58 GENEBRARD. He povres gens? ceulx la' meurent de fain: He que fait Dieu ? il est bien aise es Cieulx: He quoy! dort-il? l'en n'en fait pis ne mieulx. Es Monasteres, en lieu de Librairie, saint Pere de Romme, peuvent faire et acomplir leurs pelerinages et voyages par toute la crestiente, la ou leur devotion sera, ou saint sepulcre, on ailleurs ou ilz auront voue a aller en pelerinaige, soit en temps de guerre, de paix ou de trefves, quelque temps quil soit. Et en ce cas cy sont privilegiez comme gens deglise, lequel privilege les sainctz peres de Romme leur ont Et aux perches ou estoient veultz et flam- acorde le temps passe a la reverence et beaulx, L'en y juche maintenant les oyseaulx : conte: Et leurs Obitz? tant que l'argent se monte: Et si ont honte de porter leurs sourpliz: souers D'or et d'argent, flacons, potz, drasouers; He qu'ont les povres? ilz ont les trenchouers, Qui demeurent du pain dessus la table; [Les privileges que droit donne aux pelerins.] "POUR ce que gens seculiers ne scevent pas les privileges que droit donne aux pelerins quant ilz vont en pelerinaige travaillans leurs corps en contemplation et reverence des sainctz et sainctes ou ilz vont, il me plaist de traicter et dire aulcune chose sur le fait et condition de leur pelerinaige. Et disons que tous pelerins de quelque pays et royaulme chrestien quilz soient, sont en especial en sauvegarde du honneur de Dieu et des sainctz et des sainctes dont ilz sont pelerins. Et sans faulte toute personne qui met la main sur pelerin ou pelerine, il va contre lordonnance et sauvegarde du pape (en laquelle ilz sont tous et toutes comme jay dit), et pechent mortellemen, et encourent la sentence dexcommuniement. Item ilz ont encores une autre prerogative et privilege, que en quelque part quilz passent en faisant leur pelerinaige, soit en allant, ou en venant, ilz ne doivent payer aucun passage ou autres treuages."—L'Arbre des Batailles, cap. 123. [Divers Sects.] "THERE are at this day in this your majesty's realm, four known religions, and the professors thereof distinct both in name spirit and doctrine; that is to say, the Catholicks, the Protestants, the Puritans, and the Householders of Love, besides all other petty sects, newly born, and yet grovelling on the ground."-Brief Discourse why Catholiques refuse to go to Church. 1580. [Romish Fraud.] "A.D. 1374. In the Valley of Jehosaphat, near Jerusalem, they found in a sepulchre full of earth, a whole body, with a long beard, under whose head was a stone with this inscription in Hebrew, I Seth, the third born son of Adam, believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God, and in his mother, who are to proceed from my loins."" BERNAL DIAZ-IZAAC WALTON. -GENEBRARD, in Chronol. 1. 31, c. 35. quoted by Bernino. [Gomara's heretical Doubts as to the Appearance of the Apostles Santiago and St. Pedro.] 59 [Charles I.'s Repentance for Strafford's Death and abolishing Episcopacy in Scotland.] "CHARLES I. in his troubles" told Dr. then waited with him, "That the rememSanderson and Morley, or one of them that brance of two errors did much afflict him, which were, his assent to the earl of Strafford's death, and the abolishing episcopacy in Scotland; and that if God ever restored him to be in peaceable possession of his crown, he would demonstrate his repentance by a public confession and voluntary penance" (I think barefoot) " from the Tower of London, or Whitehall, to St. Paul's Church, and desire the people to intercede with God for his pardon." I am sure one of them that told it me, lives still, and will witness it.-IZAAC WALTON's Life of Bishop Sanderson. "HERE it is that Gomara says that Francisco de Morla rode forward on a dappled grey horse, before Cortes and the cavalry came up, and that the Apostle Santiago or St. Peter was there. I must say that all our works and victories are by the hand of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that in this battle for each of us there were so many Indians that they could have covered us with handfuls of earth, if it had not been that the great mercy of God helped us in every thing. And it may be that he of whom Gomara speaks was the glorious Apostle Santiago or St. Pedro, and I as a sinner was not worthy to see him, but he whom I then saw there and knew was Francisco de Morla on a chesnut horse, who came up with Cortes; and it seems to me that now while I am writing this, the whole war is represented before these sinful eyes, just in the manner as we then went through it. And though I as an unworthy sinner did not deserve to see either of those glorious Apostles, there were in our company above four hundred soldiers, and Cortes and many other knights, and it would have been talked of, and testified, and they would have made a Church, and when they peopled the town it would have been called Santiago de la Vitoria, or St. Pedro de la Vitoria, as it is now called S. Maria de la Vitoria. And if it was as Gomara says, bad Christians must we have been, when our Lord God sent us his holy Apostles, French Missionaries in Canada. not to acknowledge his great mercy, and “THEY habituated themselves to venerate that Church daily. And would to savage life, and naturalised themselves to God it had been as the chronicler says! the savage manners, and by thus becoming but till I read his chronicle I never heard dependent, as it were, on the natives, they such a thing from any of the who were there.”