scorn and derision all the day? He entreated her to sit down upon a couch by him, and he would give her an account of what he had done, and tell her the story of his whole life. He went over the story, not without great affection and many tears; the flood-gates of which had been opened in the woods. And ever and anon, "through grace, God did so and so for me." When he had told her his story, she asked him, what he meant by those words, so often used in the relation, "Through grace?" and then asked him, if he thought there was no grace for her, who was so wretched a stranger to God? Yes, my dear, said he, there is grace for thee; that I have been praying for, this day, in the woods. And God hath heard my prayer, and seen my tears, and let us now go together to him about it. Then did

they kneel down by the couch-side, and he prayed: and such weeping and supplication there was on both sides, that when they were called down to supper, they had hardly eyes to see with, so swelled were they with weeping. At supper the bride's father (according to his custom) swore. The bride immediately said; "Father, I beseech you swear not." At which the bridegroom's father, in a great rage, rose from table: what, says he, is the devil in him! hath he made his wife a Puritan already? and swore bitterly, that he would rather set fire (with his own hands) to the four corners of his new-built house, than ever he should enjoy it. Accordingly he made his will, gave his son (when he should die) ten pounds to cut off his claim; and gave the estate to some others, of whom Dr. Reeves was one. Not long after, he died. Dr. Reeves sent for the gentleman, paid him his ten pounds, told him he had been a rebellious son, and disobliged his father, and might thank himself.— He received the ten pounds and meekly departed. His wife (the match was so huddled up) had no portion promised, at least that he knew of, who relied on his father. And she was also deserted by her friends: but having two hundred pounds in her own hands, that had been given her by a grandmother, they took and stocked a farm in Sussex. There Mr. Knight had often been and seen her, who had been highly bred, in her red waistcoat milking her cows. She was now become the great comforter and encourager of her husband. God, said she, hath bad mercy on me, and any pains-taking is pleasant to me. There they lived with much comfort, and had the blessing of marriage, divers children.

After three years, he was met on the road, in Kent, by oue of the tenants of the estate, and saluted by the name of landlord; alas! said he, I am none of your landlord; yes, you are, said he; I know more than you do of the settlement; your father, though a cunning lawyer, with all his wit, could not alie

towns. It is not within the memory of the oldest people, that blood was ever shed in them; although they often force persons from them, and put them elsewhere to death." Who can read this, and not be satisfied of the origin of this Indian tradition?

The well known trait of Indian character, that they will pursue one who has killed any of their friends, ever so far, and ever so long, as an avenger of the bloodshed, thus lies clearly open to view. It originated the permission given to an avenger of blood in the commonwealth of Israel; and is found in such a degree, probably, in no other nation.

12. Other Indian rites, and various other considerations, go to evince the fact, that this people are the ten tribes of Israel. Further details are given, and might be enlarged upon; as, religious separations of Indian females, almost exactly answering to the law in ancient Israel; their beginning the year as did Israel, with the new moon after the vernal equinox; their special attention paid to new moons, as was paid in Israel; their green corn moon, the most lovely of all, even as Israel had their beloved month Abib, which signifies an ear of green corn; their Jubilee declared to have been observed by some of the natives: "Melvenda and Acasta both affirm, that the natives keep a Ju bilee according to the usage in Israel." The testimony of Edwards, in his "West Indies," that the striking uniformity of the prejudices and customs of the Caribbee Indians, to the practices of the Jews, has not escaped the notice of historians,-as Gumella, Du Tertre and others;" and the various predictions of the final restoration of Israel, bringing them from the ends of the earth, from the west, and (as one translates it)" from the going down of the sun." These things open fruitful sources of evidence.

But I have more than equalled my designed limits. It is again asked, is it possible to find another people on earth exhibiting an equal degree of evidence of their being the ten tribes of Israel? Can another people on earth be found exhibiting one sixth part of the evidence adduced in favor of the American natives? We expect no new revelation, nor miracles wrought, to inform who are the ten tribes of Israel. Here is just such evidence as we should rationally look for; but six times as much of it, as we should dare to have expected, after a lapse of 2,500 years, with a people without letters. Our aborigines are essentially distinguished from all other pagans on earth, in the uniform belief of most of them of one God; and their freedom from false gods; as well as in many other striking things, which appear in their history.

How prone have been mankind, in all ages, to idolatry.

Hundreds of thousands of false gods, of every foolish description, have existed in the bewildered imaginations of men destitute of revelation. But the knowledge of the true God was renounced. 66 As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up," to almost every description of idolatry. How early did the world (in several centuries after the flood) go off to gross idolatry, even under the instructions of the patriarchs, and so soon after the terrible admonition of the flood! The natives of one of the greatest islands of the eastern ocean are so depraved, that it has not been known that they had the least idea of any Supreme Being. How prone were the Jews and Israel, in ancient times, even under all their rich advantages, to unite in the idolatries of their heathen neighbours!

