Proprietor.
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Difficulties Encountered by Early
Missionaries.
STRANGE INDIAN BELIEFS
Were Slow to Accept the New Religion
Attached to the Customs and Tra
ditions their Forefathers
Given to Idolatry
ol
The Revd
kin in
76, he says
advice and
tober last
the
Susquehanng
tedion
tedious
wilderues
mount
of
method | used
ments [ gave them, [ am per
means,
A\ their he;
against chris
hope, the God
measure
ealousies and pre:
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con.a
and | not but
grace was prepar
Truth as
It this may be the happy
shall
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LO receive the
not only rejoice in
consequence, |
my past
shall, I trust
and t
strumental to turn
abours and fatigues
ling to
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spent,” if nay thereby be
2:50 "be wil
»e un
them from darkness
to light, and from the power of Satan to
God.
I sha rAd a word or
respecting the i that attend
Christianizi hese ry
pagan
In the
with pr
account
behavior
The
worst
fans
the
take pa
4 . ‘
suade them
foreseeiny
verted t
foundation of a
It was not the same (i
who made the white copie” but another,
who commanded them to live by hunte
ing, &c., and not to ouform to the co
Hence
ed to become
toms of the white people
they are
they frequently
when
desir christians,
reply, that ‘they will
ed, and go to thei:
they And, if the
of Christ and his apostles be
mentioned, to prove the truth of Chris
tianity, they also mentioned sundry
miracles, which their fathers have told
them were anciently wrought among
the Indians, and which Satan makes
them believe were 50. They are much
attached to idolatry ; frequently making
live as their fathers lis
fathers when
miracles
die
feasts, which they eat in honor to some |
i
unknown beings, who they suppose,
speak to them in dreams: promising
them success in hunting, and other af-
airs, in case they will sacrific to them
They oftentimes also offer their sacrifices
to the spirits of the dead : who, they sup
pose, stand in need of favours from the
living, and vet are in such a state as
reward all the offices
And
to the
that they can well
of kindness that are shown them
they imp their calamities
f these sacrifices.
neglect
Furfhermore, they are much awed by
those among themselves, who are called
pow-wows,
power
who are supposed to have a
of enchanting, or poisoning them
to death, or at least in a very distressing
manner. And they apprehend it would
be their sad fate to be thus enchanted,
in case they should become Christians
Lastly, the manner of their living
likewise a great disadvantage t
dest being christianized. They
are almost continually roving from place
with some of
)¥ comsid
activity in
makes that a
onsequence
iaving out
the town and » ill be a large
amount 1e ! ing there in the
MINK Year ur good neigh
| that
they are
Saturday night Bernard B
Howard, and a
companion
He was tak
Ie rack
where he died about
norning
ng without re
NG bruise
bone
Toot His Ow
Must
rank Byer
three
feet
An in a hundred can
pro
* any tone upon it, much less extract
from its cavernou depth Byers
With
the
composition with all the fac
In this
his
Mier
Sim
rmerly Hot the great
difficult
ility of a man
instance, if
horn 3 execule most
playing a cornet,
Byers does not win horn, no
me else will do it
Reformed Church Reunion
The fifth of the Re.
formed church of Central Pennsylvania
will be held at Island park, near Sun
bury, Thursday, July 2:
angual reunion
] -— ——
|
Trinity M. BE, congregation, of Lock
| Haven, will go to Hecla Friday, 26th.
Prominent |
Reformed ministers will deliver addresses |
and Fisher's orchestra will render music, |
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BELLEFONTE
CENTRE COUNTY
CROP REPORT
PA
Harvests Prevailed in
Most
Abundant
Sections.
WHEAT AND CORN ARE GOOD
Apples will be Scarce
last Spring Injured
Potatoes and
Wet Weather
Some Products
Abundant
Berries and Small
Fruit
This week we
present a
interest
be of specia
f the
t headed very ot
And in of n straw, ait) Ki Some farme
w have a good crop. Hay
Deat [ 4
Farmers w not
this wint«
The hay er
AN
the Ying Above : Average yield
od to
ng the
be compe feed straw
ras they did dur Al winter
months, Corn The greater part of the or wp
has a good and looks
med It was flooded ar dis
Small, but a fair crop 1» expected if not too dry
during August Karly planted po
tatoes yield above the AVErage, but the ate
planted will do for seed for next year: the
Potatoes were damaged some by the bugs and
those in swamps were flooded, and rotted after
being planted. Fruit
plenty, as they still continue to drop,
made good growth color
well: In some low
Potatoes
Plums
THURSDAY,
| will have an immense vie
Apples will not be so |
mop
JULY
Nittany valley :
AN
MARION
' this
hay
AY
cTrrions
‘ Aches are
ries are plent
PLEASANT GAY
Om ad int of so mueh dry weather last « ¥
mer. frst clase Crops Are scarce To glance
wheat flelds we find the wheat not
very favorable sam. Cole ent about the best
AL this place, The bay erop In some places te
very good, while In others not so good, J. ¢
Mulfinger cutting about the best. The
crop will be fair. The Indieations ATE that we
i of potatos, both
over the
his
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SHORT
What Transpired Worthy of | \
VARIETY OF
COUNTY NEWS
[tems of Interest Gathered From
All
Sections.
AND THE POINT
Men
tion Past We News From
Hasty Read
the
Over the County
\ Ne Ww Dep
ers
€ WAS sir
knocked off his reaper
recovered
Mc
onsiderably
horses were stunned but after
alittle The farms of Roh elland
1 Fergus Potter suffered
Harris, Mrs. Hester Long was uncon.
te a while from a bolt of
Mrs
out for berries and was return
scious qu ght.
ning that struck her home
had been
ing home when a walbul tree nearby
Was struck. She was knocked over by
the shock, but soon recovered. In Gregx |
A cow belonging to Adam Zerby, tenant
on one of the Allison farms, was killed
| by the lightning and found dead in the
i
pasture,
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1 go down, as we ever
id had respect
was the consistency akin
smooth as a whistle
She Wasn't Taking Any
board received the
following letter the other day from one
of the teachers I would like to have
the refusal of the school as long as you
are willing to bold it for me, though I
can’t say positively that I will not teach,
nor positively that I will, If I am mar.
ried, as I think I will be, of jcourse I
will not want the school. But you know
the old story about many a slip, and I
would hate to be out of a job as well as
the other,
Chance,
A Kansas schoo!