—BERNAL DIAZ, conquerors 22. [Isaak Walton's Thanksgiving for not belong- cause in a sad discourse with Dr. Sanderson, acquired their contempt, rather If they had been quainted with human nature the than their as as well acthey were 60 MACKENZIE-WESLEY - HERRERA. with the articles of their faith, they would have known that the uncultivated mind of an Indian must be disposed by much preparatory method and instruction to receive the revealed truths of christianity, to act under its sanctions, and be impelled to good by the hope of its reward, or turned from evil by the fear of its punishments. They should have begun their work by teaching some of those useful arts which are the inlets of knowledge, and lead the mind by degrees to objects of higher comprehension. Agriculture so formed to fix and combine society, and so preparatory to objects of superior consideration, should have been the first thing introduced among a savage people; it attaches the wandering tribe to that spot where it adds so much to their comforts, while it gives them a sense of property and of lasting possession, instead of the uncertain hopes of the chase, and the fugitive produce of uncultivated wilds. Such were the means by which the forests of Paraguay were converted into a scene of abundant cultivation."-MACKENZIE'S Tra vels. [Wesley and the Creek Indians.] "He that is above," said WESLEY to the Creek Indians," will not teach you, unless you avoid what you already know is not good." One of the Indians answered, "I believe that. He will not teach us while our hearts are not white. Our men do what they know is not good; they kill their own children. And our women do what they know is not good; they kill the child before it is born. Therefore, He that is above does not send us the good book."— WESLEY'S Journal, No. 1, p. 37. [Romish Frauds.] "THE Dominicans in Mexico called Purgatory Little Hell to make it comprehensible by the Indians, Infierno Chiquito."— Padila 83. "THE Dominican habit is the Virgin Mary's taste, she gave the pattern to St. Reginald — and she explained its mystic meaning-the white emblematical of spiritual purity, the black of repentance in the body."-Ibid. p. 475. "THE Priests used to reward the Indians who discovered an Idol. Father Jordan de Santa Catalina, after one of his successful searches saw an Indian, whom he had just rewarded for bringing him an idol, busy in making another-which the poor fellow said was to be ready for the father next time." -Ibid. p. 643. 66 WHEN first the Mexicans saw a sambenito they were so pleased with it that they made some in imitation and sold about the streets."-Ibid. p. 643. [Herrera on the Conversion of the Indians.] "HERRERA has a curious passage concerning the conversion of the Indians. Columbus, he says, being wrecked on the Island of Hayti,' juzgò que Dios nuestro Señor, avia permitido la perdida de la nao, para que se hiziesse assiento alli, y se comencasse por aquella Isla la predicacion y conocimiento de su santissimo nombre, el qual es muchas vezes su voluntad que no se estrenda por amor de su servicio, y caridad de los proximos, sino tambien por el premio que los hombres piensan aver en este mundo, y en el otro; porque no es de creer que ninguna nacion del mundo emprendiera los trabajos a que el Almirante y sus Castellanos se pusieron en negocio tan dudoso y peligroso, sino fuera con esperança de algun premio, el qual ha llevado despues adelante la continuacion desta su santa obra; y quiso Dios hazer con los Indios y los Castellanos, como un padre que quiere casar una hija muy fea, suple esta falta con el dote, porque quando las Indias no fueran tierras de tanta riqueza, nadie se pusiera a padecer los trabajos que adelante se diran, &c.'”—1. 1. 18. PERAMAS-LANGSDORFF. [Cruelties inflicted on the Negroes at Cay enne,—and apologetic Reasoning.] 61 There happened not know what it means. however to be a Dominican visiting in the house, and young Vergara when his repe "By the French laws, if a negro at Cay-tition was over, asked what the meaning of 6 enne ran away, and the master denounced him to the Greffe, he was on being retaken to have his ears cut off, and be burnt on the back with a fleur-de-lis! for the second offence to be hamstrung! and hanged for the third. On ne scauroit doutes, says P. Fauque the Jesuit, que la severité de ces loix n'en retienne le plus grand nombre dans le devoir. Where did he find his notions of duty? He says also, ‘il n'y a guere d'esperance pour le salut d' un negre qui meurt dans son marronnage.' Lettres Edifiantes, tom. 8, pp. 8, 10, edition 1781. His arguments when he got among the Marroons are curious enough. Souvenez-vous, mes chers enfans, que quoique vous soyez esclaves, vous êtes cependant Chrétiens comme vos Maitres! Quel malheur pour vous si, après avoir été les esclaves des hommes en ce monde et dans le temps, vous deveniez les esclaves du demon pendant toute l'éternité. Ce malheur pourtant vous arrivera infailliblement, si vous ne vous rangez pas à votre devoir, puisque vous êtes dans un etat habituel de damnation, car, sans parler du tort que vous faites à vos maîtres en les privant de votre travail, vous n'entendez point le messe les jours saints: vous n'approchez point des Sacramens; vous vivez dans le concubinage, n' etant pas mariés devant vos legitimes Pasteurs.' " p. 20. How triumphantly might the negro have replied! [Peramas' instructive Story on the Seventh Commandment.] "PERAMAS