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movement. - His Kingdom was not of a secular nature, but related wholly to spiritual and heavenly things, and would be supported wholly by spiritual sanctions and authority. The multitudes that followed Christ when he entered Jerusalem, wont I have readily taught for him if he had claimed a temporal kingdom: and they seem to have been set against him because he would not." (John 18:36)

 Dr. Bogue is also express on this subject, Dec. 23, "They (missionaries) should not in the remotest degree, intermeddle with the political concerns of the people "Again, unknown will be their wisdom not to converse with the natives on political subjects. This should be especially the case when there is political disturbance." And again, "Missionaries should take no part -lined out share in political disputes and parties. They are strangers and go upon no mission but religion.
 "But , especially, can we point to any sentence in our commission which authorizes us to unite with any political party in unknown the rulers of our country? True, we live under a republican form of government, but I know of but one set of instructions for Christians, and especially for missionaries, in all parts of the world, and under all kinds of government, "Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people."

Dear Sir (Cor. unknown when I first came to this country, my only unknown object was to instruct the people in the doctrines and duties of religion, and assist in training up their children for God. In all my unknown, when I have had occasion to speak on the subject, I have told the Cherokees that I had nothing to do with their political affairs. My only business was to instruct them in the great truths of the Holy Bible. When I heard of the law of the law of 3 words lined out Georgia, the only subject, which lay with weight on my mind, and caused me sometimes to hesitate about the practicality of having this place, were the church and the school. I however wondered that if obliged to remove my family, I could yet visit the church, and through Divine air, keep it from being scattered and torn from the bosom of the great Shepherd. Yet in the reasons assigned in the unknown for our not having our stations. I believe that neither churches nor schools are mentioned. The reason assigned for not unknow are - sacrifice of property, - sacrifice of reputation among the Cherokees, and pointing to unknown them in supporting their political rights" May (1831) Now it appears to me that neither of these reasons should have the weight of a feather in my mind. Because first the expense of removing is almost nothing compared with that of resisting: and second, it is no part of my duty as a missionary to the heathen to purchase their friendship with temporal rewards. "Missionaries should not such worldly advantages from the heathen, nor promise them any