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Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)

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have your reward, for God will reward you. I give my kind love to all thy friends, and tell them that the great &; good Spirit is on its way to the dark corners of the Earth -- When my dear Friend? When will that happy day appear? When the Nations will learn War no more; for then Lion will arise and travel, and bring forth, She will bring forth. So farewell from thy unknown friend Gracy Crosby 6thAn address from Joseph Clark to Indians When the great and good Spirit made the first Man and Woman, He placed them in the Garden of Eden and com-manded them to dress it -- Thus we learn that the Great and Wise Author of all good, intended Man should labour from the beginning of the Creation; and we are further ins-tructed from the scriptures of Truth, that the Lord’s chosen Servants in every age were those that laboured For Moses was in a particular manner called of the Most High, while he was engaged keeping his Father in Law’s sheep, as was also Elizher the Prophet, when he was ploughing with twelve yoke of Oxen, and Paul, that eminent Apostle informs us that he laboured with his hands that he might support himself. But above all these test-imonies my Brothers liken be obedient to the Command and imitate the example of Christ, the Great Good Spirit, who had all power in Heaven and Earth; and once in a miracu-lous manner fed five thousand Men besides Women and Children, with only two loaves, and five fish -- and not withstanding afterwards gave this special Command to gather fragments that nothing should be lost - How clearly and fully this shews poor frail Man the constant necessity of being careful of the good and things that an all wise Providence