relates an odd and instructive story of Vergara in his childhood. Being piously disposed and born of pious parents, he was taught to give an account of the sermons which he heard. In thus repeating the substance of a discourse upon the Commandments, when the boy came to the seventh, Thou shalt not commit adultery, he said, we must pass over this for I do this commandment was. The friar told him it was that he must never put his fingers into a kettle of boiling water. Little as the danger appeared to be of leading him into temptation by such an explanation, the very next morning he dipt his hand into the boiling water, and immediately danced about the room exclaiming, Oh dear! Oh dear! I've committed adultery, I've committed adultery ! ”—p. 2. [Extremes meet:-Protestant Mission Persecution.] "NOTWITHSTANDING they are much more free from cares in their natural state, an irresistable desire of freedom sometimes breaks out in individuals. This may probably be referred to the national character. Their attachment to a wandering life, their love of alternate exercise in fishing and hunting, and entire indolence, seem in their eyes to overbalance all the advantages they enjoy at the mission, which to us appear very great: the consequence is, that every now and then attempts at escape are made. On such occasions, no sooner is any one missed, than search is immediately made after him, and as it is always known to what tribe the fugitive belongs, and on account of the enmity which subsists among the different tribes, he can never take refuge in any other, (a circumstance which perhaps he scarcely thought of beforehand), it is scarcely possible for him to evade the researches of those who are sent in pursuit of him. He is almost always brought back again to the mission, where he is bastinadoed, and an iron rod of a foot or a foot and a half long, and an inch in diameter, is fastened to one of his feet: this has the double use of preventing him from repeating the attempt, and of frightening others from imitating him." — LANGSDORFF, vol. 1, p. 171. New California. 62 GUMILLA HERRERA-RANDOLPH. [Bloody Religion of the Mexicans.] "A SPANIARD observing a Mexican not long after the conquest remarkably punctual in his attendance at mass, asked him how it was that he could so thoroughly have forsaken the belief in which he had been bred up. The Mexican's reply is remarkable, ‘The religion of our fathers,' said he, 'was so bloody and so cruel, and burthened us so grievously, that to rid ourselves of such a yoke we should gladly have recourse not merely to your law which is so holy a one, but any other whatsoever.'" GUMILLA, C. 17. [Their Predisposition thereby to receive the Christian Faith.] "No nations in the Indies," says HERRERA (5. 4. 7), “have received the Gospel better than those who had been most subordinate to their Lords, and had laboured under the greatest burdens of tribute and of diabolical ceremonies. Thus the dominions of the kings of Mexico and of the Ingas have advanced the most in Christianity, and there is least difficulty there both in spiritual and temporal government, for the insufferable yoke of the laws of the devil had wearied them, and that of Christ therefore appeared to them just and easy; and the difficulty of believing such high mysteries was facilitated because the devil had taught them things still more difficult." This is not the less true because it is expressed in mythological language: and it would prove as true in Asia, as it did in America. me began to sing one of my old country songs, It is time to go home;-when Bess say to me- -Cambo why you sing so for?— Me say, Me no sick, me no sorry, why me no sing? Bess say you better pray to your blessed Lord and massa to have massy on your soul. Me look round, me look up, me see no one to pray to: but de words sound in my ears, better pray to your Lord and massa. By 'm bye me feel bad, sun shine sorry, birds sing sorry, laun look sorry; but Cambo sorrier dan em all. Den me cry out, massy, massy Lord! on poor Cambo! By 'm bye water come in my eyes, and glad come in my heart. Den sun look gay, woods look gay, birds sing gay, laun look gay, but poor Cambo gladder dan em all. Me love my massa some: me want to love him more.'"-Evangelical Magazine, October 1812, p. 389. [Simoniacal Corruptions.] "WILL you buy any parsonages, vicarages, deaneries or prebendaries ?" says RANDOLPH's Pedlar, in the Shew; "The price of one is his lordship's crackt chambermaid; the other is the reserving of his worship's tithes, or you may buy the knight's horse three hundred pounds too dear, who, to make you amends in the bargain, will draw you on fairly to a vicarage. There be many tricks; but the downright way is three years purchase. Come, bring in your coin! Livings are majori in pretio than in the days of doomsday book: you must give presents for your presentations: there may be several means for your institutions, but this is the only way to Induction that ever I knew." [The Negro's Call to Prayer.] "CAMBO, a negro in one of the southern states of America, being desired to give some account of his conversion, said, 'After me was brought here and sold as a slave, as me and Bess were working in de field, [Military Preaching.] "WHEN Lord George Germains commanded the camp near Brompton, and at Chatham in 1757, Whitfield went to Chatham, sent his respects by Captain Smith to his lordship, and requested permission to |