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    tipns Jp the funds of JVIissIpriaiy Societies , called dn a gentlemaii m Haverliili anil requested his charity . The gentleman < lecliqt £ d subscribing , but adctecl , that " tbere are in and about the towjk of ——— , nine clergymen , iqiqisters of nine congregations , not one of whom lives on terms of civility wjth any other , will adroit none other into Sis pufpit , jior be permitted to go into the pulpit of any fcttjer . Now , if you will * raise a fynd to convert these iiine clergymen to Christianity , I will contribute' as mviqh a ^ any other ijnan . " I am , with great esteem , yojir friend , JOHN AJDA 1 VJS .

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    No . ccpcxrv , Conduct of Christians a Stumbling * block to Pagans .

    We sometimes wonder that all the world doe 3 not become Christian , forgetting that Heathen nations see our religion for the first time in connexion wijfch the character of CJiristians by profession , who exhibit all ths vices and crimes incident to human nature .

    Th § truth 19 thus hindered by our tfnrighteousrieas , ancl Jhe name of God is spoken ill of , or at \§ m $ bis revealed will is disparaged , by the Gentiles , Th } 3 reflection is forced iippn us by a passage in the Quarterly Eevievv , compiled from two works upon the North-American Indians , one by the

    celebrated Mr . John Hunter , whu was brought up amongst them , and the other by ] $ r . Buchanan , a resident in Canada , who in an account of the Indians has inserted < a description of their religion from the pen of Mr . Heckewelder , a Moravian missionary , long * conversant with this people , The doubts of our " red brethren" are the

    artless expressions of strong a , nct honest minds , and their want of faith may excite pity , but not resentment or despair of their eternal condition . " The Indians , says Heckewelder ,

    believe that the Great Spirit , knowing the wickedness of the white men , found it necessary to give them a great book , and taught them how to read it , that they might know and observe what he wished then *

    to do and to abstain from . But they , the Indians , have no need of any such book to let them know the will of their Maker ; they find it engraved on their own hearts ; they have had sufficient discernment given them to distinguish good from evil , and by following that guide they are sure not

    to err . — " The white men told us a great many things which they said were written In the good book , and wanted us to believe it all . We would probably have dojie so , if we had seen them practise what they pretended to believe , and

    act according to the good words they told us- But no ! while they held their big book in one hand , in . the other they had murderous weapons , guns , and swords to kill us poor Indians ! Ah ! and they did sq too ; they killed those who believed in their book as well as those who did not .

    They made no distinction i"U ~ " When the ludians converse on these subjects , " observes Hiunter , " they say , The white men teH Iudfctn be hjon , est < ludiau ha ^ e no prison ; Indian have n # g ^ ol for unifor ^ Ujn ^ te d-ptytjcws 9 Jndiaji ha , ve no lock on his d < K > r /* ^^ flW ^ r "

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    GLEANINGS ; OR , SJEIiECTIONS ANJ > REFLECTIONS MADJ 3 IN A COURSE OF GENERAL RjEADING . No . ccqcxiii . The Chinese . In a sensible ftlenaoir concerning the Chinese / ' "by Joha Francis Davis , Esq ., F . R . S ., M . R . A . S ., inserted in the " Transactions pf the Royal Asiatic Society , " Vol . I , the author states it as his opinion , that a pareful examination of the authentic annals of China , undertaken with a proper degree of scepticism towards the misrepresentations of national vanity , will

    establish the following facts : " that the antiquity of China as an Empire , has been greatly exaggerated , ^ q d that it cannot be dated earlier than the reign of CM-hoang-ti , about B . C , 200 ; that it was then confined almost

    entirely to that half of modern China , which lies between the great river Keang , airid the confines of Tartary ; that it was subsequently split into several independent nations , which , after various contests and revolutions , were formed into two Empires , the

    Northern and Southern , and became finally united under one head , about A . D . 585 ; that China has been the theatre of as bloody and continued wars , as have ravaged most of the other countries of the globe ; that it

    has twice , and a , t no very distant periods pf time , been completely conquered by foreign ^ fM-b ^ rians ; a , nd th ^ at its las t conquerors ex ^ rcisja pver it , at this cjay , an imperious , and by no means impartial sway , but p ^ e in whk ; U the , precedence and the trust are , ia uxost ca ^ s / conferred on the rartar . ^ m '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 36, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/36/