A speech, deliver'd by an Indian chief, in reply to a sermon preached by a Swedish missionary, in order to convert the Indians to the Christian religion. On or about the year of our Lord, 1710: a Swedish missionary preached a sermon at an Indian-treaty held at Canastogoe in Pensylvania [sic]: in which sermon he set forth original sin, the necessity of a mediator, and endeavoured by certain arguments to enduce the Indians to embrace the Christian religion. After he ended his discourse, one of the Indian chiefs made a speech in reply to the sermon; and the discourses on both sides were made known by interpreters. The missionary upon his return to Sweden, published his sermon; and the Indian's answer. Having wrote them in Latin, he dedicates them to the University of Usal [sic], and desires them to furnish him with arguments to confute such strong reasoning of the Indian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Indian Chief.

Contributor:

Aurén, Jonas, -1713

Language:

English

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet ; Broadside.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia? : Printed by Andrew Bradford?, not before 1741?]

Notes:

The Swedish missionary was Jonas Aurén, whose letter from Conestoga of Jan. 13, 1699/1700, including the Indian speech, was printed in Latin in: Grönwall, Anders, praeses. .. Dissertatio gradualis, de planatione ecclesiae Svecanae in America, quam .. sistit Tobias e. Biörck. Usaliæ, [1731].

The text of the Indian chief's speech appears in the 'American Magazine' for March 1741, printed at Philadelphia by Andrew Bradford. It is there stated that the sermon and speech were delivered about 1690, and that the Indian chief's speech 'we happened to meet with in a Latin book lately publish'd in Sweden, entitled the History of the Swedish Church in America'.

Bristol supplies the imprint [Philadelphia, A. Bradford, 1715]. It seems unlikely, however, that the present edition was printed before 1741.

Text in two columns.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Bristol B494; Shipton & Mooney 39635a