The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 10, October, 1878Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 10, October, 1878
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
The difference between _equal_ and _identical_ rights is well
illustrated by the action of the Georgia Central Railroad
officials. Travel between Macon and Savannah is so light that only
one passenger coach is run. By a partition this is divided into two
parts, furnished exactly alike, one for white and the other for
colored passengers. The colored end being nearly empty one day, a
white man took a seat, or rather _four_ seats, in it, upon which
the conductor told him that he was in the wrong end of the car, and
that the vice-president was very particular that no white persons
be allowed to ride in the apartment for colored people.
A similar arrangement formerly prevailed on the street-cars in
Mobile, and some of the old partitioned cars are still in use.
It is to be hoped that, in the course of human events, identical
rights on steam-cars will not be considered any worse than on horse
cars by the constituents of Georgia’s good Governor Colquitt.
AN INDIAN HYMN-BOOK.
We have just received a copy of the _Hymns in the Chinook Jargon
Language_, compiled by Rev. Mr. Eells, missionary of the American
Missionary Association. It is not a ponderous volume like those
in use in our American churches, with twelve or fifteen hundred
hymns, but a modest pamphlet of thirty pages, containing both the
Indian originals and the English translations. The tunes include,
among others, “Happy Land,” “Greenville,” “Bounding Billow,” “John
Brown,” and the “Hebrew Children.” The hymns are very simple, and
often repeat all but the first line. The translations show the
poverty of the language to convey religious ideas.
One hymn reads—
“Always Jesus is very strong,
So his Paper (the Bible) says.”
Another we give in full, and in both original and translation, as
part of the words of the Jargon will be seen to be English:
HEAVEN.
1. Kopa Saghalie konoway tillikums
Halo olo, halo sick,
Wake kliminwhit, halo solleks,
Halo pahtlum, halo cly.
_Chorus_—Jesus mitlite kopa Saghalie
Kunamoxt konoway tillikums kloshe.
2. Yahwa tillikums wake klahowya,
Wake sick tumtum, halo till,
Halo mimoluse, wake mesachie,
Wake polaklie, halo cole.—_Chorus._
3. Yahwa tillikums mitlite kwanesum,
Hiyu houses, hiyu sing;
Papa, mama, pe kloshe tenas;
Ovacut yaka chicamin pil.—_Chorus._
4. Jesus potlatch kopa siwash,
Spose mesika, hias kloshe,
Konoway iktas mesika tikegh,
Kopa Saghalie kwanesum.—_Chorus._
Tune, “_Greenville_.”
1. In Heaven all the people
Are not hungry, are not sick;
They do not tell lies, do not become angry;
They do not become drunk, do not cry.
Jesus lives in Heaven,
Together with all good people.
2. There the people are not poor,
Have no sorrow, are not tired;
They do not die, are not wicked;
There is no darkness, no cold.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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