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REGINA, 
 
 THE GERMAN CAPTIVE; 
 
 OK, 
 
 TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. R. WEISER. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 What ! another religious novel ? No; not so fast. 
 The profound Goethe says, concerning his Wilhelm 
 Meister, that it is no novel, nor is it a myth, nor 
 an allegory. So we can say of Regina: It is no 
 novel, nor is it a myth, nor an allegory, but it is a 
 true narrative of well-authenticated facts, — somewhat 
 enlarged and embellished, we admit; — but, neverthe- 
 less, all the main facts are true, and recorded by 
 Rev. Dr. H. Melchior Muhlenberg, as you can see 
 in the "JHaUtsche Nachrichten" (page 1029,) where 
 he informs us that Regina and her mother called to 
 see him at his house in New Providence, in 1765, 
 and narrated all the circumstances of the murders 
 and captivity just as we have recorded them. Mr. 
 Muhlenberg did not record all the circumstances in 
 the case. Those who were acquainted with Mrs. 
 Hartman and her daughter, and who often saw 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 her, and had more time to converse with her than 
 Dr. Muhlenberg, would of course learn more of the 
 particulars. My grandmother, Mrs. Esther Weiser, 
 — a daughter of Col. Jacob Sevan, and daughter-in- 
 law to Conrad Weiser, was born in 1734, and died 
 in Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pa., in 1820, at the 
 advanced age of eighty-six, — was well acquainted 
 with Mrs. Hartman and Regina ; and, when I was a 
 little boy, I often heard her tell the story of the Hart- 
 man massacre and the captivity of Regina. And the 
 recital of those terrible scenes made such an im- 
 pression on my mind that the lapse of near forty 
 years has not erased them. When, therefore, about 
 ten years ago, the "Hallische Nachriehten" fell into 
 my hands, and when I read the thrilling narrative 
 of Hartman's massacre and Regina's captivity, it 
 refreshed my memory, and I saw that it was the 
 same thrilling story I heard from my grandmother ; 
 and I at once made up my mind that, as soon as I 
 could command the time, I would take Mr. Muh- 
 lenberg's narrative and the skeleton of my own 
 recollection, and I would at least try to fill it out 
 into the . form and proportions of a little book. 
 This I have now done ; and how well I have sue* 
 
PREFACE. 
 
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 ceeded the reader must judge. That I have some- 
 times drawn upon my imagination must be ad- 
 mitted; for how else, in the absence of documentary 
 evidence, could I bring the various links of the 
 chain together ? 
 
 This book is prepared for our Lutheran Sabbath- 
 schools. We have a precious treasure in the his- 
 tory of our own church, and we should make 
 use of it. God has had his martyrs, and suf- 
 fering ones, and holy little ones, in our beloved 
 Lutheran Zion, and we should tell the tales of their 
 sufferings and sorrows to our children; and this we 
 have attempted to do in the following pages. More 
 than this : — the American Indians are fast passing 
 away, and our children should know something 
 about their cruelties, and thus see why Grod has 
 permitted them to be banished from their native 
 land. 
 
 "We have interwoven many Indian customs and 
 —ages with our narrative. From this narrative we 
 learn, as Dr. Muhlenberg says, in closing his ac- 
 count of Regina, the importance of early religious 
 instruction. Here was a child cast off from all re- 
 ligious influences, among wicked savages ; and yet 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 the seeds of piety sown in her young breast con- 
 tinued, even under the most unfavorable circum- 
 stances, to grow. "If," says Muhlenberg, " Luther 
 were yet in this world, and were to hear that a child 
 from Reutlingen — a free city which stood so firmly 
 by the Augsburg Confession in 1530 — had been 
 kept, by God's pure word, in a remote wilderness, 
 in a state of grace, he would bless and thank God 
 for it, and with comfort and joy would he once 
 more say — 
 
 " Das Wort sie sollen lassen stahn, 
 Und keinen Dank darzu haben." 
 
 This book is sent forth to teach parents as well as 
 children how to live and die happy. May the bless- 
 ing of God rest upon it ! 
 
 R. Weiser. 
 
 Fort Des Moines, Iowa, 
 July 1, 1856. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preface 5 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Introduction 13 
 
 CHAPTER LL 
 
 Settlement in America 32 
 
 CHAPTER DX 
 Life in the New Home 54 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The Dreadful Calamity that fell upon the Hartman 
 
 Family 72 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Widow and her only Son — All that is left of a once 
 Happy and Prosperous Family 109 
 
 CHAPTER VL 
 
 The Captivity — In which we have an Account of what 
 befell the poor Girls, Barbara and Regina, and the 
 Hardships the Captives endured among the Indians 119 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Regina and Susan in Captivity — Their Hardships — The 
 Cruelty of the Old Squaw — How they spent their Time 
 — Their Affection for each other 131 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 The Home of a Desolate Widow — Her Thoughts — Her 
 Hopes 140 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Regina — Her Presentiments of Deliverance — The In- 
 dian War — The Triumphs of the English Arms — The 
 Battles — The Capitulation — A large number of White 
 Captive Children delivered to Colonel Boquet — Regina 
 among the number 152 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 PAOl 
 
 The Mother — Home of the Lonely Widow in the Moun- 
 tains — The strong and undying Affection of a fond 
 Mother — Her Thoughts of the Loved, the Lost, the Ab- 
 sent, and the Dead 170 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 The Daughter — The Widow's Toils and Labors Rewarded 
 — The Lost Found — The Means of the Discovery — A 
 Thrilling Scene — Regina in her fond Mother's Arms — 
 Happy, Happy Mother! 185 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Regina at Home Again — Her Habits — Her Awkward 
 Predicament — How she learned German the Second 
 Time — Her Imperfect Religion — Her True Conversion 
 to God — Her Connection with the Lutheran Church — 
 Mrs. Hartman's Cup of Joy full — Heaven upon Earth 
 — Religion the best of all 192 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 The Widow's Home made Happy — Christian and Susan 
 — Their Conversion — Connection with the Church — 
 Courtship and Marriage 225 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 PAOl 
 
 Regina and her Mother — Piety of Mrs. Hartman — Her 
 Sickness — Regina's ceaseless Attention to her afflicted 
 Mother — Her Happiness in Prospect of Heaven — Her 
 Happy Death 236 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 Regina— Her Character— Her Piety— Her End 249 
 
REGINA, 
 
 THE GERMAN CAPTIVE. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In a beautiful and romantic country in 
 the kingdom of Wurtemburg, on a small 
 stream called the Echetz, which empties its 
 sparkling waters into the Neckar, lies the 
 old and famous city of Reutlingen. This 
 city was famous already during the wars of 
 Julius Caesar, but became more so during 
 the storms and convulsions of the Reforma- 
 tion. It was one of the fourteen imperial 
 cities which stood by the Augsburg Confes- 
 sion, and solemnly protested against the 
 iniquitous decrees of the second Diet of 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 Spires. Hence arose the name Protest- 
 ants, — an honorable appellation, which is 
 now given to all those Christians who re- 
 nounce the errors and superstitions of the 
 Roman Communion. This city justly 
 prides itself, not only in having successfully 
 resisted Julius Csesar and all the mighty 
 legions of ancient Rome, but also in hav- 
 ing withstood all those savage hordes of 
 northern barbarians who from time to time 
 overran nearly all Europe. And even at 
 this day may be seen an ancient battering- 
 ram in the old town-hall of Reutlingen, 
 which is said to have been captured in the 
 Roman wars nearly nineteen centuries ago ! 
 Reutlingen is romantically located in a 
 deep valley among the spurs of the mighty 
 Alps — the Black Forest on the east, and 
 other high ridges to the west. Near this 
 beautiful city, in an ancient farm-house, in 
 1710, John Hartman was born, on the 20th 
 of June. He was the younger of two sons ; 
 his parents were pious, and quite intelligent 
 for people in their circumstances. He was 
 sent to school when five years old, and 
 before lie was ten he had committed to 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 15 
 
 memory nearly the whole Lutheran Cate- 
 chism. There w r as nothing remarkable in 
 his history. He was confirmed at the proper 
 time, and ever after led a life of piety. He 
 worked on the little farm of his father. 
 Time passed on: the father died in 1727. 
 In 1736, John Hartman became acquainted 
 with a young lady whose mother lived in 
 Eeutlingen; her name was Magdalena 
 Swartz, and after a year's courtship he mar- 
 ried her. They lived happily together for 
 a number of years until they had a family 
 of children. The little farm that had sup- 
 ported John Hartman's father was found 
 too small to support two families with com 
 fort. 
 
 John Hartman w 7 as industrious and fru- 
 gal: he rose early and labored hard, but 
 could with great difficulty pay his heavy 
 taxes and feed and clothe his increasing 
 family. He was often discouraged, and 
 would sit down in the house, when he was 
 done with his w^ork, and meditate upon his 
 hard lot in sadness and sorrow. Still, as a 
 Christian, he tried to bear up under his 
 fate. It was his duty, he knew, to be con- 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 tented with such things as he had, and he 
 dare not murmur against the wise dispensa- 
 tions of Providence. But how could he 
 help it, when he saw others, who were no 
 better than himself, and with less effort, in 
 much better circumstances ? 
 
 He had often heard of America; he had 
 a maternal uncle who had gone to America, 
 and had settled in Pennsylvania; he re- 
 collected that his father had often received 
 letters from this uncle — he would hunt them 
 up and read them again. He could only 
 find one, the rest were mislaid or destroyed, 
 but that one letter was sufficient to fire his 
 heart with a desire for the new world. "We 
 here furnish a literal translation of this in- 
 teresting letter. Here it is : — 
 
 "Heidleberg Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, 
 June 17th, 1726, North America. 
 
 u To George Hartman, near Reutlingen, Kingdom of Wurtem- 
 burg, Germany. 
 
 < ' Dear B rother-in-l aw : — This i s to inform 
 you that we are all well, and well pleased 
 with America. We live in a good land, 
 where every thing is plenty, and we have 
 schools and churches. The land is good 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 17 
 
 and very cheap; you can get as much as 
 you want by clearing it. Oh, I have often 
 wished you were here with your family. 
 You could do well, and live just like a lord. 
 Sell your little piece of land, and if you 
 only get enough to bring you to Phila- 
 delphia, I will bring you from there up to 
 our place, which is about eighty miles. 
 Here you can raise wheat, and rye, and 
 barley, and potatoes. We have apples, and 
 peaches, and plums, and other fruit. We 
 raise hogs, and cattle, and sheep, and chick- 
 ens, and have plenty of meat the year round. 
 We live under the King of England, but we 
 are not burdened with taxes as you are. 
 Our land is very fertile, and easily culti- 
 vated. I hope you will come to this ' pro- 
 mised land.' Philadelphia is the principal 
 town in the province of Pennsylvania, and 
 Eeading is the principal town in our Berks 
 county. We live about four German miles 
 from Reading. If you write, direct your 
 letter to me at Heidleberg Township, Berk3 
 county, Pennsylvania, North America. 
 " Yours in brotherly love, 
 
 44 Frederick Sch-cener." 
 
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 EEGINA ; OR, 
 
 This letter made a deep impression on his 
 mind. He had heard of America before, 
 but never as a father. This was the country 
 for him. His mind was made up at once : 
 he would leave the land of his birth, and 
 seek a home in the new world. No sooner 
 had he made the firm resolve than he felt a 
 heavy load removed from his heart. John 
 Hartman was not a man of indecision ; he 
 was firm and resolute; he had an iron will, 
 and when he made up his mind to do any 
 thing, he would do it. One Saturday after- 
 noon he knew the schoolmaster would be at 
 leisure; he went to him to ask him about 
 America; he knew nothing about it, nor 
 where it lay, nor how to get there. The 
 schoolmaster answered all his questions, and 
 showed him a map of North America, and 
 pointed out the province of Pennsylvania, 
 and informed him how he would get there. 
 He told him he must cross the Black Forest 
 and go to Strasburg, which is on the Rhine, 
 and there take a boat and go down the 
 Rhine to Amsterdam in Holland, and there 
 he would find ships that would carry him 
 across the Atlantic ocean to Philadelphia. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 
 
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 The schoolmaster encouraged him to go. 
 This was all calculated to strengthen Hart- 
 man's resolution. He returned to his home 
 with his heart brimfull of America. Yes, 
 he would go. " Come what may," he said to 
 himself, "I will go to America." Bat how 
 would his wife like to go ? He had never 
 said any thing to her about it ; he would go 
 right home and tell her. She would, no 
 doubt, agree to it at once. When he came 
 home he looked so cheerful and happy, that 
 the eye of affection at once saw that there 
 was something unusual in his mind. " Why, 
 John, what makes you look so pleasant?" 
 "Come, Magdalena, sit down here, and I 
 will tell you." She sat down on a stool, 
 and when John had lit his pipe, he informed 
 her of his determination. 44 Well, John, it 
 is hard to leave one's country, and the 
 graves of our pious dead, and our dear 
 church ; but if you think it best, I will not 
 oppose you, but will cheerfully follow you 
 to the end of the world !" John Hartman 
 was not the man that could remain unmoved 
 when he heard this. His heart swelled 
 with emotion, and his eyes were filled with 
 
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 REG1NA ; OR, 
 
 tears, as lie tried to say, "God bless you, 
 dear, faithful wife !" 
 
 Their arrangements were soon made: 
 their slender effects were disposed of, the 
 papers obtained, and soon they were on 
 their way to Strasburg. One of their neigh- 
 bors hauled them over the Black Forest, 
 and they had a pleasant journey to the 
 Rhine. At Strasburg they took a large 
 boat with a number of other German emi- 
 grants, and arrived safely at Amsterdam in 
 about two weeks. Here they found a ship 
 ready to sail in a few days for Philadelphia. 
 In about a week, the good ship "New 
 World" weighed her anchor, and spread her 
 sails to the winds, and soon plowed her way 
 through the blue waters of the ocean. The 
 accommodations were good, and, although 
 the passage was tedious, being sixty-four 
 days on sea, yet it was prosperous. They 
 had some rough weather — the winds blew 
 an awful tempest, and the waves ran moun- 
 tain high, and the passengers were much 
 alarmed; yet the noble ship outrode the 
 storm, and brought them in safety to their 
 desired haven. Oh, how great was their 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 21 
 
 joy when the land of the New World was 
 first seen! John Hartman and his wife 
 thanked God for their safe passage. They 
 arrived in Philadelphia on the twentieth of 
 June, 1744. 
 
