4. Viewing the aborigines of America as the outcast tribes of Israel; an interesting view is given of same prophetic passages, which appear nearly connected with their restoration.

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The voice, which restores Israel, is heard in the vast wilderness of America, a literal wilderness of thousands of miles, where the dry bones of the outcasts of Israel have for thousands of years been scattered. The voice crying in the wilderness has a special appropriation to these Hebrews. As it bad a kind of literal fulfilment in the preaching of the forerunner John, fora short time in the wilderness of Judea; so it is to have a kind of literal fulfilment, upon a much greater scale, in the missions, which shall recover the ten tribes from the vast wilderness of America.

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As tie wilderness of Judea in a small degree rejoiced and blossomed as the rose, when John the Baptist performed his ministry i it; so the wilderness and solitary place of our vast continent, containing the lost tribes of the house of Israel, will, on a most enlarged scale, rejoice and blossom as the rose, when the long lost tribes shall be found there, and shall be gathered to Zion.

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5. If it be a fact that the native Americans are the tribes of Israel, new evidence is hence furnished of the divinity of our holy scriptures. A new field of evidence is here opened from a race of men, “outcast”? from all civil society for 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 Goliath. 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 Goliath, 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 a a prince over them?

Whence came the idea among the 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? God was the God of Israel, and of no other nation during their commonwealth. “I entered into covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine.”

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Who taught them to sing, Halleluyah, Yohewah, 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?

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Let the unbeliever in revelation set himself to account for these events. No account can be given of them, but that they were derived from ancient revelation in Israel. And hence in the outcast state of the ten tribes of Israel.