. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. essand improvement they reach a point at which wecan communicate with them in a language be- INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 45 tween which, and their old ideas there is no asso-ciation. Without this the work of mental amalga-mation will never go on. The parent will perpe-tuate in his child all his transatlantic errors, politi-cal religious, social, and ecclesiastical. For long,long generations they will be as French, as Ger-man, as Swedish as the people they left in theirfatherland. The necessity to learn our language o
. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. essand improvement they reach a point at which wecan communicate with them in a language be- INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 45 tween which, and their old ideas there is no asso-ciation. Without this the work of mental amalga-mation will never go on. The parent will perpe-tuate in his child all his transatlantic errors, politi-cal religious, social, and ecclesiastical. For long,long generations they will be as French, as Ger-man, as Swedish as the people they left in theirfatherland. The necessity to learn our language ought to bethrown upon them by refusing to translate ourlaws or to print a paper in their our Church movements, we should rely far moreupon Protestant Christian schools for the risinggeneration, than upon the translation of the Bibleand preaching to the adults. This subject isdelicate in its relation, but it is worthy of discus-sion. Another time I may touch it; at present topursue it is to wander. In my next, I give someaccount of my Indian 46 INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. LETTER V. JAMES MHENRY—INDIANS IN COUNCIL CHILI MiNTOSH PREACHING TO THE INDIANS ALTAR-WORK — CONVER-SIONS AMONG THEM. I must close my account of this interestingIndian Mission Conference. Nothing special oc-curred during the session save the admission intothe travelling connection of James McHenry—better known in Georgia and Alabama as JimHenry—the hero of the Creek war in 1836. Thelion has become a lamb—the brave a war-whoop is hushed: the midnight foray iswith the past: the Bible and the Hymn Book fillthe hands that once grasped the torch and toma-hawk. The bold, valiant savage, who spreadconsternation among the peaceful settlements oneither side of the Chattahoochee, now travels acircuit, preaching peace on earth, good-will to Lord make him an apostle to his people! Iunderstand that any allusion to his past historypains him sorely—no mean pr
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