 The weather was beautiful, and although 
 the city was then small compared with the 
 present time, yet the country round about 
 it was more beautiful. Nature was then 
 seen on the banks of the noble rivers that 
 flow through the city, in all her pristine 
 glory and loveliness. John Hartman had 
 money enough to pay his passage, and had 
 even enough left to carry him to the country, 
 and start him on a farm. But, alas ! this was 
 not the case with a number of those who 
 had come across the ocean with him. They 
 were poor, and had to become what was 
 then called " Bedemptionists that is, they 
 had to be sold into servitude to pay the ex- 
 penses of their transportation to this country. 
 This was hard: the father was sometimes 
 sold to one man, the mother to another, and 
 the children perhaps to another, and thus 
 the family was altogether and often forever 
 broken up. On a certain day, a kind of an 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 auction was made, for the sale of these poor 
 white slaves, and the highest bidder took 
 either the father, or mother, or some of the 
 children, and carried them off to places 
 where they would perhaps never see their 
 relatives again. I recollect, when a boy, of 
 seeing some of those Kedemptionists, who 
 had not yet served out their time ; and yet, 
 strange to say, even this cruel system had 
 its advantages, and the German character, 
 by its own innate energy, rose above the 
 degradation which it fastened upon it, and 
 many of the wealthiest and most respectable 
 families in Penns}dvania and Delaware are 
 the descendants of these Redemptionists, or, 
 as they were sometimes also called, Re- 
 demptioners. I was personally acquainted 
 with one in my youth, who was sold, when 
 he was seven years old, for fourteen years. 
 Such was his energy and industry, that when 
 he had been free two years, he rented his 
 master's mill, two years afterward he married 
 his master's only daughter, and, in 1818, he 
 was the most wealthy and enterprising man 
 in the county where he lived. 
 In order to give the reader of these pages 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 23 
 
 a correct idea of this system, I will here 
 translate an article from the "Hallische 
 ISTachrichten," or the Annals of Halle, a 
 work which is highly esteemed in the Luthe- 
 ran church, as the only hook that contains 
 any thing like an authentic history of the 
 planting and training of the Lutheran 
 church in America. This work is mostly 
 from the able pen of Rev. Henry Melchior 
 Muhlenberg, D.D., who is justly looked upon 
 as the Apostolic Father of the American 
 Lutheran church. The article here given 
 is from his prolific pen. It is found in a 
 note on page 997. It would seem that the 
 men who were engaged in the nefarious 
 business of coaxing the poor German emi- 
 grants into this voluntary servitude, were a 
 base and unprincipled set of scoundrels, and 
 w r ere called Neulanders, or Newlanders. 
 Dr. Muhlenberg says, "I dare not omit the 
 duty imposed upon me at this place, to make 
 some remarks concerning the ISTewlanders, 
 and to warn our German countrymen 
 against them. I do not now speak of those 
 persons who go back to Germany for their 
 inheritance, or to collect funds for others 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 who reside here, and who sometimes lay 
 the funds thus collected out for merchandise, 
 which they dispose of in our markets. This 
 is a lawful business, with which I find no 
 fault. But when I speak of Newlanders, I 
 mean those who are too lazy to work, and 
 whose object in going to Germany is not 
 only to collect funds, but to entice, by various 
 dishonorable means, multitudes of poor Ger- 
 mans to leave their country and come to 
 this new world. These Kewlanders make 
 themselves acquainted with the merchants 
 in Holland; these merchants give them a 
 free passage, and a douceur, or bribe, for 
 each family or individual they can entice 
 into the hands of those merchants. In order 
 that they may accomplish their ends, they 
 use all kinds of dishonorable and crafty 
 means. They are accustomed to dress in 
 costly attire, display their rich jewelry, and 
 try to leave the impression that they are 
 very rich, in order to stimulate the cupidity 
 of the poor Germans, and to make them 
 the more desirous to remove to such a lucky 
 and happy country. They make such extra- 
 ordinary representations of the country, that 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 25 
 
 one is almost induced to believe that all the 
 country was nothing but elysian fields, that 
 sow themselves without labor or toil; that 
 the mountains were all made of gold and 
 silver; and that nothing but milk and 
 honey flowed from all its springs. They 
 would make one believe that he who goes 
 to America as a servant shall become a lord, 
 the maid shall become a lady, the farmer 
 shall become a nobleman, the citizen and 
 mechanic a baron. Here in America, ac- 
 cording to their representations, the govern- 
 ment is made and unmade by the people, 
 just as it may suit them. Now, as every 
 person has a natural desire to improve his 
 condition, who w T ould not cheerfully go to 
 such a country ? In Europe, the land is over- 
 burdened with inhabitants, and especially as 
 the labor of the poorer classes is not in de- 
 mand, and the taxes and the (Frolindienst) 
 service which the peasant owes to the land- 
 holder are intolerable; is it any wonder 
 that so many are ready to go to America ? 
 Families "are broken up, their little worldly 
 possessions are converted into money, their 
 debts are paid, and if any thing should be 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 left, it is put into the hands of the New* 
 landers, and the journey is soon commenced. 
 Next comes the journey on the Rhine. 
 From Holland, the emigrant cannot always 
 start across the ocean when he pleases, and, 
 therefore, he accepts money in advance from 
 the merchants, or ship-owners. Then comes 
 the enormous expense of the sea-voyage, 
 and a head-tax for each individual. Before 
 they leave Holland, they must sign an agree- 
 ment drawn up in English, (which, of course, 
 they do not understand,) the Newlanders 
 meanwhile assuring them that it is all right, 
 and that they would not, of course, see their 
 countrymen imposed upon. The more pas- 
 sengers can be crowded into the ship, the 
 better it is for the captain and owner, pro- 
 vided they do not die on the way. The ship 
 is kept clean and pure, and every means is 
 used to bring the chattel into market in a 
 sound and healthy state. Formerly, they 
 were not so careful to preserve life, but 
 permitted those to die who could not live ! 
 
 " When parents happened to die on the pas- 
 sage, the captain and Newlanders usually 
 acted as protectors of the children ; the chests 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 27 
 
 of the departed were opened, and the pro- 
 perty taken into possession by those kind- 
 hearted scoundrels, and, when the ship 
 reached the port, the poor children were 
 sold to pay their own and the passage of 
 their deceased parents; and, if there were 
 any quite young ones among them, they 
 were given away, and all the property re- 
 maining was appropriated to themselves by 
 those pious guardians of the poor children, 
 as fees for their guardianship. 
 
 "Such heaven-crying enormities called 
 loudly for redress, and gave occasion to a 
 number of the well-disposed German citi- 
 zens of Philadelphia to unite themselves 
 into an organization, called the 'German 
 Society,' whose object was to aid and assist 
 the poor emigrants, and to see that justice 
 w r as done to those unfortunate ones. 
 
 " As soon as the ship is freighted in Hol- 
 land, the wearisome and dangerous voyage 
 commences. The hardships and trials of a 
 lengthened sea-voyage, occasioned by sick- 
 ness, and storms, and other causes, are very 
 much ameliorated with the hope of soon 
 reaching the New World, and in that new 
 
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 REGINA ; OR, 
 
 world a perfect paradise. At length, one 
 ship after the other arrives at the port of 
 Philadelphia, perhaps when the cold winter 
 is at the door. The merchants in this city 
 receive a list of the emigrants, and the arti- 
 cles of agreement which each one signed in 
 Holland; and then follows the account of 
 the journey down the Rhine, and the money 
 advanced by the Newlanders, the amount 
 of freight, and the provisions they received. 
 The passage for a grown person was for- 
 merly from six to eight Louis d'or; now, 
 however, it amounts to from sixteen to 
 seventeen Louis d'or, (which is $74.48.) Be- 
 fore the ship can enter the port, according 
 to our laws, all persons must be carefully 
 examined, to learn whether they are free 
 from contagious diseases. Then the emi- 
 grants are marched in procession to the 
 custom-house, where they must take the 
 oath of allegiance to the King of England; 
 then they are marched back to the ship. 
 Then it is published in the papers, that 
 there are so many Germans to be sold for 
 their passage. Those who have the means 
 purchase themselves; those who have not 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 29 
 
 the means, or no friends to advance funds, 
 are sold. The ship is the market- house. 
 The purchasers go to the ship, and select 
 such as they want, make a bargain for so 
 many years, go to the agent, pay down the 
 money, and have an indenture made, which 
 transfers the ownership for the time speci- 
 fied. The young people, of both sexes, are 
 generally sold first, and get a good or bad 
 situation according to the disposition of the 
 master, or as God in his providence permits. 
 It has often been observed that those children 
 who were disobedient to their parents, and left 
 them without their consent, generally fell into 
 such hands where they received the reward of 
 their evil ways. 
 
 "Old and infirm persons no one wants, for 
 such are already too numerous. But if they 
 have children, the children are sold for the 
 passage of their infirm parents, and, of 
 course, are sold higher, because they must 
 serve so much longer. Thus, the children 
 are scattered far and wide, among people of 
 different languages, where they will forget 
 their native tongue, and perhaps never see 
 each other or their parents again. The old 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 persons are then permitted to leave the ship ; 
 they come into the city poor, spiritless, and 
 naked, and look as though they had come 
 from their graves ; they then go about 
 among the Germans and beg their bread: 
 for the English people are afraid of catching 
 infectious diseases from them, and do not 
 admit them into their houses. These things 
 are enough to cause one's heart to bleed. 
 We see these poor human beings, who have 
 come from a land of gospel grace, weeping 
 and mourning, and wringing their hands in 
 anguish ! They curse, in the bitterest lan- 
 guage, all the JSTewlanders and merchants 
 who so grossly deceived them. But, alas! 
 those who are absent do not hear thos« 
 curses and lamentations ; and the so-called 
 Newlanders only laugh at their calamities, 
 and give them the comfort which the priests 
 gave to Judas Iscariot : — ' What is that to 
 us? see thou to it.' The very children 
 themselves, when they find that they must 
 serve so much longer for their parents, often 
 hate and even despise them." 
 
 Such is the picture drawn of this nefari- 
 ous system of white slavery by Dr. Muhlen- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. HI 
 
 berg, and such a scene was acted on the 
 good ship "New World" when she arrived 
 at Philadelphia. As stated before, John 
 Hartman had the means to pay his own 
 way; and the benevolence of his heart 
 even prompted him to assist several of his 
 countrymen, so that they were not sold into 
 bondage. I thought it important to say 
 thus much about the Redemptionists, so 
 that the children of our Lutheran church 
 may know something about the hardships 
 and trials our forefathers had to encounter 
 when they first came to this Western world. 
 Dr. Muhleixberg frequently refers to those 
 wicked and unprincipled men called the 
 Newlanders. But it was fortunate for John 
 Hartman that he was abl*e to keep himself 
 out of their clutches. 
 
regina; or, 
 
 CHAPTER H. 
 
 John Hartman spent several weeks iu 
 Philadelphia, in the house of a German, 
 until he could make inquiries as to the 
 most advantageous location. He finally 
 made up his mind to go to Reading, and 
 from there to some point nea'r the Blue 
 Mountains. On Sabbath he went to church, 
 and heard a most excellent sermon from 
 Rev. Dr. H. M. Muhlenberg, in St. Michael's 
 Church, which was then new, but is now 
 one of the oldest churches in the land. He 
 and his pious wife were anxious to con- 
 verse with this good man ; so they waited in 
 the front part of the church until he came 
 out, when they introduced themselves to 
 him. He received them very kindly, and 
 inquired about them, and gave them good 
 advice. The short interview they had with 
 him left a very favorable impression on 
 their minds. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 33 
 
 They had four children, all born in Ger- 
 many, — viz.: George, so called after his pater- 
 nal grandfather; Barbara, Regina, (which 
 in Latin means a queen,) w T hich was a fancy 
 name, and Christian, the youngest, who was 
 so called after the excellent old pastor of 
 Reutlingen. These children were all dedi- 
 cated to God in holy baptism, according to 
 the usages of the Lutheran church. Thus, 
 you see, Hartman had a heavy charge upon 
 him ; and, like a true Christian man, he felt 
 all the weight of his responsibility. These 
 children were his treasures, and he felt that 
 they were immortal and accountable beings 
 like himself ; and he and his excellent wife 
 prayed for their children and always set 
 them a good and pious example. 
 
 They left Philadelphia about the last of 
 June, with a farmer who had taken wheat 
 to the city in a four-horse wagon. The 
 farmer was to haul them to Heidelberg 
 township, Berks county, near where the 
 celebrated Indian interpreter, Conrad Wei- 
 eer, lived ; for it was in that neighborhood 
 where Mr. Schoener, the maternal uncle of 
 John Hartman, had lived, some ten or fifteen 
 
84 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 years before, and he thought he might per- 
 haps find some of his cousins. But he 
 could not find either his uncle or any of his 
 cousins. Some of the oldest inhabitants in- 
 formed him that a family by that name had 
 lived there, but that they had moved over 
 the Blue Mountains. This was sad news to 
 poor Hartman. Here he was in a strange 
 land, among a strange people, with a large, 
 dependent family, and his funds fast de- 
 creasing, and no prospects before him. But 
 he was not easily discouraged : he trusted in 
 God. He became acquainted with an old 
 soldier who had passed much of his time in 
 war and hunting, and who was extensively 
 acquainted in Pennsylvania. This man ad- 
 vised him to cross the Blue Mountains at a 
 pass which he pointed oat. In a few days 
 he and the old hunter went over the moun- 
 tain. The country pleased Hartman very 
 much. The wild mountain scenery reminded 
 him of his own native land ; and, as several 
 German families already resided there, Hart- 
 man made up his mind to locate there. He 
 selected a beautiful spot near where Orwigs- 
 burg, in Schuylkill county, now stands. It 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 35 
 
 was indeed a beautiful country. There were 
 the tall forest-trees and the pure sparkling 
 streams, and plenty of game, such as deer, 
 hears, wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, and 
 other animals. The land, too, would cost 
 him nothing but a few shillings to have it 
 patented. He returned and purchased him- 
 self an old wagon and two horses, for twenty- 
 seven pounds six shillings and eight pence ; 
 the gears were thrown into the bargain. He 
 also purchased such other things as he needed, 
 and on a bright and lovely morning he started 
 off with his interesting family. In tw T o days 
 they reached their new home. The chil- 
 dren w r ere much pleased with the journe}^. 
 When they crossed the Blue Mountains — poor 
 things ! — they thought they were in Germany 
 and on the Black Forest. The roads were 
 very rough and hilly, and frequently John 
 Hartman had to cut an opening through 
 the dense forest for the passage of the 
 wagon. The first night they had to camp 
 out, and w T ere much disturbed at night by 
 the howling of the wolves and the barking 
 of foxes. But they fared well; Hartman 
 shot five or six gray squirrels, and they had 
 
30 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 cooking-utensils with them, and bread and 
 butter and salt; so they made an excellent 
 meal. And at night, after having committed 
 themselves into God's care, they went to bed 
 in the wagon, which was covered, and slept 
 sweetly till morning. Soon after a hearty 
 breakfast, they started again, and reached 
 their future home about five o'clock in the 
 afternoon. They halted near a large spring, 
 where the pure, fresh, and sparkling water 
 welled up in great profusion. "Here," 
 says John Hartman, "here is our home. 
 Here we will, in the name of the Lord, pitch 
 our tent." This was in a lovely little valley 
 with lofty mountains all around, with here 
 and there a gap through which the waters 
 found their way to the plains below. John 
 Hartman's plans were all made, and well 
 made too. He could handle the axe and the 
 saw ; and, although he was no professed me- 
 chanic, he could turn his hand to almost 
 any thing. He had plenty of timber, and 
 there was a saw-mill some three miles off. 
 The land right round the spring was bare 
 of timber; it was a kind of natural glade, 
 and contained an abundance of excellent 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 37 
 
 grass. The first evening was spent in mak- 
 ing known his plans to his family for the 
 future. After supper, they sang that beau- 
 tiful German evening hymn, beginning 
 
 " Herr, der du mir das Leben 
 Bis diesen Tag gegeben, 
 Dick bet' ich kindlich an ! 
 Ich bin viel zu geringe 
 Der Treue, die ich singe 
 Und die du heut' an mir getban I" 
 
 This hymn was sung by the whole family 
 as they sat around the dying embers of the 
 fire that had cooked their supper; and the 
 profound solitude of those primeval forests 
 was broken for the first time by the voice 
 of singing and prayer. Hartman and his 
 family felt safe. God is everywhere, — as well 
 in those wild and romantic scenes as in the 
 populous city; this was the sentiment of 
 Hartman. 
 
