Art. I. Journal of a Voyage from Okkak on the Coast of Labra
dor to Ungava Bay, westward of Cape Chudleigh ; undertaken to explore the Coast, and visit the Esquimaux in that unknown Re. gión, By Benjamin Kohlmeister and George Kmoch, Missionaries of the Church of the Unitas Fratrum, or United Brethren. Le
Fevre, 2, Chapel place. Seeley. 1814. THE natural enmity of the human heart to the things of
God, is a principle, which, though it find no place in the systems of our intellectual philosophers, has as wide an operation as any which they have put down in their list of categories. How is it then that Moravians, who, of all classes of Christians, have evinced the most earnest and persevering devotedness to these things, have of late become with men of taste, the objects of tender admiration? That they should be loved and admired by the decided Christian, is not to be wondered at : but that they should be idols of a fashionable admiration, that they should be sought after and visited hy secular men; that travellers of all kinds should give way to the ecstacy of sentiment, as they pass through their villages, and take a survey of their establishments and their doings, that the very sound of Moravian music, and the very sight of a Moravian burial-place, should so fill the hearts of these men with images of delight and peacefulness, as to inspire them with something like the kindlings of piety ;all this is surely something new and strange, and might dispose the unthinking to suspect the truth of these unquestionable positions, that “ the carnal mind is enmity against God,” and that “ the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of VOL. III. N. S.
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