But the 70 years captivity of the Jews in Babylon, cured them utterly of idolatry, from that day to this. While they have been dispersed, and been infidels relative to Jesus Christ; they have been firm believers in the Old Testament, and in the one God of Abraham. It is analogous with this to expect, that the ten tribes (wherever they are) would be cured, as well as the Jews, of their gross idolatry, and would be kept during their long outcast state, in a situation somewhat resembling that of the Jews, in their speculation concerning God. Such has been the case with the natives of this continent, at least to as great a degree as could be without a bible or letters; and such has been the case with no other people on earth! Nothing but the very special power and mercy of God, could have kept these natives in this traditional habit of acknowledging the one only living and true God, as they have done. While they have been dead to the life of religion, as a valley of dry bones; yet they have strangely been kept from acknowledging any other God but Jehovah, the Great Spirit, who made them and all things.

And light, in these last days of wonders, (when the time for the restoration of Israel and Judah is drawing near) has been breaking out and accumulating on this subject, to exhibit this origin of the American natives. It is ascertained in the "Star in the West," that Spaniards, Portuguese, French, English, Jews, and Christians, men of learning, and the illiterate, and sea-faring men ; all have united in the statements of facts, which go to indicate that these Indians are the descendants of Israel! Mr. M'Kenzie has travelled from the Atlantic very far to the north-west; and some of his statements of facts go to the same point. Various of the European visitants to this continent, early after it was known to the civilized world, expressed their surprise on finding among the natives things which bore such a resemblance to the history of ancient Israel. What account can

be given of all this, but that here are the very ten tribes?— These tribes must be somewhere on earth. Where are they? How can they be known? Whence came our native Americans? What other account can be given of their traditions, their language, Hebrew words and phrases, (the radical language of their tribes) and the broken fragments of the ancient economy of Israel running through so many of them? It would be far wilder and more difficult to account for these things on any other principle, than to say we have evidence that is satisfactory, of having found at last, the very valley of the dry bones of the house of Israel! The facts stated of them, must on every other principle, appear most unaccountable, not to say miraculous.

Further Remarks on the foregoing Subject.

If any are still disposed to doubt the doctrine advanced in the preceding remarks, on account of the dark complexion of the savages, will do well to recollect, that a majority of mankind are dark in complexion. The Asiatic nations are invariably such. Abraham, the head, and prince of the Jewish nation, was an Assyrian. The Jews in that country are of the olive colour-in France and Turkey they are brown-in Spain and Portugal swarthy. They are tawny in Egypt and Arabia -in Abyssinia they are as dark as the native Indians. Buchannan, in his researches in Asia, tells us, in that country he found several thousand of Jews whom he calls black Jews. These facts, it is believed, are sufficient to remove all doubt arising from the circumstance of the natives being swarthy, and prepares the mind to recognize the wandering tribes of the Western, Northern and Southern regions, as lineally descended from the royal house of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.

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A REMARKABLE NARRATIVE.

The following is a pleasing account of incidents which befel Mr. Studly, who would not depart from his Religious integrity, for which it seems a watchful Providence eventually rewarded him, even in this life.

Mr. STUDLY's father was a lawyer in Kent, of about 4007. a year. He was a great enemy to the power of religion, and a hater of those that were then called Puritans.

His son in his

youth, seemed to follow the same steps, till the Lord called him

home in the following manner. The young man was at London, and being drunk one night, as he was going towards his lodgings, fell into a cellar, and in the fall was seized with horror, and thought he fell into hell. It pleased God he took little harm by the fall, but lay there some hours, still thinking he was in hell.

After he was come to himself, and was got home into Kent, he betook himself to read and study the scriptures, and to much prayer. At length, his father perceived this; and fearing he would turn Puritan, dealt roughly with him, and made him dress his horses, which he humbly and willingly submitted to. When his father perceived he sat up late at night, reading his bible, he denied him candle-light, but being allowed a fire in his chamber, he was wont to lie along and read by the fire light. While he was dressing his father's horses, and reading by the fire, he had great comforts from the Lord. His father seeing these means ineffectual, resolved to send him to France, that by the airiness of that country he might be cured. He went, and being at his own disposal, placed himself in the house of a pious protestant minister; and between them, after they were acquainted, there grew great endearment. He made great progress in speaking the language; and soon after, he had orders to return home. The father intreating it, the landlord, with whom he had sojourned, came into England with him, and both were made very welcome at his father's house. But at last the father finding the French gentleman and his son at prayers together, paid him what was due to him, and sent him away.

Then his father having an interest in a great lady at Whitehall, prevailed with her to take his son for her gentleman. He thought by a court-life to drive away his melancholy (as he called his son's seriousness.) The lady had many servants; some of whom were given to swearing, whom this young gentleman reproved, with that prudence and gravity, that sin fell down before him. And if any of the servants had been ill employed, and had heard him coming, they would say, "Stop! Mr. Studly is coming." After a year's time, his father waited upon the lady, to inquire of his son's carriage. She answered she was glad she had seen his son's face, he had wrought a mighty reformation in her family. She that had formerly been troubled with unruly servants, by his prudent carriage was now as quiet in her house as if she had lived in a private family in the country. At this, the father stormed, "What, will he make Puritans in Whitehall ?" He told the lady that was no place for him, he would take him with him, which, to her trouble, he did.

When he had him at home in Kent, as his last refuge, he