 The children, however, often asked for the 
 house. "Where is our house?" "Howarewe 
 to live here?" " What will we do w r hen it 
 rains? when the cold winter comes?" To all 
 these questions Hartman had but one answer ; 
 and that was, " Only wait a while, children, 
 
 4 
 
38 
 
 regixa; or, 
 
 and you will see." When they lay down the 
 first night in their new home, the} 7 were very 
 much disturbed by the howling of wolves 
 and the barking of foxes, but at length they 
 all fell asleep, and slept till morning. In 
 the morning the sun arose clear and bright, 
 but to the Hartman family it seemed to rise 
 in the wrong place. Regina thought it was 
 owing to the fact that they were on the 
 other side of the world. Hartman went to 
 the saw-mill, and bought a load of slabs 
 and a few boards, and by the third evening 
 had a pretty good shanty put up. And the 
 industrious and judicious wife soon had her 
 little household matters put in order. Hart- 
 man made a table by boring four holes in a 
 wide slab and putting legs in ; and he also 
 made two long benches in the same way. 
 And thus things soon began to look like 
 home. George, too, was a great help to his 
 father; and Barbara and Regina assisted 
 their mother in household affairs. They 
 were as happy as any children could be. 
 Hartman bought himself a couple of cows, 
 and the man he bought them from made 
 him a present of a half-grown puppy. George, 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG TIIE LOWLY. 39 
 
 who had gone with his father for the cows, 
 tied a string around his neck and led him 
 home. All the children were delighted with 
 the dog. A great question now arose: — 
 " What shall the dog be called ?" Some were 
 for calling him Bull, some Penny, some Silly; 
 but at length they all agreed with a sugges- 
 tion of the mother that his name should be 
 Wasser; and Wasser was his name; and a 
 noble dog he became, as the future will show. 
 Henceforth Wasser was a part and parcel 
 of the family. He partook in all the plays 
 and enjoyments of the children, and ren- 
 dered important service to the family in 
 helping to secure game. 
 
 Wasser drove the wolves and foxes away, 
 protected the poultry, and made himself use- 
 ful in many ways. The children were all so 
 fond of the dog that little Christian wanted 
 to have him sleep with him; but this the 
 parents would not permit. 
 
 Wasser once had the temerity to attack a 
 large bear, and was near losing his life, for 
 the bear tore him almost apart, and it was a 
 long time before the wound healed. After 
 that, Wasser would not attack a bear, but, 
 
40 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 when he found one, would only bark until 
 some one would come and shoot his prize. 
 Hartman and his son George next built a 
 stable for the cattle, then got logs ready to 
 build a better house, then made fence and 
 got ready for the fall-sowing. But we have 
 not time now to dwell on all the particulars. 
 Let it be enough to say that Hartman pros- 
 pered greatly. Here, in this romantic and 
 retired spot, they lived and were happy for 
 several years. Their neighbors were a few 
 German families, and a few friendly Indians, 
 who had come from Shamokin, where the 
 celebrated missionary, David Brainard, had 
 preached a few years before, and from which 
 place he returned sick to the house of Pre- 
 sident Edwards, in Northampton, and died. 
 Although these poor Indians were not truly 
 converted to God, yet they had heard enough 
 of the gospel to know that they had im- 
 mortal souls and that they dare not injure 
 their fellow-men. They could speak a little 
 German, too, which they had learned from 
 the Moravian missionaries, who sometimes 
 visited those parts. 
 
 Here, then, almost in solitude, this interest- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 41 
 
 ing family lived in the service of God and in 
 the constant practice of those virtues that will 
 make us happy. Morning and evening con- 
 stantly witnessed their beautiful singing and 
 their fervent prayers. Still, the parents could 
 not but think often of their dear native land. 
 Though that land had done but little for them, 
 yet it was their native land, and the land 
 that contained the ashes of their fathers ! 
 Mr. Hartman was an energetic, industrious, 
 pious, and intelligent man, and his wife was 
 an amiable and exemplary Christian. 
 
 They had both been carefully instructed 
 in the principles of the Christian religion 
 according to the time-honored usages of the 
 Lutheran church. They were well ac- 
 quainted with her doctrines; and, although 
 they were not extensively read in polemics, 
 yet they knew that the doctrines of the 
 Lord's supper, as taught in the Lutheran 
 church, were not the same that were 
 taught in the Roman Catholic church. 
 They believed in the Catechism and in the 
 Augsburg Confession ; but they did not be- 
 lieve either in transubstantiation, nor in 
 consubstantiation, nor in impanation. They 
 4* 
 
42 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 had perhaps never heard those terms; but 
 they believed — and felt it too — that the Lord 
 Jesus is present in the holy supper. It was 
 enough for them to know that every time 
 they partook of the sacred emblems of the 
 broken body and shed blood of the Son of 
 God, they were strengthened and refreshed 
 in their souls. This was enough for them. 
 
 And as to holy baptism, they believed 
 that it was an ordinance of God, and that 
 all the children of Christian parents should 
 be baptized. But they never were taught 
 to believe — and they never found it taught 
 in the Bible — that baptism was regenera- 
 tion ; but, on the contrary, they knew that 
 they had been baptized in their infancy, 
 and }^et well recollected the time when 
 they were not in a state of regeneration. 
 They knew, too, by sad and bitter — and yet 
 happy — experience, that all men, whether 
 baptized or not, must be born again. 
 
 Their theological library consisted of — 1. 
 The Bible, — a great, large Bible, — with the 
 pictures of the dukes of Saxony in front, and 
 the Augsburg Confession in the back part. 
 2. The good old Wittenbergische Gesang 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 43 
 
 Buch, (or large Lutheran Hymn-Book, 
 published at Wittenberg.) 3. Arndt's True 
 Christianity. 4. Starke's Prayer-Book. 5. 
 A volume of sermons, by Henry Schubert, 
 then just published ; and a Hundred-Year 
 Almanac. Yes, they also had a German 
 ABC book, but it was in a very dilapi- 
 dated condition; still, the children could 
 learn to read in it. This was the whole 
 literary treasure they had. The Lutheran 
 Catechism was lost; and on one occasion, 
 when Hartrnan went over the mountains for 
 salt and iron, he called on the Rev. Nicho- 
 las Kurtz at Tulpehocken, and got a new 
 one. This library, though small, was a 
 good one; — so good, indeed, that any man 
 who had never seen another book or never 
 heard a sermon preached could have found 
 his way to heaven by its teaching. Schu- 
 bert's excellent sermons were on the 
 Churches, Gospels, and Epistles, and were 
 read every Sabbath by John Hartrnan to his 
 family, except on those few Sabbaths that he 
 and his wife went to church, which gene- 
 rally took them two days. They had some 
 twenty-two miles to go to a church, which 
 
44 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 stood at the eastern foot of the Blue Moun- 
 tains ; I think it was near the place where 
 Rehrersburg now stands. 
 
 Thus this good man lived for some time 
 and walked with God. He had a good 
 farm; and, being industrious and frugal, he 
 nad every thing in plenty around him. In 
 Germany, he had hard work to get as much 
 coarse black bread as he needed, and meat 
 — he could get none ; here he had plenty of 
 fine wheat bread, and as much meat and 
 other things as he wanted. In Germany, 
 by the unjust laws, (laws there are only 
 made to favor the king and the nobility,) he 
 was not permitted to fish in the waters nor 
 to hunt in the forests, and, as he had no 
 money to spare, he had to deny himself 
 these luxuries ; but here, in America, he 
 could go to the streams and catch the beau- 
 tiful speckled trout whenever he pleased, 
 lie had learned the use, too, of the rifle; 
 and many a sturdy buck and shaggy bear 
 fell beneath his well-directed aim. Though 
 they had every thing of a worldly nature 
 that heart could wish, yet they often felt sad 
 and lonely ; for they remembered Zion, 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 45 
 
 and wept. They both longed for the courts 
 of the Lord's house; but no sweet-toned 
 bell ever broke the deep solitude of their 
 secluded retreat. They heard nothing but 
 the howling of the wolves and the distant 
 sound of the waterfalls. 
 
 One beautiful Sabbath morning in au- 
 tumn, when nature was arrayed in her ha- 
 biliments of decay and the forests clothed 
 in purple and gold, John Hartman was sit- 
 ting on a bench, under a grape-bower before 
 his door, in a deep mood, looking at the fall- 
 ing leaves and sadly thinking of other clays. 
 His wife had been busy with her house- 
 hold affairs. When she was done, she came 
 out and sat by his side, and, perceiving that 
 sad and gloomy thoughts were struggling 
 in his breast, she thus addressed him : — "My 
 dear husband, what makes you look so 
 sad?" " Oh," he replied, " I am just think- 
 ing about the fatherland. This is the Sab- 
 bath. I was just thinking that the people 
 at Reutlingen are now going to church; 
 and here we are, far from the courts of the 
 Lord. I thought I heard the sweet sound 
 of the bell on the old stone church; but it 
 
46 
 
 regixa; or, 
 
 was only imagination. Bring the Bible 
 here." She went in and brought it. He 
 read the eighty-fourth Psalm. This psalm 
 is not in German as it is in English. I 
 think it is better, and certainly plainer, in 
 German. Literally translated from the Ger- 
 man, it reads thus : — 
 
 "1. How amiable (or lovely) are thy habi- 
 tations, Lord of hosts ! 
 
 " 2. My soul longeth and anxiously look- 
 eth for the courts of the Lord : my body and 
 soul rejoice in the living God. 
 
 " 3. For the bird has found a house, and 
 the swallow has found her nest, where she 
 can hatch her young ones,—- even thine 
 altars, Lord of hosts, my Xing and my 
 God! 
 
 "4. Blessed are those who dwell in thine 
 house ! they praise thee continually. Sela. 
 
 "5. Blessed are those persons who hold 
 thee for their strength, and who follow thee 
 from their hearts. 
 
 " 6. Those who pass through the vale of 
 sorrow, and make therein springs of water 
 and the teachers, shall be favored with many 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 47 
 
 blessings, or (more literally) ornamented 
 with many blessings. 
 
 " 7. They achieve one victory after the 
 other, so that one must see that the true 
 God is in Zion. 
 
 " 8. Lord of hosts, hear my prayer ! give 
 ear, God of Jacob ! Sela. 
 
 " 9. God our shield, behold us, look upon 
 the kingdom of thy anointed. 
 
 " 10. For one day in thy courts is better 
 than a thousand. I would rather be the 
 door-keeper in the house of my God, than 
 to live a long time in the tents of the 
 wicked. 
 
 " 11. For the Lord God is a sun and a 
 shield ; the Lord gives grace and glory ; he 
 will withhold no good thing from the pious. 
 
 " 12. Lord of hosts, blessed is that man 
 who puts his trust in thee." 
 
 This beautiful psalm gave them great 
 comfort. It was just suited to their con- 
 dition, and they could understand it, espe- 
 cially the seventh verse, — " Those who pass 
 through the vale of sorrow, and make there- 
 in springs of water, and the teachers," (or 
 
48 
 
 regixa; or. 
 
 those who teach others,) " shall he orna* 
 mented with grace." This was the mean- 
 ing Hartman gave it, and it was the right 
 one. It would require a good deal of holy 
 ingenuity for a person not acquainted with 
 the Hebrew to gather much comfort from 
 the English version: — "Who passing 
 through the valley of Baca make it a well ; 
 the rain also fllleth the pools." 
 
 "John, John," said the pious wife, "you 
 must not despond with such glorious pro- 
 mises. We are in the path of duty; and, 
 although we cannot visit the house of God 
 as often as we wish, yet we have his holy 
 word, and we can worship the God of 
 our fathers even here in this wilderness. 
 God is here too ; look up at his great arched 
 temple above. Let us only be faithful, and 
 bring up our dear children in the fear and 
 nurture of the Lord ! We have promised 
 to do this at their baptism." 
 
 "I know it," John replied; "and that is 
 the thing that troubles me most. There is 
 George and Barbara are now old enough to 
 attend a course of catechetical lectures, or" 
 (as he called it) " to go to the minister. Well, 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 49 
 
 well," says John, " they shall go next Easter. 
 I will send them over the Blue Mountains 
 to Parson Kurtz." 
 
