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+To morrow morning come to me again and then I will decree your fate."

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000009_000000.txt

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+Solitary Worship.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000009_000001.txt

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+The Savage Philosopher.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000009_000003.txt

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+The Paradox of "Christian Civilization."

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000010_000000.txt

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+The original attitude of the American Indian toward the Eternal, the "Great Mystery" that surrounds and embraces us, was as simple as it was exalted.

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+To him it was the supreme conception, bringing with it the fullest measure of joy and satisfaction possible in this life.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000011_000000.txt

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+The worship of the "Great Mystery" was silent, solitary, free from all self seeking.

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+It was silent, because all speech is of necessity feeble and imperfect; therefore the souls of my ancestors ascended to God in wordless adoration.

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+It was solitary, because they believed that He is nearer to us in solitude, and there were no priests authorized to come between a man and his Maker.

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+None might exhort or confess or in any way meddle with the religious experience of another.

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+Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

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+Our faith might not be formulated in creeds, nor forced upon any who were unwilling to receive it; hence there was no preaching, proselyting, nor persecution, neither were there any scoffers or atheists.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000012_000001.txt

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+Being a natural man, the Indian was intensely poetical.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000014_000001.txt

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+Having first prepared himself by means of the purifying vapor bath, and cast off as far as possible all human or fleshly influences, the young man sought out the noblest height, the most commanding summit in all the surrounding region.

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+At the solemn hour of sunrise or sunset he took up his position, overlooking the glories of earth and facing the "Great Mystery," and there he remained, naked, erect, silent, and motionless, exposed to the elements and forces of His arming, for a night and a day to two days and nights, but rarely longer.

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+Of the vision or sign vouchsafed to him he did not speak, unless it had included some commission which must be publicly fulfilled. Sometimes an old man, standing upon the brink of eternity, might reveal to a chosen few the oracle of his long past youth.

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+The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000016_000002.txt

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+To him, as to other single minded men in every age and race, from Diogenes to the brothers of Saint Francis, from the Montanists to the Shakers, the love of possessions has appeared a snare, and the burdens of a complex society a source of needless peril and temptation.

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+It was not, then, wholly from ignorance or improvidence that he failed to establish permanent towns and to develop a material civilization. To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical.

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+All who have lived much out of doors know that there is a magnetic and nervous force that accumulates in solitude and that is quickly dissipated by life in a crowd; and even his enemies have recognized the fact that for a certain innate power and self poise, wholly independent of circumstances, the American Indian is unsurpassed among men.

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+The first is pure spirit, concerned only with the essence of things, and it was this he sought to strengthen by spiritual prayer, during which the body is subdued by fasting and hardship.

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+In this type of prayer there was no beseeching of favor or help.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000019_000001.txt

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+From the Sun, as the universal father, proceeds the quickening principle in nature, and in the patient and fruitful womb of our mother, the Earth, are hidden embryos of plants and men.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000019_000003.txt

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+This is the material or physical prayer.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000020_000000.txt

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+The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

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+We believed that the spirit pervades all creation and that every creature possesses a soul in some degree, though not necessarily a soul conscious of itself.

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+The tree, the waterfall, the grizzly bear, each is an embodied Force, and as such an object of reverence.

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+The Indian loved to come into sympathy and spiritual communion with his brothers of the animal kingdom, whose inarticulate souls had for him something of the sinless purity that we attribute to the innocent and irresponsible child.

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+He had faith in their instincts, as in a mysterious wisdom given from above; and while he humbly accepted the supposedly voluntary sacrifice of their bodies to preserve his own, he paid homage to their spirits in prescribed prayers and offerings.

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+The Indian was a logical and clear thinker upon matters within the scope of his understanding, but he had not yet charted the vast field of nature or expressed her wonders in terms of science.

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+With his limited knowledge of cause and effect, he saw miracles on every hand,--the miracle of life in seed and egg, the miracle of death in lightning flash and in the swelling deep! Nothing of the marvelous could astonish him; as that a beast should speak, or the sun stand still.

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+Who may condemn his superstition?

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+Surely not the devout Catholic, or even Protestant missionary, who teaches Bible miracles as literal fact! The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the hebrews of old.

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+We have still to face the ultimate miracle,--the origin and principle of life!

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000024_000001.txt

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+In his own thought he rose superior to them!

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+It was clear to him that virtue and happiness are independent of these things, if not incompatible with them.

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+Yet the religion that is preached in our churches and practiced by our congregations, with its element of display and self aggrandizement, its active proselytism, and its open contempt of all religions but its own, was for a long time extremely repellent.

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+To him, it appeared shocking and almost incredible that there were among this people who claimed superiority many irreligious, who did not even pretend to profess the national faith.

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+Not only did they not profess it, but they stooped so low as to insult their God with profane and sacrilegious speech!

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43358_000027_000001.txt

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+They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

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+The lust for money, power, and conquest so characteristic of the Anglo Saxon race did not escape moral condemnation at the hands of his untutored judge, nor did he fail to contrast this conspicuous trait of the dominant race with the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus.

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+He might in time come to recognize that the drunkards and licentious among white men, with whom he too frequently came in contact, were condemned by the white man's religion as well, and must not be held to discredit it.

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+But it was not so easy to overlook or to excuse national bad faith.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43359_000001_000001.txt

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+THE FAMILY ALTAR

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43359_000002_000000.txt

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+Pre natal Influence.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43359_000002_000001.txt

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+Early Religious Teaching.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43359_000003_000002.txt

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+There was no priest to assume responsibility for another's soul.

dev-clean-preprocessed/normalized_txt/5536_43359_000003_000003.txt

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+That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

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+The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

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+Silence and isolation are the rule of life for the expectant mother.