New Witnesses for God (Volume 3 of 3)Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Religion
New Witnesses for God (Volume 3 of 3)
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Book of Mormon; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
scriptural analogies. Other Hebrew analogies Lord Kingsborough
finds in America, in the dress, insignia, and duties of priests;
in innumerable superstitions concerning dreams, apparitions,
eclipses, and other more common-place events; in certain festivals
for rain; in burial and mourning ceremonies; in the diseases most
common among the people; in certain regularly observed festivals;
in the dress of certain nations; in established laws; in physical
features; in architecture; in various minor observances, such as
offering water to a stranger that he might wash his feet, eating
dust in token of humility, anointing with oil, and so forth; in
the sacrifice of prisoners; in manner and style of oratory; in
the stories of giants; in respect paid to God's name; in games
of chance; in marriage relations; in childbirth ceremonies; in
religious ideas of all sorts; in respect paid to kings; in uses of
metals; in treatment of criminals, and punishment of crimes; in
charitable practices; in social customs; and in a vast number of
other particulars. [4]
III.
_Adair's Evidences._
Following is the summary of Adair's evidences and arguments:
The Israelites were divided into tribes and had chiefs over them,
so the Indians divided themselves: each tribe forming a little
community within the nation. And as the nation hath its particular
symbol, so from nation to nation among them we shall not find one
individual who doth not distinguish himself by his family name.
Every town has a state house or synedrion, the same as the Jewish
Sanhedrim, where almost every night the head men meet to discuss
public business. The Hebrew nation were ordered to worship Jehovah
the true and living God, who by the Indians is styled Yohewah. The
ancient heathens, it is well known worshiped a plurality of gods:
but these American Indians pay their religious devoir to Loak
Ishtohoollo Aba, The Great Beneficent Supreme Holy Spirit of Fire.
They do not pay the least perceptible adoration to images. Their
ceremonies in their religious worship accord more nearly with the
Mosaic institutions, which could not be if they were of heathen
descent. * * * * * Their opinion that God chose them out of all the
rest of mankind as his peculiar and beloved people, fills both the
white Jew and the red American, with that steady hatred against
all the world, which renders them hated and despised by all. We
have abundant evidence of the Jews believing in the ministration
of angels, during the Old Testament dispensation, their frequent
appearances and their services on earth, are recorded in the
oracles, which the Jews themselves receive as given by divine
inspiration, and St. Paul in his epistle addressed to the Hebrews
speaks of it as their general opinion that "angels are ministering
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