The First Annual Report: Of the American Society for Promoting the Civilization and General Improvement of the Indian Tribes in the United StatesSociety, 1824 - 71 頁 |
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第 63 頁 - Can we be said to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us if we wantonly inflict on them even the smallest pain?
第 64 頁 - In these his boisterous menaces and unrighteous designs, this petty Nero was supported by three or four others, who were influenced by a similar spirit. " The earth," however, " is the Lord's ; " and true it is, that " he reigneth : " yea, and " though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished.
第 27 頁 - And Caleb stilled the people before Moses and said, let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
第 9 頁 - Directors — shall compose a body to be denominated the Board of Directors of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
第 33 頁 - My Children — you must remember that it is by the goodness of the Great, Good Spirit we are preserved through the night. My children you must listen to my words. If you wish to see many good days and evenings you must love to all men, and be kind to all people. "If you see any that are in distress, you must try to help them. Remember that you will also be in distress some time or other. If you see one...
第 58 頁 - It u desirable that our Indians should receive such an education as has been mentioned, we conceive, because the civilized is preferable to the savage state; because the' Bible, and the religion therein revealed to us, with its ordinances, are blessings of infinite and everlasting value, and which the Indians do not now enjoy. It is also desirable as an act of common humanity. The progress of the white population, in the territories which were lately the hunting grounds of the Indians, is rapid,...
第 33 頁 - Children, if you see aged man or woman on your way doing something, you must pity on them, and help them instantly. In so doing, you will make their hearts glad, and they will speak well of you And further, if you see your neighbors quarreling, you must try to make them to be good friends again.
第 56 頁 - ... the corrupting vices, and fatal diseases, which have been introduced among them, by wicked and unprincipled white people. These acts can be viewed in no other light, than as national sins, aggravated by our knowledge, and their ignorance; our strength and skill in war, and their weakness— by our treacherous abuse of their unsuspicious simplicity, and, especially, by the light and privileges of Christianity, which we enjoy, and of which they are destitute.
第 31 頁 - Hudson's river; then they said one to another, this is like Muhheakunnuk our nativity. And when they found grain was very plenty in that country, they agreed to kindle fire there and hang a kettle, whereof they and their children after them might dip out their daily refreshment.