you know de rain ? * es . And you know de hail ? Yes . And you know de snow ? Yes . Well , you know de rain be water , de snow be water , ana de hail be water ; but they are all one water . I jump up ; I have a—1 have a .
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544 Conversation between ihe'Rev . Mr . M ^— + " andsPagey , an Indian
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 544, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/24/
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