a long course of centuries. Impressed on these wild tenants of the forest, (these children of nature, without books or letters, or any thing but savage tradition,) striking characters are found of the truth of ancient revelation.

The intelligent vindicator of the word of God has never feared to meet the infidel on fair ground. His triumph has not been less certain than that of David against Goliah. But in the view taken of the natives of our continent, the believer will find additional arguments, in which to triumph. He will find more than "five smooth stones taken out of the brook,” (1 Sam. xvi. 40,) each one of which is sufficient to sink into the head of an impious Goliah, challenging the God of Israel.

Let the unbeliever in revelations undertake to answer the following questions.

Whence have the greater part of the American natives been taught the being of one and only one God; when all other heathen nations have lost all such knowledge, and believe in many false gods?

Whence have the Indians, or most of them, been kept from gross idolatry, which has covered the rest of the heathen world? and to which all men have been so prone?

Whence have many of them been taught that the name of the one God, the Great Spirit above, is Yohewah, Ale, Yah, (Hebrew names of God,) who made all things, and to whom alone worship is due?

Who taught any of them that God, at first, made one man from earth; formed him well; and breathed him into life? and that God made good and bad spirits; the latter of whom have prince over then

Whence was the idea among these untutored savages, that Yohewah was once the covenant God of their nation; and the rest of the world were out of covenant with him,—the accursed people?

Whence their ideas that their ancestors once had the book of God; and then were happy; but that they lost it; and then became miserable; but that they will have this book again at some time?

Whence their notion that their fathers once had the Spirit of God to work miracles, and to foretel future events?

Who taught the untutored savage to have a temple of Yohewah; a holy of holies in it, into which no common people may enter, or look?

Who taught him a succession of high priests ? that this priest must be inducted into office by purifications, and anointing? that he must appear in an appropriate habiliment, the form of which descended from their fathers of remote antiquity? Whence their custom of this priest's making a yearly atonement, in or near the holy apartment of their temple?

Whence their three annual feasts, which well accord to the three great feasts in Israel?

Whence came their peculiar feast, in which a bone of the sacrifice may not be broken; and all that is prepared must be eaten; or burned before the next morning sun?

Whence a custom of their males appearing three times anrally before God at the temple? Who taught wild savages of the desert to maintain places of refuge from the avenger of blood; old, beloved, white towns ?"

Who taught them to keep and venerate a sacred ark, containing their most sacred things;

to be borne against their enemies by one purified by strict rites?-That no one but the sanctified keeper might look into this ark; and the enemy feeling the same reverence for it, as the friends?

Whence came the deep and extensive impression among these savage tribes, that the hollow of the thigh of no animal may be eaten?

Let the infidel inform how these savages (so long excluded from all intercourse with the religious or civilized world) came by the rite of circumcision? and some of them an idea of a Jubilee ?

Whence their idea of an old divine speech; that they must imitate their virtuous, ancestors, enforced by "flourishing upon a land flowing with milk and honey?"

Whence their notion of the ancient flood? and of the longevity of the ancients? also of the confusion of the language of man at building a high place? evidently meaning the scene at Babel.

How came these wild human herds of the desert by various Hebrew words, and phrases; and such phrases as accord with no other language on earth? See the table furnished, page 90.

Who taught them to sing, Halleluyah, Yobewah, Yah, Shilu Yohewah; and to make the sacred use they do of the syllables, which compose the names of God? singing them in their religious dances, and in their customs; thus ascribing all the praise to Yohewah? I ask not, who taught them the spirit or holiness of such religious forms? For probably they have little or no intelligent meaning. But whence have they brought down these traditional forms?

How came their reckoning of time so well to accord with that of ancient Israel?

Whence their tradition of twelve men, in preparing for a feast similar to the ancient feast of tabernacles; taking twelve poles, forming their booths; and their altar of twelve stones, on which no tool may pass; and here offering their twelve sacrifices? and some tribes proceeding by the number ten instead of twelve? indicating their tradition of the twelve tribes; and their subsequent ten, after the revolt.

Whence came their tradition of purifying themselves with bitter vegetables? also fasting, and purifying themselves, when going to war?

Who taught them that at death their beloved people sleep, and go to their fathers?

Whence their custom of washing and anoint-. ing their dead; and some of them of hiring mourners to bewail them; and of singing round the corpse (before they bury it) the syllables of Yah, Yohewah?

How came they by their tradition answering to the ancient Jewish separations of women?--also a tradition of taking their shoes from their feet, on solemn occasions?

Whence were some of them taught in deep mourning to lay their hand on their mouth, and their mouth in the dust ?

And whence came their tradition of their ancient father with his twelve sons, ruling over others? and the malconduct of these twelve: sons, till they lost their pre-eminence ?

Let it be remembered, it is not pretended that all the savages are in the practice of all these traditions. They are not. But it is contended that the whole of these things have been found among their different tribes in our continent, within a hundred years. A fragment of these Hebrew traditions has been found among one tribe; and

another fragment among another; and some of the most striking of these traditions have been found among various and very distant tribes; as has appeared in the recital from various authors, traders and travellers.

No account can be were derived from And hence in the

Let the unbeliever in revelation set himself to account for these events. given of them, but that they ancient revelation in Israel. outcast state of the ten tribes of Israel, (in their huge valley of dry bones, in this vast new world,) we find presented a volume of new evidence of the divinity of the Old Testament; and hence of the New; for the latter rests on the former, as a building rests on its foundation. If the one is divine; the other is divine; for both form a perfect whole.

We are assured by the chief apostle to the gentiles, that the restoration of the ancient people of God in the last days, when "all Israel shall be saved," shall be to the nations" as life from the dead;" Rom. xi. 15. Its new and demonstrative evidence of the glorious truth of revelation, will confound infidelity itself; and fill the world with light and glory. These Indian traditions may be viewed as beginning to exhibit to the world their quota of this new evidence.

The earthquake, at the time of our Savior's giv-` ing up of the ghost, which rent the rocks, may be said thus to have opened many mouths (perhaps over the face of the earth) tacitly to proclaim the event. It may be said in figure;" The stones cried-out!" (Luke xix. 40.) In our sub-' ject, we find a powerful corresponding evidence of the truth of revelation, extending through a wild continent, in savage traditions; which traditions must have been brought down from 725 years before the Christian era.