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not zealous for any doctrine which did hot affect the heart . Of the moral perfections of the Deity he had the purest and most exalted ideas ; on these was chiefly founded
his system of religion , and ^ these together with his own benevolent nature , led him to embrace so warmly , his favourite doctrine of the final salvation of all the
human race , and indeed , the gradual rise and perfectability of all treated existence . He preached many sermons on this doctrine , which he defended both in the pulpit' and in conversation , with a zeal and enthusiasm , which his congregation and his friends cannot but well remember . He had
great copiousness in prayer , and has more than once upon an emergency delivered a sermon extern . porally with ease and fluency He has preached occasionally in French , and composed in both languages with equal correctness . Nothing Prevented him from
being a popular preacher , but the weakness of his voice , and a fo-
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
sir , Bath , Dec . ^ 6 , 1808 . of the Seneca nation , or as some I send you an account of a call them , the Padowagas . They Meeting or Talk of Indians , held came thither fFom the west of the last year , in the back Country of Qhio , to deliver a message from America , ( 100 miles beyond the the prophet Skanyadario . * The falls of Niagara ) by a deputation relater of it is Teyonitihokenra
-* Skanyadario is esteemed a prophet by the Indian nations , and his messages arc as much regarded by them , " as Balaam by the Canaanitcs , Elfcha by the Jews , tir Confut-se by the Chinese . .
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reign accent , which he could never entirely get riri of . These confined'him -t 6 small congrega - tions , which damped his itrdoury and gave rise to depressing feelings ; fox tie parsed through the world
without courting it , and nev ^ r , perhaps , was in ^ situation which gave his talents fall play . Hfc latter dayS were oppressed by » morbid affection of his spirits , in
a great degree hereditary , which came gradually upon him , arid closed the scene of his earthly usefulness ; yet in the midst of the irritation it occasioned , the kindness of his nature broke forth .
and some' of his last act ^ were acts of benevolence . He will long be remembered by his little flock , and by the circle of his
society , with cordial affection . Of the grief of his nearest connection , who , for more than thirty years , experienced from him the most tender and delicate attach ment ^ it is not the business of this memoir to speak .
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Original Account of a Meeting ok Talk of Indians . 709
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ORIGINAL ACCOUNT OF A MEETING OR TALK OF INDIANS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/17/
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