 This determination seemed to satisfy him. 
 John Hartman felt that the responsibilities 
 he assumed, when he had his children bap- 
 tized, were not fully discharged until his 
 children were fully instructed in religion, 
 and until they took the baptismal vows upon 
 themselves in confirmation. This was the 
 only significance he could see in infant bap- 
 tism, lie could see no advantage in 
 wicked, unconverted people having their 
 children baptized. Hence, an old, bearded 
 man, who lived in the same valley, and who 
 was very fond of controversy, could make 
 nothing out of Hartman in an argument on 
 infant baptism. The old bearded man, who 
 was a Dunkard, rejected sprinkling and in- 
 fant baptism ; but Hartman insisted upon 
 both, and, with his clear and scriptural 
 views, he had no difficulty in overcoming 
 his opponent. But he had now determined 
 that his two oldest children, George and 
 Barbara, were to go to catechize, and he 
 felt quite relieved. His wife, too, was de- 
 
 5 
 
50 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 lighted with the suggestion. It was not 
 merely to learn the letter of the catechism 
 that they were to go to the minister, for 
 they had both committed it to memory, 
 (and even little Eegina could say the Lord's 
 Prayer, and the creed, and the small ques- 
 tions ;) but they were to go in order to learn 
 its spirit, and, by the prayers and exhorta- 
 tions of the good pastor, to be converted to 
 God. They wanted their children to feel 
 and know that they were lost and ruined 
 sinners, and that nothing but the blood of 
 Christ could save them. They had been 
 awakened and converted under similar cir- 
 cumstances in Germany; and their good 
 old pastor, before they left Peutlingen, had 
 told them that the Lutheran church in 
 America was the same as that in Germany. 
 He knew Pastor Muhlenberg in Philadel- 
 phia, for he had seen him at Halle, and also 
 at Grosshennersdorf, where he (then Dea- 
 con Muhlenberg) was superintendent of an 
 orphan asylum. "You may depend upon 
 it," says the old pastor, "all those Lutheran 
 preachers in America who go with Pastor 
 Muhlenberg are the right kind of Lutherans." 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 51 
 
 This was a source of great comfort to 
 Hartman and his wife, that, though they 
 left their native country, they would not 
 have to leave their church, for that church, 
 thank God ! was transplanted to this West- 
 ern world a number of years before they 
 came. And here it was safe from the 
 storms of infidelity and rationalism which, 
 unfortunately, overran the mother church in 
 after-ages. 
 
 As it was the Sabbath, Mrs. Hartman 
 proposed that they w T ould now go into the 
 house and hold their worship. The chil- 
 dren all assembled; even the little Chris- 
 tian knew his place, on the little block in 
 the great chimney-corner; and, after hav- 
 ing read a chapter from the Bible, t/xy 
 sang that beautiful hymn, beginning- 
 
 "Allein und doch nicht gantz allein bin ich/ 
 
 which is, in English, — 
 
 "Alone, and not alone, am I, 
 
 Though in this solitude so drear; 
 
 I feel my Savior always nigh ; 
 
 He comes the weary hours to cheer. 
 
 I am with him, and he with me, 
 
 E'en here alone I cannot be." 
 
52 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 This beautiful hymn was a favorite hymn 
 with Mrs. Hartman. She generally sang it 
 when her husband was away. The chil- 
 dren had also learned it, and Regina often 
 sang it herself ; and you will see, in the fol- 
 lowing pages, one of the most thrillingly-in- 
 teresting scenes in the whole history of 
 true piety, connected with Regina and this 
 hymn. The singing and prayers cheered 
 up the hearts of those pious emigrants, and 
 they went on their way rejoicing. Thus 
 their solitude was sweetened by religion ; 
 they loved, feared, and worshipped God, 
 and God, according to his promise, com- 
 forted them in their exile. Their family de- 
 votions were never omitted ; family prayer 
 was no task to them, but a pleasure and a 
 delight. They were truly a happy family ; 
 the light of God's countenance shone upon 
 them. Every thing in their hands seemed 
 to prosper. They had a few German neigh- 
 bors; and a few friendly Indians occasion- 
 ally visited them, and always shared the 
 hospitality of their house. But the chil- 
 dren, especially Regina, were always afraid 
 ot them ; they looked so ugly, in their moc- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. J>3 
 
 casins and dirty blankets, and the great 
 brass rings they had in their ears. 
 
 Thus the Hartman family moved on, for 
 some time, with nothing to mar their peace ; 
 but, when affliction did come, it came like 
 a terrible storm. 
 
54 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 CHAPTER EL 
 
 Let us now look more minutely at this 
 pious and interesting German family in the 
 wilderness. 
 
 The family, as we have already stated, 
 consisted of the father, the mother, and four 
 children, — viz.: George, the eldest, aged 
 about fifteen years, but was large and stout 
 for his years ; Barbara, aged about thirteen ; 
 Regina, aged about ten, and little Christian, 
 aged about four and a half. Regina was 
 the pride of the family. Mrs. Hartman 
 sometimes playfully boasted that Regina 
 took after her family ; while John would in- 
 sist upon it that she w r as a Hartman out 
 and out. 
 
 It was a source of great pleasure to these 
 pious parents — and they often thanked God 
 for it — that their children were all sound in 
 body and well-formed, and had all their senses 
 in perfection. They were all dedicated to 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 65 
 
 God in holy baptism, when they promised to 
 bring them up in the fear and admonition of 
 the Lord ; and how faithfully they attended 
 to this duty the sequel will show. There 
 were, of course, no schools in their neigh- 
 borhood, and the parents had to instruct 
 them as well as they could during the long 
 winter evenings. George and Barbara had 
 gone some to school in Germany, and Re- 
 gina had learned to read, and little Chris- 
 tian could say his letters and spell a little. 
 They were all carefully taught the Lutheran 
 Catechism, and w T ere also taught to sing and 
 to pray. They were also early taught to 
 work and thus to make themselves useful. 
 They knew nothing about idleness, which 
 is so often the cause of mischief and bad 
 habits. They had their little German 
 plays, and remembered many little stories 
 which they had heard in Germany, and 
 sometimes their kind mother would tell 
 them one. They were brought up well, 
 and early taught to obey their parents. 
 They always spoke the truth, and never de- 
 nied any thing they had done. They were 
 early taught, too, to remember that God 3 
 
56 
 
 recjina; or, 
 
 who, though he dwells in the heavens, be- 
 holds all the thoughts and actions of little 
 children as well as grown persons. This 
 had an excellent effect upon their young 
 and tender minds. It was this thought that 
 made them such good children and saved 
 them from so many sins which most children 
 commit. 
 
 In order as much as possible to root out 
 of their naturally depraved hearts that in- 
 bred selfishness which is the lot of every 
 fallen child of Adam, the pious parents 
 tried to instill into their young and tender 
 hearts sentiments of generosity, love, and 
 benevolence. Even little Christian had his 
 natural selfishness so far overcome that he 
 would share his last crust of bread with Was- 
 ser, the faithful house-dog. If one of the 
 children would happen to find a fine lot of 
 wild strawberries, or raspberries, or grapes, 
 or any other kind of fruit, he would be 
 sure to bring them home and share with the 
 rest. And when they had any work to do, 
 the one would not put the most labor on 
 the other, but each one would do his or her 
 fal' part according to ability. If the cows 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 57 
 
 had to be hunted in the forest, or the pigs, 
 all wanted to go. Another very com- 
 mendable trait in these children was, that 
 they never quarrelled with each other, — not 
 even in sport, — but loved each other, and 
 were always kind and cheerful. Oh, what 
 happy children they were ! Would that all 
 the children that read this book were like 
 them. How clifferent do we often find it 
 among children of the same family! All 
 children could be happy if they would do 
 like these little German children of the 
 woods. For these dear little children were 
 by nature just like all other children. 
 
 John Hartman, like most of his country- 
 men, was naturally passionate and of a 
 hasty temper, and if the grace of God had 
 not renewed his wicked heart he would 
 have been, like the rest of them, ungovern- 
 able, and perhaps dangerous ; but religion 
 had changed the lion into the lamb. And 
 his wife, Magdalena, was truly a model wo- 
 man ; she was always cheerful and happy 
 and even-tempered. Her bright and cheer- 
 ful countenance always diffused joy and 
 happiness around her. If you want to see 
 
58 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 a fall-length portrait of this excellent Ger- 
 man housewife, just look at the thirty -first 
 chapter of Proverbs, and there you will find 
 it. Her price was indeed far above rubies ; 
 the heart of her husband could safely trust 
 in her; and, as it is in the German Bible, 
 "Nourishment was never wanting in her 
 house. She could make the spinning-wheel 
 hum and buzz most merrily ; her children 
 were always warmly clad. She feared not 
 the cold nor the snow. She opened her 
 mouth in wisdom, and on her tongue was 
 the law of kindness. She indeed did look 
 well to her household, and ate not the 
 bread of idleness. Her children called her 
 blessed, and her husband praised her." 
 
 Many a time did John Hartman thank 
 God for having given him such an excellent 
 companion. And well he might; for it was 
 she, in a great measure, had made him what 
 he then was ; her mild and amiable disposi- 
 tion had a powerful influence upon him. 
 What a rich blessing a pious wife is to a 
 family ! It is a hard thing for a wicked - 
 husband to resist the holy and calm influ- 
 ence of a pious wife. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 59 
 
 George was a fine, large boy, past fifteen, 
 and was a great help to his father; for he 
 could plough and harrow, and drive the 
 team, and chop wood, and, as he was 
 brought up to labor, he was as willing to 
 work as he was able. Barbara, too, was a 
 fine, hardy girl, and a great comfort to her 
 mother; she could knit, and sew, and spin, 
 and sometimes even did the baking. But 
 Eegina was the flower of the flock. She was 
 just turned of ten years, but was quite large 
 for her age. She was a beautiful girl; in- 
 deed, one seldom sees a more beautiful 
 creature in town or country than she was. 
 It is a pity that she lived before the art of 
 daguerreotyping was discovered, or before 
 the sun had got to be a portrait-painter, or 
 we should have had a picture of this moun- 
 tain maid in this book. In those days none 
 but the rich people had their portraits and 
 miniatures taken. But, fortunately, in my 
 youth I was acquainted with a number of 
 old people in Berks county who had known 
 Eegina Hartman well and recollected how 
 Bhe looked. She had a well-formed body, 
 i dither corpulent nor slender, and fine, 
 
(30 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 round, faultless head, covered with a pro- 
 fusion of soft, wavy, light auburn hair; a 
 bright hazel eye ; a Grecian nose ; a mouth 
 of exquisite mould; a fair, transparent skin, 
 and her cheeks rivalled the richest carmine 
 of the new-blown rose. She was full of life 
 and animation, always cheerful and happy. 
 THien she strolled — as she sometimes did — 
 through the dense forests, and exercised her 
 lungs in singing, she seemed like a sylvan 
 fairy. Her voice sounded delightfully un- 
 der the arched foliage of the lofty pines. 
 "When George was engaged with his father, 
 the girls, Barbara and Regina, had to hunt 
 the cows in the deep forests that surrounded 
 their father's house. On one occasion they 
 had gone farther into the forest than usual. 
 They heard a noise in the thick underwood : 
 and, on going nearer, they saw a great bear 
 with two cubs. They were dreadfully 
 alarmed. Little Christian, as usual, had 
 followed them. Barbara ran with all her 
 might, never thinking of her little brother. 
 But not so Eegina; she caught the child, 
 and carried it along until thev were safe. 
 She was a heroine. 
 
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 On another occasion Pegina lost her- 
 self. She had gone for whortleberries, and, 
 not thinking much, she went beyond her 
 range, or away from the grounds with which 
 she was acquainted. It was late in the after- 
 noon. At first she did not know she was 
 lost, but wandered on, and on, and on, 
 thinking she was going toward home ; and 
 all the while she w 7 as going farther away. 
 But when night began to settle down upon 
 the dense forest, oh, how horrible were her 
 feelings! She cried aloud; but no sound 
 save her own echo reached her ears. Poor 
 child ! what should she do or where should 
 she go? She pushed on through the thick 
 underwood as fast as she could, and the 
 darkness was increasing every moment. 
 At length, overcome by fright and fatigue, 
 she determined to lie down. It w T as now so 
 dark in the thick laurel-bushes that she could 
 not see any thing around her. Poor girl ! 
 she was in a bad way. She sat down by 
 the root of a large oak-tree, on an elevated 
 moss-covered root; there she sat, thinking 
 of home and her sad condition. The 
 wolves, too, were howling around her. At 
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 RE GIN A; OR, 
 
 length she felt sleepy; and, as she had 
 been taught never to go to sleep without 
 saying her prayers, she knelt down by the 
 side of the great oak, and, lifting up her 
 little heart to God, she said all the sweet 
 little prayers she had been taught, and then 
 commended herself into the hands of God 
 and laid down to sleep. She was soon in a 
 sound sleep. There she lay upon the soft 
 moss, and, as she was a good and pious 
 child, we may well imagine that the angels 
 of the Lord encamped round about her 
 and watched over this defenceless little one. 
 The same Almighty Berns: who had closed 
 the mouths of the lions in the den where 
 Daniel was, and caused an angel to slay in 
 one single night one hundred and eighty- 
 five thousand of the Assyrian host of the 
 impious Sennacherib, could he not com- 
 mission his angels to watch over this lost 
 child in the forest? But we will let the 
 poor lost child sleep upon her soft mossy 
 bed, with the assurance that He who has 
 numbered the hairs of our head, and with- 
 out whose notice not even a sparrow falls to 
 the ground, will watch over her. Sleep on, 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 63 
 
 sweet child ; God's eye guards thee. Let 
 us now return to the house. 
 
