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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Let my brother open his eyes. I have looked into his medicine-book, but do not see that the red man is anything but a red man. The Great Spirit made him; and what the Great Spirit makes, lasts. The pale- faces have made their book, and it lies." "No, no Peter, Peter, thou utterest wicked words. But the Lord will pardon thee, since thou knowest not what thou sayest.
Some of these were taken advantage of by the natives to serve as canvas for their designs, and were carved with effigies of four-armed divinities, and other SACRED subjects. With the exception of these, we saw few traces of Buddhism about us here. Passing through one of the villages, I bought a medicine-book, or charm, from one of the natives.
A Christian Indian, indeed and a few of those were to be found even at that day would hardly have attended a council convened for the objects which had caused this to be convened. Still, a strong but regulated curiosity existed, to see, and touch, and examine the great medicine-book of the pale-faces.
"My brother has his medicine-book, again," said Peter, "and the red men live. This hand is not withered like the dead branch of the hemlock; yet it has held his word of the Great Spirit! It may be that a red-skin and a pale-face book cannot do each other harm. I looked into my brother's great charm, but did not see or hear a tradition that tells me we are Jews.
"I can't hate him, he is such a very funny brave." After a prolonged silence Moonlight whispered "Does Skipping Rabbit sleep?" "No." "Is there not something in the great medicine-book that father speaks so much about which teaches that we should love our enemies?" "I don't know," replied the little one. "Bounding Bull never taught that to me."
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