History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . o the Indians a colored design ofa tree surmounted by a cross Avhich they called the Catholictree. It showed the Protestants continually going out on thelimbs and falling otf their ends into fires which were being fedwith Protestant books by priests, while the Catholics were climb-ing with the safe agility of monkeys up the trunk to reach the em-blem of salvation with which it was decorated. Mr. Spaulding,one of the Protestant missionaries, was equal to the had his wife paint a
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . o the Indians a colored design ofa tree surmounted by a cross Avhich they called the Catholictree. It showed the Protestants continually going out on thelimbs and falling otf their ends into fires which were being fedwith Protestant books by priests, while the Catholics were climb-ing with the safe agility of monkeys up the trunk to reach the em-blem of salvation with which it was decorated. Mr. Spaulding,one of the Protestant missionaries, was equal to the had his wife paint a series of pictures in water-colors, thelast and crowning one of which showed the broad way thatleadeth to destruction crowded with priests, who were tumblinginto hell at the terminus, while the Protestants ascended the nar-row path to glory. And while all tliis folly and childs playwith sacred words and emblems was going on on both sides, the innocent natives, to whom they were thus combatively teach-ing the religion of peace, were themselves plotting the butcheryeven then almost ripe for
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