 John Hartman and his son George had 
 started to the mill that day with a grist; 
 and, as they had to wait until it was 
 ground, they did not get home until late 
 iu the evening. Wasser, too, had gone 
 along, for he always w T ent w T ith the wagon. 
 About sundown Mrs. Hartman became un- 
 easy about Regina. She questioned Bar- 
 bara and Christian very closely about her, 
 and could learn nothing more than that 
 they had all gone out to the whortleberry- 
 bushes together about the middle of the 
 afternoon, and that Regina had her little 
 basket nearly full of whortleberries when 
 they last saw her, up near the large chest- 
 nut-tree, from which father had once shot a 
 bear. They saw her picking whortleberries 
 and going toward the run ; and, as they had 
 their baskets full, they waited a long time 
 for her at the big chestnut-tree. And 
 when she did not come, Barbara went out 
 far into the woods and called as loud as she 
 could, but got no answer. She then con- 
 cluded that Regina went round by the 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 grape-vines and had gone home. As soon 
 as the mother heard this, she ran out to 
 the barn, calling Regina, and looking all 
 around for her, thinking that perhaps she 
 might have been very tired and laid down 
 to sleep; but no Regina was to be found. 
 She then ran up to the great chestnut-tree, 
 calling all the while with all her might. 
 She then returned to the house, and sat 
 down and cried for her poor lost child ! 
 It was now getting dark, and John Hart- 
 man was not at home, and what was to be 
 done she did not know. At one time she 
 thought she would plunge right into the 
 forest, and not give up until she had found 
 her lost child; but then she was not ac- 
 quainted with the forest, and might lose 
 herself and not find her child. If only 
 John and George were at home ! While 
 thus perplexed, and not knowing what to 
 do, the children heard the rattling of the 
 wagon. She could not wait until John got 
 into the house, but ran out and told him 
 that Regina was lost. John was not much 
 alarmed, for he knew he could find her. 
 So he went into the house, and told George 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 65 
 
 to ungear the horses and turn them into 
 the meadow. When he was in the house 
 he told his wife to get him a stocking be- 
 longing to Regina — one that had not been 
 washed since she had worn it. She won- 
 dered what he wanted with a stocking, but 
 she gave him one. 
 
 "Now," says he, "come, George, we will 
 eat a piece, and give Wasser a piece also, 
 and we will soon find our little lost girl, 
 who is, no doubt, asleep somewhere among 
 the pine-trees." 
 
 John took his rifle along, and George 
 took some fat pine-knots, so that they could 
 strike up a fire if necessary. 
 
 "Now," says he, "come, George and 
 Wasser; and you have the supper ready," 
 (addressing his wife,) "and we will soon 
 come back with Regina." 
 
 He took the direct route to the great 
 chestnut-tree. It was now near nine o'clock. 
 When he got into the forest he found it 
 much darker than he had supposed. At 
 first he had some difficulty in getting 
 along; but as his pupils dilated he could 
 see better. It was a clear, starlight night. 
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 REGIXA ; OR, 
 
 "When lie came to the great chestnut-treo 
 he stopped, and called Wasser to him, and 
 talked to him as he would to a man. 
 Wasser sat down on his haunches, and 
 looked very grave, and seemed to listen to 
 every thing that was said. 
 
 " Now, Wasser, Regina is lost, and you 
 must find her." Wasser wagged his tail, 
 which seemed to indicate that he under- 
 stood his master. John then took Re- 
 gina's stocking, and put it to Wasser's 
 nose. 
 
 "isow," says he, "such 'em out — such 'em 
 out!" 
 
 Wasser understood the matter now, — 
 and, putting his nose to the ground, ran 
 all around under the tree, until he fairly 
 got on Regina's track. As soon as he got 
 the scent of the stocking, he gave one loud 
 yell and started off up the hill. 
 
 " There," says John Hartman, "Wasser 
 is on the track, and the child is safe ! I 
 have never known that dog to give a false 
 alarm." 
 
 John Hartman and his son followed. 
 Every now and then Wasser would give a 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 67 
 
 sharp yell, which enabled them to keep on 
 the trail. They passed on mile after mile, 
 until they thought they were about four 
 miles from home. At last they heard the 
 well-known double yell of Wasser, nearly 
 half a mile off. 
 
 "There she is," says John; " he has 
 found her ! Thank God, the child is 
 found. She must have been much bewil- 
 dered to go so far from home. We must 
 keep down to the right; there, don't you 
 hear?" 
 
 But now let us look at Regina. She fell 
 into a sound sleep, but it did not last long ; 
 the howling of the wolves and the thoughts 
 of home disturbed her slumbers. She had 
 just awoke when she heard the first yell of 
 Wasser. She did not know the voice of 
 her faithful companion, but thought sure 
 enough the wolves were now coming upon 
 her. She was dreadfully alarmed ; nearer, 
 and still nearer came the sound. Then 
 she heard the brushwood trampled under 
 the feet of the approaching wolf. Deep 
 horror almost froze her very vitals ; she 
 screamed, but had not power to flee. The 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 next moment the faithful dog was there, 
 and jumped with his forefeet upon her, but 
 not, as she supposed, to tear her to pieces. 
 It was only when she found that she was 
 not torn to pieces that her thoughts began 
 to return. And it was not until Wasser be- 
 gan to lick her hand that she knew him, and 
 she then laughed through her tears and pat- 
 ted his shaggy head. Wasser now ran back 
 a short distance and barked. This brought 
 Hartman and George to the spot. When 
 Regina heard their voices she knew that 
 she was found. The father, too, was re- 
 joiced ; and George lighted a pine-knot, 
 and they retraced their steps. The dim out- 
 line of a mountain-ridge, which Hartman 
 could occasionally see, enabled him to keep 
 the direct course home. It was nearly 
 twelve o'clock when they returned ; and I 
 need not inform you that there was great 
 rejoicing in that house that night. It was 
 as if the dead were alive and the lost were 
 found. The mother wept for joy, and 
 kissed Regina over and over again. That 
 night John Hartman read in his family de- 
 votions the first part of the fifteenth chapter 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 69 
 
 of Luke, the parable of the lost sheep, and 
 made some appropriate remarks, especially 
 on the seventh verse. So, after eating a 
 good supper, they all retired to rest, think- 
 ing of the wonderful providence of God 
 that had restored their lost child. Wasset 
 had always been a great favorite in the 
 family, but by his exploit that night he had 
 endeared himself more than ever to the 
 whole family. John Hartman often said 
 he would rather lose the best horse on the 
 farm than to lose Wasser. And no won- 
 der; who would not love such a noble 
 dog ? 
 
 Nothing remarkable occurred in the 
 family for some time. The children were 
 obedient to their parents and improved 
 from day to day, and the parents thanked 
 God for giving them such excellent chil- 
 dren. Such was the happiness of the Hart- 
 man family, and so much w 7 ere they pleased 
 w r ith their new home in America, that Ger- 
 many was fast fading from their minds. 
 They were indeed a happy family. How 
 delightful it is to see a happy family in this 
 jarring and discordant world ! 
 
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 regixa; or, 
 
 Things prospered wonderfully in the 
 hands of Hartman and his industrious 
 family. The house was much improved 
 and furnished with many comforts ; the barn, 
 too, was enlarged; and the well-cultivated 
 fields groaned under the heavy weight of 
 the golden harvests. John Hartman looked 
 with pleasure at his fat, sleek horses, and 
 his well-fed cows, and his plentiful crops, 
 and wished in his heart that many of his 
 poor neighbors in Germany, who he knew 
 were often destitute of bread, could also be 
 his neighbors in America. If all the German 
 and Irish emigrants were as sober and in- 
 dustrious as John Hartman, there would not 
 be so many paupers among them. But, 
 alas ! many who come to this country be- 
 come indolent and intemperate, and of 
 course remain poor and miserable all their 
 lives ; and their coming here does not im- 
 prove their condition. 
 
 But we must pass on. When all things 
 were prosperous in the Hartman family, 
 and a long and happy future seemed to be 
 before them, God in his wisdom and won- 
 derful providence permitted a terrible ca- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 71 
 
 lamity to fall upon them, — such a dreadful 
 calamity as few families are ever called upon 
 to suffer. But, as the ways of God are past 
 finding out, and as he is too wise to err and 
 too good to afflict his people unnecessarily, 
 we must conclude that all he does or per- 
 mits is for the best. 
 
 Piety, however fervent and genuine, will 
 not exempt us from the afflictions of life. 
 All our afflictions are said to he mercies in 
 disguise. Well may we exclaim, in the 
 beautiful language of Cowper, — 
 
 u God moves in a mysterious way, 
 His wonders to perform ; 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
 And rides upon the storm ! 
 
 "Deep in unfathomable mines 
 Of never-failing skill, 
 Tfn treasures up his bright designs, 
 And works his sov'reign will." 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 CHAPTER TV. 
 
 THE DREADFUL CALAMITY THAT FELL UPON 
 THE HARTMAN FAMILY. 
 
 Hartman was not afraid of the wild men, 
 (die wUderiy) as he used to call the Indians. 
 And, as those whom he had seen at his own 
 house and at the trading-posts were friendly 
 and civil, and as he had never heard any 
 thing bad about them, he had no reason to 
 fear them. In those days there were no 
 books nor newspapers in the country to in- 
 form the people of one colony what took 
 place in another; so that Hartman did not 
 know the danger he was in on a frontier 
 settlement. Poor man ! he little understood 
 the nature of those cruel and bloodthirsty 
 savages. But he found them out at last. 
 
 In order fully to understand the state of 
 things in our country in 1744, (the year in 
 whioh the terrible calamity which we are 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 73 
 
 about to narrate foil upon the Hartman 
 family,) it will be necessary to refer to the 
 colonial history of that period. The Ameri- 
 can Indians, who were the aborigines or 
 first settlers of this country, were very nu- 
 merous when Columbus, in 1492, first came 
 to this western continent. They were 
 found from the sunny south of Central 
 America to the frozen regions of Labrador, 
 and all pretty much alike. But it is the 
 opinion of many learned men now, that the 
 races found in this country when Columbus 
 came were not the earliest settlers of the 
 soil, but that there were other and far more 
 intelligent races here before them, — races 
 who were much further advanced in the 
 arts and sciences than the present races. 
 This is inferred from the many monuments 
 found in Central America, Mexico, and in 
 the United States. If you want to know 
 any thing further on this interesting sub- 
 ject, you must get books on the antiquity 
 of America. We intend to confine our re- 
 marks to the Indians who w 7 ere here in 
 1744, and try to account for their extreme 
 wickedness and the reasons why they took 
 7 
 
74 
 
 regixa; or, 
 
 such delight in the shedding of the blood 
 of their fellow-creatures. The American 
 Indians were not half so bad before their 
 intercourse with the Spaniards at the South 
 and the French at the Xorth. At an early 
 day the Indians in Canada were brought 
 under the influence of the French Jesuits. 
 J3oth the French and Spanish missionaries 
 taught the Indians to hate the English be- 
 cause they were Protestants. The French 
 Roman Catholic missionaries had been la- 
 boring a long time among the Northern 
 Indians ; but their system of instruc- 
 tion amounted to nothing. Thev made 
 them ten times worse than they found 
 them. Instead of teaching them to read 
 God's holy word, they taught them to count 
 their beads ; and, instead of teaching them 
 to pray to their heavenly Father through 
 Jesus Christ, they taught them to pray to the 
 Virgin Mary; and, instead of directing them 
 to the blood of Christ, that "cleanses from 
 all sin." they taught them to rely upon the 
 foolish and unmeaning mummeries of the 
 priests for salvation. They baptized them 
 and called them Christians : and yet they 
 
TRUE FIETY AMOIW TIE LOWLY. 
 
 75 
 
 knew nothing of the spirit of Christianity. 
 Since that time many Protestant mission- 
 aries have labored among them, and many 
 have been truly converted to God, and are 
 bright and glorious examples of the power 
 of God's grace. Catharine Brown, who 
 died such a triumphantly happy death, and 
 whose piety has been celebrated throughout 
 the world, was an Indian girl ; and if you 
 ever visit Bethlehem, a Moravian town in 
 Northampton county, Pennsylvania, you 
 will see in the plain and beautiful grave- 
 yard in that town the tombs of many con- 
 verted Indians. But the poor Indians of 
 Canada would have been better off if the 
 Roman Catholic missionaries had never 
 come among them. 
 
 The French people were the first Euro- 
 peans who settled in Canada. Nearly three 
 hundred years ago, a Frenchman by the 
 name of James Cartier, with a French army, 
 sailed up the St. Lawrence River and built 
 a fort where the city of Quebec now stands. 
 From this point the first French mission- 
 aries went forth to convert the Indians to 
 Christianity. But a sad work they made of 
 
70 
 
 rbgtjta; or, 
 
 it, as we have already seen. Henry the 
 Fourth. King of France, appointed the Mar- 
 quis de la Eoche the first Governor-General 
 of Canada. The French held the undis- 
 puted possession of the country for more 
 than one hundred years, and in all that time 
 accomplished nothing. James Cartier lo- 
 cated his fort in 1535; but no permanent 
 settlement was made until 1607, when M. 
 de Champlain founded the present city of 
 Quebec. But such were the immoral ten- 
 dencies of the Eoman Catholic religion that 
 no regular government could be introduced 
 until about 1655 or 1660. In 1756, war was 
 declared between France and England. 
 The English, who then owned the territory 
 which now composes the most of the States 
 of our Union, had already, as early as 1740, 
 set their hearts on Canada. The English 
 said of right it belonged to them, the 
 French disputed their claim ; so there was no 
 other way but to right it out. A great many 
 battles were fought, the Indians always 
 lighting with the French against the Eng- 
 lish. Still, in the end, the French and the 
 Indians had the worst of the battle; for all 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 77 
 
 Canada fell into the hands of the English. 
 While the war lasted, the French officers did 
 all in their power to instigate the poor igno- 
 rant Indians to perpetrate deeds of cruelty 
 and blood. They were offered so much for 
 every white man or woman whom they 
 would murder. The scalp was the evidence 
 that they had killed a white man. Hence 
 they always scalped all they had murdered ; 
 and so anxious were they to get the scalp 
 that sometimes the person scalped was not 
 murdered; and there are cases on record 
 where persons were shot, tomahawked, and 
 scalped, and yet recovered. The scalping 
 was done in the following way : — the person 
 was either shot, tomahawked, or knocked 
 down with a club ; as soon as the poor vic- 
 tim was prostrated, the cruel savage rolled 
 him over on his back, then sprang upon him 
 with his knees on his breast, took hold of the 
 hair in the front part of the head with his 
 left hand and pulled with all his might, 
 then gave a tremendous yell, and applied 
 his scalping-knife and cut off a piece of skin 
 about as large as a child's hand, thus lay- 
 ing the skull bare. It was a horrible opera - 
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78 
 
 regixa; or, 
 
 tion, the very recital of which causes the 
 blood to curdle in our veins ; yet some In- 
 dians boasted of the hundreds of scalps 
 they had taken. It is said of an Eng- 
 lishman, that his wig once saved his 
 life. He was pursued by an Indian, who 
 felled him to the earth with a club and 
 jumped upon him, and, when he grasped 
 his hair, the whole skin came off. The In- 
 dian was so amused at this strange occur- 
 rence that he burst into a fit of laughter, 
 and, looking at the wig, he said, "It is a 
 lie;" and, entering into a parley with the 
 Englishman, let him off for the price of a 
 icalp, which was about fifteen shillings. It 
 must be said, to the honor of the French 
 officers, that they never paid the Indians 
 for the scalps of children and women. 
 Hence, not a great many women or chil- 
 dren were scalped, unless the Indians 
 were drunk or had some great wrongs to 
 avenge. 
 
