kingdom, it is nevertheless presumed that he bears about him the marks of our common Lord and Master, exhibiting the most unequivocal proofs of his belonging to that sacred brotherhood in which there is "neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free." It has not been thought necessary on this occasion to alter those foreign appellations which were indispensable to the original design of this undertaking: nor was it judged advisable to omit those allusions to Indian customs and usages with which it abounds; since, if they add nothing to its embellishment, they will at least afford the European pilgrim an opportunity of comparing the reasonable services of Christianity with the superstitious vanities of heathenism. It may be proper here to state, that the story of the Pilgrim Bartholomew, as far as related by himself, presents the real history of a certain schoolmaster employed by the author and her friends in the instruction of native boys. Nor may it be amiss to add, that many of the facts and conversations introduced with relation to the Indian Pilgrim himself were taken from real life. THE INDIAN PILGRIM; OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE PILGRIM NAZAREENEE, (FORMERLY CALLED GOONAH PURIST, OR THE SLAVE OF SIN), FROM THE CITY OF THE WRATH OF GOD TO DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM. "In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed, then God openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction."-Job xxxiii. 15, 16. |