 The savages would go out in parties of 
 from ten to fifty in a company, and, being 
 mostly inflamed with French brandy and 
 urged on with the hope of getting French 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 79 
 
 money, which would enable them to pro- 
 cure more brandy, they would stealthily 
 visit the sparsely-settled neighborhoods, and 
 murder and scalp all who would come in 
 their w r ay. They generally came over the 
 river below T the Niagara Falls, and, as the 
 western part of New York was then an un- 
 inhabited wilderness, they passed through 
 into Pennsylvania on their bloody excur- 
 sions. Sometimes, however, the English 
 were prepared for them, and gave them a 
 warm reception ; and many a bloodthirsty 
 Indian fell under the steady aim of the 
 hardy pioneer. The French and Indian 
 war continued with unabated fury for thir- 
 teen years, from 1745 to 1758, when, after 
 a bloody battle, General Wolfe's army 
 compelled the French to surrender Quebec, 
 though that brave general himself fell, 
 mortally wounded, and peace was made 
 soon after. But, during the period from 
 1744 to 1759, which may with great pro- 
 priety be called the " Bloody Age of 
 American History," what terrible scenes 
 were enacted ! It would require volumes 
 to record half the scenes of blood that 
 
80 regina; or, 
 
 came to light; and thousands of the most 
 cruel murders committed have, no doubt, 
 never been known. The whole history 
 of the world can hardly present such 
 another picture of bloodshed and rapine. 
 We here subjoin an account of two men 
 that were scalped, one of whom recovered. 
 This occurred at the siege of Fort Stanwix, 
 in 1777. 
 
 " Captain Gregg left the garrison one 
 day, in company with a corporal, for the 
 purpose of shooting wild pigeons. When 
 the day was far advanced, Gregg, knowing 
 that the savages were continually prowling 
 around the fort, made up his mind to re- 
 turn. At that moment a flock of pigeons 
 alighted upon a tree close by. The corporal 
 proposed to try a shot at them, and, having 
 approached near enough, was in the act of 
 raising his gun, when the report of two mus- 
 kets was heard close by. Captain Gregg 
 that instant saw his companion, the corpo- 
 ral, fall, and felt himself badly wounded in 
 the side. He tried to keep his feet, but could 
 not; he fell to the earth, and the next mo- 
 ment saw a huge half-naked savage making 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 81 
 
 rapid strides toward him with his tomahawk 
 in his hand. He was horrified, for he was 
 powerless. The Indian ran up to him w T ith 
 the uplifted tomahawk and struck him 
 several blows on the head, then drew his 
 scalping-knife, cut a circle through the skin 
 from the forehead to the crown of his head, 
 and drew off the scalp with his teeth. At 
 the approach of the savage, Gregg had 
 counterfeited the appearance of being dead 
 with as much address as he could use, and 
 succeeded in persuading his butcher that 
 he was actually dead, otherwise he w T ould 
 certainly have been killed. The pain pro- 
 duced by these wounds was intense and 
 dreadful. The savages, having finished 
 their bloody work, withdrew. As soon as 
 they were out of sight, Captain Gregg 
 determined to make his way to his fallen 
 companion; but he found himself very 
 weak, and it was only after three or four 
 attempts that he was able to rise. When 
 he came to his companion he found him 
 dead and scalped. Captain Gregg was 
 found by his companions-in-arms, and car- 
 ried back to the fort, where, under pro- 
 
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 REGIXA *, OR, 
 
 per medical treatment, he recovered, and 
 lived many years afterward without a 
 scalp." 
 
 The Rev. Dr. H. Melchior Muhlenberg, 
 in the "Hallean Annals," page 1006, gives 
 us the following thrilling account of an 
 Indian scalping which occurred about 
 the time of the Hartman massacre. He 
 says : — 
 
 "Among my catechumens at New Hol- 
 land were the two grown daughters of a 
 man, who, after the confirmation of his 
 children, purchased a piece of land near 
 the Blue Mountains. This land, by much 
 labor, he improved, and removed his family 
 to it. But, as the Indian war was then 
 raging most fearfully, the wild and fero- 
 cious savages frequently fell upon the iso- 
 lated settlers, set fire to their houses and 
 barns, and those whom they did not massa- 
 cre they carried into captivity. This man, 
 being afraid of the Indians, brought his 
 family back to New Holland, but left his 
 cattle and grain at the new farm, and occa- 
 sionally went up to see after them. In the 
 fall of the year this man went up to the 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 80 
 
 new farm, with the two daughters above- 
 referred to, for the purpose of threshing 
 the grain and bringing it down to Xew 
 Holland. They went up, did the thresh- 
 ing, and were nearly ready to return with a 
 load of grain. The wagon was loaded in 
 the evening, and on Saturday morning 
 they intended to start for home. On Fri- 
 day evening the two girls seemed to be 
 very melancholy. They told their father 
 that they felt as though they had not long 
 to live, and proposed singing the German 
 hymn, commencing, — 
 
 " 1 Wer weiss wie nahe mir mein ende?' / 
 
 In English, — 
 
 " ' Who knows how near my life's expended? 
 
 Time flies, and death is hasting on ; 
 How soon, my term of trial ended, 
 
 May heave my last expiring groan ! 
 For Jesus' sake, when flesh shall fail, 
 With me, God, may all he well ! 
 
 " ' My many sins ! — oh, vail them over 
 
 With merits of thy dying Son ! 
 I here thy richest grace discover, — 
 
 Here find I peace, and here alone : 
 And, for his sake, when flesh shall fail, 
 With me, God, may it be well ! 
 
84 
 
 regixa; or, 
 
 u * His bleeding wounds give me assurance 
 That thy free mercy will abide ; 
 Here strength I find for death's endurance, 
 
 And hope for all I need beside: 
 For Jesus' sake, when flesh shall fail, 
 With me, God, may it be well V" 
 
 il This beautiful hymn they sang from be- 
 ginning to end ; and after they had said 
 their prayers they retired to rest. On 
 Saturday morning they rose early and said 
 their prayers. That morning the sun arose 
 clear and bright. It was a calm and lovely 
 morning ; not a breath of air w r as stirring. 
 The father told the girls that they should 
 milk the cows, while he would go out into 
 the field to catch the horses and hitch 
 them up. When he had gone into a large 
 field, he stood close by a large tree, and 
 was looking around for the horses. All 
 at once he saw two Indians rushing 
 upon him with loaded rifles and other 
 deadly weapons. The poor man was so 
 much terrified that he became entirely 
 powerless. He could neither move hand 
 or foot, nor could he utter a word. He was 
 stupefied with fear; all his senses seemed 
 to be dead but his vision. He saw the 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 85 
 
 savages rapidly approaching ; they were 
 now within about twenty paces of him. 
 He then cried out, — ' Lord Jesus, to 
 thee I lice! Lord Jesus, to thee I die! 1 
 but, as soon as he had, w T ith a loud voice, 
 uttered the words, 'Lord Jesus,' the In- 
 dians stopped suddenly, like a bear that is 
 shot; — they stopped short and commenced 
 a terrible howling. Scarcely had the poor 
 man uttered the name of Jesus when he 
 felt a supernatural strength ; he felt as 
 though he had wings, turned round and 
 ran like a deer, not toward his house, but 
 toward the forest. The Indians were close 
 behind him, and quickened their steps, be- 
 ing sure they would overtake him before he 
 would get out of the field. But our friend 
 had such strength that he jumped like a 
 deer over the fence; and when in the forest 
 he ran in a zigzag or serpentine course, and 
 the Indians soon lost sight of him. This 
 was a narrow escape. The Indians then 
 returned to his house, — where there were 
 a number of other Indians, — and there 
 perpetrated their deeds of cruelty. Out 
 friend then bent his steps to a neighbor- 
 8 
 
86 
 
 regixa; or, 
 
 ing house, where two German families re- 
 sided, with the hope of procuring help 
 from them to defend his children and pro- 
 perty. But, alas! when he came near the 
 house he heard a terrible noise and cry- 
 ing of old and young, and soon perceived 
 that a party of Indians were then engaged 
 in murdering the families. Fortunate!} 
 the Indians did not see him. He now 
 thought of his own children, and started 
 for his own house. But, alas! when he 
 came near his own residence he saw the 
 flames of his house and barn rising over 
 the tree-tops, and heard the terrible bellow- 
 ing of his cattle that were burning up 
 alive. He then ran several miles back to 
 a German settlement and gave the alarm. 
 The men soon equipped themselves and 
 came with him to his house. When they 
 reached his house the Indians were gone 
 Mnd every thing was in ashes. His eldest 
 daughter was consumed, all but a few frag- 
 ments of her body; but the second daugh- 
 ter, to the astonishment of all, was yet 
 alive, but i \c and gashed from head to foot 
 with the tomahawk, and also scalped. The 
 
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 poor girl could yet inform them of every 
 thing that had occurred, and how many In- 
 dians there were. She then requested her 
 father to stoop down and give her a fare- 
 well kiss, then she would go to her dear 
 Savior. When this was done she departed 
 in peace. 
 
 " The poor man came to me, and, with 
 deep emotion and many tears, related the 
 whole terrible scene. 
 
 " He also spoke in wonder of the power 
 there was in the name of Jesus, and how 
 he had now experienced the sweetness of 
 that dear name, and that he would never 
 forget it. 
 
 " I showed him how Jesus would de- 
 liver him out of more terrible dangers, 
 even from sin, death, Satan, and hell, 
 and would make him eternally happy in 
 heaven." 
 
 This terrible scene will prepare us for 
 another which is soon to follow. What 
 dangers must have surrounded those early 
 settlers ! and how thankful we should be to 
 our heavenly Father for the peace and 
 safety we now enjoy. God be praised for 
 
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 it! Colonel George Washington was first 
 brought into notice during the period of 
 those Indian massacres. The terrible 
 scenes of carnage and blood in Virginia, 
 as well as in Pennsylvania, awakened the 
 sj'mpathies of all good men in the colonies; 
 and no man was more affected by the 
 daily massacres that occurred than Wash- 
 ington, even when he was quite a young 
 man. He was born on the 22d of Febru- 
 ary, 1732; in 1752, he was twenty years 
 old. Let it be borne in mind that at that 
 time the French — who were the allies of 
 the Indians and their instigators and abet- 
 tors in all their cruelties — were then in 
 possession of Canada and all the country 
 now composing Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, 
 Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Arkan- 
 sas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky. 
 And all this vast territory was full of In- 
 dians. Thus the English colonies were 
 completely surrounded by the French and 
 Indians. All, therefore, who lived on the 
 borders of the States were in danger of 
 the Indians. Nor were the armies of the 
 King of England able to protect such an 
 
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 immense frontier; for while the English 
 army was repelling the Indians at one 
 point the savages would break in upon 
 another, and, before help could arrive, 
 tomahawk and scalp all who would come in 
 their way. Hence it was absolutely neces- 
 sary that private military companies should 
 be formed in every settlement where men 
 enough could be raised. Forts, too, had to 
 be erected at different points, into which, 
 in time of danger, the poor defenceless 
 settlers could run for protection. George 
 Washington was placed at the head of & 
 company of this kind, called the Vir- 
 ginia Rangers, and he did great service to 
 his poor exposed countrymen. It was in 
 this noble service that young Washington 
 learned to fight the battles of his country — 
 those glorious battles which liberated our 
 fathers from the oppression of a foreign 
 king. In these excursions Colonel Wash- 
 ington frequently witnessed scenes of blood 
 and cruelty such as are enough to curdle 
 one's blood and cause the hair to stan<? 
 erect on 'ne's heal. We will give one of 
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 those dreadful scenes, from " Weems's Life 
 of Washington." Washington says: — ■ 
 
 " One day, as we drew near a dwelling, 
 we heard the report of a gun. Quickening 
 our pace, we saw very soon what were a 
 party of Indians, loaded with plunder, com- 
 ing out of a house, which, hy the smoke 
 issuing from the windows, appeared as if 
 just set on fire. On rushing into the house 
 and putting out the fire, we saw a mournful 
 sight indeed ! There was a young-looking 
 woman lying on the bed, floating in her own 
 warm blood! Her head was cleft with a 
 tomahawk; and on her bosom lay two lovely 
 infants, apparently twins, bathing that bosom 
 with the crimson current of life yet flowing 
 from their deeply-gashed heads ! I had 
 often beheld the mangled remains of my 
 countrymen, but never before felt as I did 
 on this occasion. This sight filled my mind 
 with horror! On tracing the footsteps of 
 the savages back to the corn-field, we found 
 a small boy, and, a little farther on, the 
 father, both weltering in their own blood, 
 tomahawked and scalped. It appeared, 
 from the prints of his little feet in the fur- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 91 
 
 rows, that the child had been following his 
 father, who was plowing: and, seeing his 
 father fall, he attempted to run back to his 
 mother, but was overtaken by the cruel 
 savages and tomahawked These things so 
 affected me that I solemnly declare before 
 God, if I know my own heart, that I 
 would offer myself a sacrifice to these 
 butchering savages, if I could thereby se- 
 cure the safety of these my distressed coun- 
 trymen." 
 
 This was a noble sentiment, worthy of the 
 great " Father of his Country." 
 
 Scenes like these were of common 
 almost daily occurrence. One day the In- 
 dians came to a school-house, where there 
 were, I think, seventeen little children, 
 who, together with the teacher, were all 
 tomahawked and scalped. This school- 
 house was in Franklin county, Pennsyl- 
 vania, about four miles from the town of 
 Greencastle. A few years ago, the citizens 
 raised a monument on the spot where these 
 dear little murdered ones sleep. This was 
 noble conduct! 
 
 Thus you see those cruel savages spared 
 
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 neither women nor children. In war, too, 
 these savages were terrible in their ferocity 
 and cruelty. 
 
 When Lord. Suffolk, in the House of 
 Lords in England, in 1777, tried to defend 
 the proposition to employ the American In- 
 dians in the war with the colonies, William 
 Pitt, or Lord Chatham, — who was one of the 
 finest orators the world had ever seen, — op- 
 posed it in the following language — lan- 
 guage that honors the head and the heart 
 of that great statesman. This, too, gives 
 us a true picture of Indian cruelties. Lord 
 Suffolk had said, in debate, that, "besides 
 its policy and necessity, the measure was 
 also allowable on principle, and that it 
 was perfectly justifiable to use all the 
 means that God and nature put into our 
 hands." To this Pitt replied. — 
 
 ••I am astonished — yea, shocked — to hear 
 such principles confessed, — to hear them 
 avowed in this house or in this country : — 
 principles equally unconstitutional, inhu- 
 man, and unchristian ! 
 
 ••My lords. I did not intend to have 
 encroached again upon your attention; but 
 
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 I cannot repress my indignation. I feel 
 myself impelled by every duty. My lords, 
 we are called upon, as members of this 
 house, as men, — as Christian men, — to pro- 
 test against such notions standing near the 
 throne, polluting the ear of majesty. 6 That 
 God and nature has put in our hands V I know 
 not what ideas that lord may entertain of 
 God and nature; but I know that such 
 abominable principles are equally abhorrent 
 to religion and humanity. What! to attrib- 
 ute the sacred sanction of God and nature 
 to the massacres of the Indian's scalping- 
 knife! to the cannibal savage torturing, 
 murdering, roasting, and eating, literally, 
 my lords, the mangled victims of his bar- 
 barous battles ! Such horrible notions shock 
 every precept of religion, divine or natural, 
 and every generous feeling of humanity. 
 And, my lords, they shock every sentiment 
 of honor; they shock me, as a lover of 
 honorable war and a detester of murderous 
 barbarity. 
 
 u These abominable principles, and this 
 more abominable avowal of them, demand 
 the most decisive indignation. I call upon 
 
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 that right reverend bench, — those holy 
 ministers of the gospel and pious pastors 
 of our church; — I conjure them to join me 
 in this holy work and vindicate the religion 
 of their God. I appeal to the wisdom and 
 the law of this learned bench to defend 
 and support the justice of their country. I 
 call upon the bishops to interpose the un- 
 sullied sanctity of their lawn, upon the 
 learned judges to interpose the purity of 
 their ermine, to save us from this pollution. 
 I call upon the honor of your lordships to 
 reverence the dignity of your ancestors and 
 to maintain your own. I call upon the 
 spirit and humanity of my country to vin- 
 dicate the national character. I invoke the 
 genius of the Constitution. From the tapes- 
 try that adorns these walls the immortal 
 ancestor of this noble lord frowns with in- 
 dignation at the disgrace of his country. 
 In vain he led your victorious fleets against 
 the boasted 'Armada' of Spain; in vain he 
 defended and established the honor, the 
 liberties, the religion, — the Protestant reli- 
 gion, — of this country against the arbitrary 
 cruelties of Popery and the Inquisition, if 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 95 
 
 these more than Popish cruelties ar.d in- 
 quisitorial practices are let loose among us ; 
 to turn forth into our settlements — among 
 our ancient connections, friends, and rela- 
 tions — the merciless cannibal thirsting for 
 the blood of man, woman, and child ! To 
 send forth the infidel savage — against 
 whom ? Against your Protestant brethren ; 
 to lay waste their country, to desolate their 
 dwellings, and extirpate their race and 
 name, with these horrible hell-hounds of 
 savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage 
 war! Spain armed herself with bloodhounds 
 to extirpate the wretched natives of America, 
 and we improve on the inhuman example 
 of Spanish cruelty; — w T e turn loose these 
 savage hell-hounds against our brethren 
 and countrymen in America of the same 
 language, laws, liberties, and religion, en- 
 deared to us by every tie that should sanc- 
 tify humanity ! 
 
 "My lords, this aw 7 ful subject, so import- 
 ant to our honor, constitution, and our reli- 
 gion, demands the most effectual and solemn 
 inquiry. And I again call upon your lord- 
 ships, and the united powers of the state, to 
 
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 examine it thoroughly and decisively, and 
 to stamp upon it the indelible stigma of the 
 public abhorrence. And I again call upon 
 those prelates of our holy religion to do 
 away these iniquities from among us. Let 
 them perform a lustration ; let them purify 
 this house and this nation from this sin ! 
 
 " My lords, I am old and weak, and at 
 present unable to say more; but nry feel- 
 ings and indignation were too strong to 
 have said less. I could not have slept this 
 night in my bed, nor reposed my head upon 
 my pillow, without giving this vent to my 
 eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and 
 enormous principles." 
 
 But the mighty orator, with his burning 
 eloquence, could not prevail. The law was 
 passed ; and the murderous tomahawk and 
 the bloody scalping-knife of the American 
 savages were employed against their breth- 
 ren. But — thank God ! — our noble revo- 
 lutionary sires overcame the soldiers of the 
 king as well as his savage allies. 
 
 These cruel savages have, since the Revo- 
 lution, been severely punished for the inno- 
 cent blood they shed. The blood of the 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 97 
 
 poor innocent men, women, and children 
 vvhich they so wantonly shed cried to God 
 for vengeance; and his wrath has been 
 poured out upon them, and the end is not 
 yet come. They have been driven from 
 the land of their fathers' graves; for, like 
 the ancient Canaanites, they were not fit to 
 live in it. Thus it is with wicked nations 
 and wicked individuals : God punishes them 
 for their sins; and if they do not reform he 
 must destroy them, as he did the Jews and 
 many other ancient nations. 
 
 " Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he 
 also reap." Ages may intervene between 
 the perpetration of a crime and its punish- 
 ment, but it will come at last. The Jews, 
 who clamored for the death of Christ, said, 
 "His blood be upon us and our children!" 
 This impious prayer was recorded on high, 
 and at length it was answered in the 
 destruction of Jerusalem and the terrible 
 calamities that befell the whole Jewish 
 nation. 
 
 But it is time we should return to the 
 Hartman family and see what is going on 
 
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 there. The}- are still prosperous and every 
 thing going on well. Oh that it was always 
 so ! 
 
 John Hartman and his interesting family 
 were growing in grace day by day. John 
 himself, during the summer, had become 
 more serious and heavenly-minded; and, 
 although he was as well as usual, be bad a 
 presentiment that he would be called away 
 from his family. He was now only forty- 
 five years old, and bid fair to live many 
 years, as his wife often told him when he 
 expressed his fears that he was not long for 
 this world. During the summer he had 
 been very successful on his farm ; be had 
 abundant crops. The autumn had come; 
 the forests were clothed in purple and gold, 
 and the withered leaves were beginning: to 
 strew the earth. Nature was in her decay ; 
 the withered leaf and the decayed grass re- 
 minded Hartman of his own state, — a poor 
 perishing creature. He often thought of 
 that dreadful passage in Isa. lxiv. 6 : — " We 
 all do fade as a leaf;" which reads in Ger- 
 man, " We are all withered like leaves ;" 
 and Psalm cii. 12, in German, " My days 
 
HARTMAN'S RETURN FROM HIS DAY'S LABOR. 
 
 (98.) 
 
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 are gone like a shadow, and I am withered 
 like grass." 
 
 There was something peculiarly solemn to 
 his mind in the autumn of the year. He 
 would spend hours in deep meditation 
 when gazing upon the variegated forest. 
 The work was rather pressing upon him at 
 this time; October had come, and he was 
 not yet done plowing for his fall-seeding. 
 Some of his fields were seeded and others 
 were nearly ready. The children, too, were 
 now busy gathering chestnuts, and hickory- 
 nuts, and walnuts ; and Hartman had prom- 
 ised the children that as soon as the seed- 
 ing was over George might take them down 
 to a large swamp, where there were a great 
 many fine large shell barks. 
 
 One day, when Hartman was out in the 
 field, one of his nearest neighbors— who 
 had been over the Blue Mountains on some 
 business — stopped a while to talk with him, 
 and, among other things, informed him 
 that the Indians had been about, and had 
 committed a number of horrible murders 
 all around them, and that lie had seen 
 old Conrad Weiser at Heidelberg ; and he 
 
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 EEC in a; or, 
 
 advised him and all the people that lived 
 over the mountains either to move out 
 of the settlement or to erect a temporary 
 fort 
 
 But poor Hartman did not believe that 
 the Indians would harm any person who 
 had never done them any harm. He used 
 to say, when he heard of Indians, that " it 
 was only the drunken Irish killing one 
 another." So he paid no attention to the 
 advice of his neighbor. 
 
 Thus thing's passed on until the storm 
 came. On the morning of the day on 
 which the dreadful calamity occurred, John 
 Hartman had been more than usually fer- 
 vent and solemn in his family devotions. 
 He committed himself and his dear family 
 into the hands of God. " Keep us this day 
 from harm and danger; nevertheless, not 
 our will, but thine, be done." At the break- 
 fast-table his wife said. — 
 
 " AVell. John, you know the flour is all 
 out, and some one must go to the mill ; and, 
 as you are at the last field, suppose you let 
 Christian go. and I will go with him ; for I 
 have long since promised to go over and 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 101 
 
 see Mrs. Svvartz, who you know has been 
 sick." 
 
 "Well," Hartman replied, "if you think 
 he can ride the old horse on a hag, 1 have 
 no objections ; then George and I can finish 
 the seeding to-day. But you must see that 
 the miller divides the flour right and puts 
 it on the horse even." 
 
 Little Christian was of course delighted 
 with the idea of riding the old horse to the 
 mill. The arrangements between Christian 
 and his mother were that she was to ride 
 the horse to the mill, (for the wheat was 
 already at the mill,) and the little hoy was 
 to ride behind her ; coming home, the mo- 
 ther, who was a very stout and active wo- 
 man, was to walk, and Christian was to 
 ride on the meal-bag, and the mother was 
 to lead the horse over the rough places. So, 
 after the work was done and the mother 
 had given her directions to the girls, Barbara 
 and Regina, about cooking the dinner, and 
 promising to he hack before supper, they 
 started oiF. 
 
 Mrs. Hartman did not spend much time 
 at her toilet. The women in the country 
 
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 REGINA ; OR, 
 
 in those clays wore very plain clothes. A 
 clean woolen petticoat, with a red ground 
 and a white stripe, and a short-gown of lin- 
 sey-woolsey cross-barred with red and green, 
 and a neat plain cap without frill or lace, 
 and a red linen handkerchief over her 
 bosom; for in those days the country-peo- 
 ple had no calico or gingham. 
 
 In going to the mill she had to pass the 
 field where her husband was at work. She 
 waited until he came up to the fence, and 
 they had some conversation. Little did 
 those unfortunate parents think that this 
 would be the last conversation they would 
 ever hold in this world. God, for wise 
 purposes, has hidden the future from our 
 eyes. How true it is that we know not 
 what a day may bring forth ! 
 
 "Live! live to-day; to-morrow never yet 
 On any human being rose or set." 
 
 What a blessing it is that we are not per- 
 mitted to lift the dark vail of the future to 
 see our own destiny! how wretched and 
 miserable it would make us ! If, like John 
 Hartman, we have made our peace, calling, 
 and election sure, and have our lamps 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 103 
 
 trimmed, we need not fear the coming of 
 the Son of man. 
 
 The girls were busy in the house ; and at 
 noon, when the dinner was nearly ready, 
 Barbara took down the great tin horn and 
 blew T it. The men heard the horn and im- 
 mediately obeyed its welcome summons. 
 When George and his father had watered 
 and fed the horses, they went into the house 
 and sat down to dinner. While they were 
 at dinner, the dog, Wasser, came running 
 into the house at a furious rate, and seemed 
 to be terribly frightened. He was a brave, 
 noble dog, and very fierce, and seemed to 
 be afraid of nothing. As soon as Hartman 
 saw the terror of the dog, he knew that 
 something unusual had occurred; and, w T ith 
 the ready instinct of an old hunter, he sprang 
 for his trusty rifle, which was always loaded, 
 and hung on two crooked pins over the bed. 
 He looked at the priming-pan and found all 
 was right. He then spoke to the dog, which 
 at once obeyed him ; but when he got to the 
 door he stood still, bristling up and growl- 
 ing in a fierce and terrible manner. Han 
 man could not yet see what it was; but he 
 
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 REGINA J OR, 
 
 gave the word of command, which the faith- 
 ful dog well understood, and the next mo- 
 ment he sprang upon a huge Indian and 
 brought him to the ground. Hartman then 
 came to the door, and just as he was stepping 
 over the threshold he received two riHe 
 halls, one through the head, the other through 
 the heart, and immediately fell a dead man. 
 The Indians then got at the dog with their 
 tomahawks, and, though he fought like a 
 tiger, and bit and wounded a number of the 
 Indians, yet he was killed at last. Xoble dog ! 
 he deserved a better fate. Instantly George 
 sprang to his father and tried to raise him 
 up ; for the poor boy could not yet fully 
 realize what had taken place. As he was 
 standing over his father the Indians closed 
 around him, and one of them sank his mur- 
 derous tomahawk into his head. The brave 
 boy fell upon the dying body of his father, 
 and both father and son were soon in the 
 arms of death. Fifteen large Indians, all 
 painted and feathered for scenes of carnage 
 and blood, then rushed into the house, yell- 
 ing most hideously, like so many fiends from 
 the infernal regions. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 105 
 
 One can scarcely imagine what the feel- 
 ings of the poor girls were during this 
 awful ly terrific scene. Barbara ran up into 
 the loft and hid herself, but a cruel savage 
 followed her and brought her back. Re- 
 gina was horrified, and cried out in Ger- 
 man, at the top of her voice, u Herr Jesus! 
 Herr Jesus /" When the Indians heard that 
 sound, they seemed terror-stricken for a 
 moment. One of them, however, could 
 speak a little French ; but Regina could 
 not understand a word he said. But 
 by his gestures she understood he wanted 
 liquor. His name was, as she afterward 
 learned, Hammaoslu, which means a " ti- 
 ger's claw." This huge and hideous half- 
 naked savage seemed to be the chief of the 
 brutal gang. He caught hold of Regina with 
 his left hand and shook her most violently, 
 while he held a seal ping-knife in his right 
 hand, which he drew over her lips, which 
 she understood was, that she should be 
 quiet. But she thought her last moment 
 had come. The Indians then went to the 
 table — all but one who stood at the door as 
 sentinel. When they had eaten up all the 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 bread and meat and potatoes, they motioned 
 to the girls tor more ; and when Barbara 
 went ont toward the spring-house for bread 
 and pies, two of the Indians followed her. 
 They ate a prodigious quantity. When 
 they had filled themselves, they imme- 
 diately commenced plundering the house ; 
 chests were broken open, drawers were 
 emptied, every thing was ransacked. They 
 took linens and woolens, blankets and 
 sheets and coverlets, and tied them up in 
 bundles. They made some six or seven 
 bundles. They then took Barbara and Re- 
 gina out. It was then that the Hartman girls 
 saw for the first time a dear sweet little girl, 
 about three years old, tied fast to the fence. 
 They were taken in the same direction, and 
 were permitted to go to her. "When the 
 poor little child saw them, she wept, and 
 said, in German, " Oh, mama, mama! wo ist 
 mei mutter?" — " Oh, mamma, mamma ! where 
 is my mother ?" The girls then saw that she 
 too was a little German captive. She could 
 only tell her first or Christian name, which 
 was Susan, or, as she said, Suse. But more 
 of this littlfc captive hereafter. The Indians 
 
TRUE piety among the lowly. 107 
 
 had not yet completed their work of ruin ; 
 the house and barn must be laid in ashes. 
 The way they set fire to the house w T as this : 
 there was a large quantity of flax up-stairs ; 
 this they threw down, and built a fire by 
 placing chairs and benches and drawers 
 upon it. This was near the partition. They 
 then took a firebrand from the hearth. Soon 
 the whole house was in flames. When the 
 fire was fairly underway, one of them took a 
 brand and set fire to the barn ; and soon all 
 the result of John Hartman's labors, to- 
 gether with his own body and that of his 
 son George, were in ashes. While the 
 flames were raging, the Indian who had 
 been inj ured by the dog took the dead ani- 
 mal by the hind-legs and tossed him into 
 the fire, whereupon they all set up a kind 
 of a war-dance, singing, shouting, and yell- 
 ing, at a most fearful rate, the poor girls 
 all the while expecting that they would fall 
 next beneath the murderous tomahawk. 
 They were spared from immediate death, 
 but met a fate very little better. At the 
 conclusion of this horrible chapter, perhaps 
 eome of the readers will ask, Why did God 
 
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 rbgina; or, 
 
 permit such a terrible calamity to fall upon 
 Bach an excellent family? We can only 
 answer this question l>y stating that God's 
 ways are past finding out ; his ways are not 
 as our ways, nor are his thoughts like ours. 
 We might, with the same propriety, ask, 
 Why did he permit his ancient prophets to 
 be slain by the wicked ? why did he per- 
 mit the wicked Jews to stone Stephen to 
 death ? or why has he permitted the wicked 
 in every age to persecute his people ? For 
 the same reason that he permits the sun to 
 rise upon the evil and the good, he also per- 
 mits calamities to fall upon the good as well 
 as the evil. 
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE WIDOW AND HER ONLY SON — ALL THAT IS 
 LEFT OF A ONCE HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 
 FAMILY. 
 
 We last saw Mrs. Hartman on the old 
 horse, with little Christian behind her, on 
 their way to the mill, talking with John 
 Hartman at the fence. Ah, little did this 
 unfortunate family think this w T ould be 
 the last time they w 7 ould ever meet in this 
 life ! Little did Mrs. Hartman think that 
 when she left her dear husband she should 
 never see him again in this world ! When 
 she turned round the corner of the field, 
 and saw the smoke gracefully ascending 
 from the chimney of her happy home, little 
 did she expect to find it a heap of ashes on 
 her return ! But so it was ; such was the 
 cup of sorrow this good and holy woman 
 was called upon to drink. 
 
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 regixa; or, 
 
 Mrs. Hartman went on to the mill, and, 
 according to arrangements, she spent the 
 day with the miller's wife, who had heen 
 very sick, hut was now improving. The 
 miller and his wife had also come from 
 Germany; and although they, too, were 
 members of the Lutheran church, yet they 
 had very little experimental knowledge of 
 religion. The severe attack of illness had 
 a very happy effect upon the miller's wife, 
 and she was, therefore, delighted with Mrs. 
 Hartman' s visit, for she knew her to be a 
 serious, God-fearing woman ; and although 
 she once thought her rather too severe in 
 her religion, yet she now rejoiced in the op- 
 portunity of conversing with her on hea- 
 venly things. They, therefore, had quite a 
 pleasant meeting; and Mrs. Hartman was 
 as much edified in imparting instruction as 
 the other woman was in receiving it. Thus 
 "he that watereth shall himself be watered." 
 Mrs. Hartman loved, on proper occasions, 
 to talk about her Savior Jesus Christ, or, as 
 she used to call him, " mein lieber Heiland," 
 or, " my dear Savior." She loved to mag- 
 nify his grace. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. Ill 
 
 She used to sing with deep emotion, with 
 her strong, elear voice, that beautiful Ger- 
 man hymn, beginning — 
 
 " ! dass ich tausend zungen hatte j" 
 
 which reads thus in English : — 
 
 "Ob, that I had a thousand voices ! 
 
 A mouth to speak with thousand tongues ! 
 Then with a heart his praise rejoices, 
 
 Would I proclaim in grateful songs, 
 To all, wherever I might be, 
 What the good Lord has done for me. 
 
 " What equal praises can I offer, 
 
 Dear Jesus, for thy mercy shown ? 
 
 What pangs, my Savior, didst thou suffer, 
 And thus for all my sins atone ! 
 
 Thy death alone my soul could free 
 
 From Satan, to be blest with thee." 
 
 This w r as one of her favorite hymns, and 
 she could sing it "with the spirit and the 
 understanding," too. 
 
 While they were seated at the dinner- 
 table, she, for the first time, felt a strange 
 and unaccountable sensation. Home rushed 
 most vividly into her mind, and she felt 
 very uneasy, and said she was afraid some- 
 thing had happened, and that she would 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 immediately go home; but the miller and 
 Lis wife talked her our of it. She re- 
 mained, therefore, until toward evening, 
 but did not seem to be as cheerful and 
 happy as she had been in the morning. 
 
 At length, about four o'clock in the after- 
 noon, she had the grist put on the horse, 
 and little Christian, with the help of the 
 miller, who took him by the leg, mounted 
 the bag. Mrs. Hartman walked before. 
 Little Christian knew how to ride, aud 
 how to guide the horse : but riding on a 
 meal-bag was a strange business to him, 
 and every now and then he would call for 
 his mother to pull the bag over to one side 
 or the other. At length they were ap- 
 proaching the end of the forest on the bor- 
 ders of their farm. Xow. the house and 
 barn were so situated that as soon as you 
 would get out of the forest they would be 
 the first objects that would strike the sight. 
 TThen Mrs, Hartman. therefore, came to- 
 ward the opening, she saw smoke ascending 
 in large, heavy, dark columns. She was at a 
 loss to know what it meant. She hastened 
 her steps, and. when she came to the edge of 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 113 
 
 the forest, looked for the house. For a 
 moment she was bewildered, and scarcely 
 thought any thing. At length she swept 
 her eyes over the whole clearing from 
 forest to forest, but no house met her view. 
 She then thought that perhaps she had taken 
 the wrong road and got into another clear- 
 ing. But no ; this could not be ; — there were 
 the well-known trees ; there was the great 
 and beautiful pine-tree that stood close to 
 the house, through whose lofty branches 
 she had so often heard the gentle winds 
 sighing ; there were the well-known fields ; 
 there was their lane, and there was the 
 orchard. She was still perplexed, when 
 little Christian called out, — 
 
 "Why, mother, where is our house?" 
 
 Just then the truth began to flash upon 
 her mind. The house and barn had caught 
 fire and burned down. She immediately 
 commenced running, and never stopped till 
 she was in the yard. But where was John, 
 and George, and Barbara, and Regina? they 
 were not there ; what had become of them ? 
 Perfectly overcome, she sat down on a log 
 near the gate to try and collect her 
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 kegixa; or, 
 
 thoughts. What a dreadful situation for 
 a woman, a wife, a mother, to be in ! — the 
 awful ruins around her, and the dreadful, 
 the agonizing suspense ! She called for 
 her husband, her children, but she heard 
 nothing save the echo of her own tremu- 
 lous voice. She then looked toward the 
 house, and there she saw blood, (it was the 
 blood of "Wasser;) then the Indian massa- 
 cres, of which she had often heard, rushed 
 into her mind, and she concluded that her 
 whole family was murdered. What was to 
 be done now ? She raised her heart to God 
 in prayer. God heard her and gave her 
 strength. When Christian came up she 
 took the ba^ from the horse and set it 
 down by the great pine-tree, but could not 
 answer the many questions that little Chris- 
 tian asked her. What to do she did not 
 know. At length she made up her mind 
 that she would take the horse and ride 
 over to their nearest neighbor's, which was 
 about three miles over a considerable hill. 
 But what was to be done with little Chris- 
 tian ? She concluded to take him on behind. 
 She started and rode as rapidly as she could 
 
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 through the woods. When she reached the 
 house she was so excited and overwhelmed 
 that for some time she could not tell them 
 what was wrong. It was now nearly dark. 
 But the man of the house and his son 
 (nearly a man grown) said they would go 
 over and see how things looked. Early in 
 the morning the few neighbors in the set- 
 tlement were all apprised of the terrible 
 calamity, and all gathered around the 
 smoking ruins of John Hartman's once 
 pleasant home. The neighbors were very 
 kind to the poor widow. The rubbish was 
 removed from the smoking ruins, and only 
 two skeletons were found. This, together 
 with the fact that fifteen Indians with three 
 girls were seen that evening by a man who 
 was coming up the mountain, led them to the 
 conclusion that Hartman and his son George 
 had been massacred by the Indians, and 
 that Barbara and Begina were carried into 
 captivity. This captivity was more terrible 
 than even death itself. 
 
 Mrs. Hartman was deeply distressed for her 
 husband and her children ; but, as she knew 
 that " our light afflictions, wdiich are but for 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 a moment, shall work out for us a far more 
 exceeding and eternal weight of glory," 
 she put her trust in God, and used to say, 
 " Though he slay me, yet will I put my trust 
 in him." Though she was a very pious wo- 
 man "before, these severe afflictions brought 
 her nearer to God her Savior. 
 
 The neighbors at once agreed that they 
 would build her another house, and actu- 
 ally met a few days after and put her up a 
 right comfortable little dwelling. The kind 
 neighbors also gave her bedclothes and fur- 
 niture, and did every thing they could to 
 make her comfortable. Some men met one 
 day and cut her winter's wood ; and thus 
 God supplied her wants. But still she was 
 not happy. The fate of her dead husband 
 and son she could have borne ; but the terri- 
 ble condition of Barbara and her beloved 
 Eegina, — this was more than human nature 
 could endure. In worldly matters she fared 
 well enough, but her wounded heart would 
 not be comforted. If she could only hear 
 something of her poor lost daughters, — yea, 
 if she could only hear that they were dead, — 
 it would be a great relief to her mind ; she 
 
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 could then calmly submit to the will of 
 God. But she could hear nothing of her chil- 
 dren. Many were the inquiries she made. 
 Often she crossed the Blue Mountains to 
 see the Rev. Nicholas Kurtz and Conrad 
 Weiser, to learn something of her children ; 
 but all in vain. But from time to time, as 
 she heard of children that were taken by 
 the English soldiers from the Indians, she 
 would always go and see if her lost children 
 were among them. 
 
 She had loved all her children with a 
 warmth of affection which only a loving 
 mother's heart can know; but somehow or 
 other Regina had so wound herself around 
 the heart of her mother that she could never 
 give her up. She thought of her all the 
 day long ; and at night, when she lay upon 
 her bed, she would dream of her lost Re- 
 gina. Once she dreamed that Regina had 
 returned safe and sound. She ran to em- 
 brace her, and uttered such a terrible scream 
 of rejoicing that it awoke her, and to her 
 great sorrow she found it was only a dream ! 
 Sometimes, too, in her imagination, she 
 would hear the clear and joyful voice of 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 Regina, as it used to ring out around the 
 beloved home. 
 
 Nine long and tedious years rolled tardily 
 along, and yet no tidings of her lost Regina. 
 Time could not heal the wounds afflictions 
 like these had made upon her heart. But 
 as every thing in this world has an end, so, 
 too, the long dream of agony had its termi- 
 nation, and hope and happiness once more 
 dawned upon the withered heart of the lone 
 widow in her forest home. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 T H*E CAPTIVITY. 
 
 IN WHICH WE HAVE AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT BEFELL THE 
 POOR GIRLS BARBARA AND REGINA, AND THE HARD- 
 SHIPS THE CAPTIVES ENDURED AMONG THE INDIANS. 
 
 "We last saw Barbara and Regina stand- 
 ing near the fence talking with little Susan, 
 while their fathers' house and barn were 
 burning and the Indians were dancing in 
 hellish glee around. When the fire had 
 fairly laid hold of part of the house and barn, 
 and the flames were rising higher and higher, 
 they gathered up their plunder and drove 
 their captives before them, one of them 
 taking the lead. The leader's name was 
 Pottowasnos, which means, in the Indian 
 language, "the Boat-pusher." This was a 
 great brawny fellow; he took long steps, 
 and walked so fast that the children, as 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 well as some of the Indians who had short 
 legs, had often to run in order to keep up 
 with him. Each one, except the chief, car- 
 ried a bundle of plunder. Barbara and 
 Regina had also to carry a load. They had 
 nothing on their heads or feet. The little 
 girl Susan, too, was bareheaded and bare- 
 footed. After they had traveled about an 
 hour and a half, the little girl could run no 
 more, having cried herself almost out of 
 breath, and her little feet being wounded 
 with the sharp stones over which they had 
 to pass. At length she fell down ; the In- 
 dian that was next to her behind came up 
 to her and gave her a kick or two and 
 raised her to her feet, but she soon fell to the 
 ground again. "When she fell the second 
 time one of the Indians gave a terrible yell, 
 and they all stopped. This was the first 
 halt that had been made. As soon as they 
 halted they all came and stood around the 
 poor child. One of the Indians then took 
 her by the arms and placed her on her feet, 
 but she fell again. He then raised her up 
 again, and drew his tomahawk from his belt 
 behind, and was just about to bury it in her 
 
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 head, when the chief cried out in a terrible 
 voice, no doubt commanding him to desist. 
 Other arrangements were then made. Bar- 
 bara had to take Regina's load in addition 
 to her own ; and Regina, though but a 
 child herself, had to carry Susan. These 
 arrangements having been made, they 
 started oiF again. And it was well for poor 
 Regina that it was near night, for if she 
 w r ould have had to carry the child very for 
 she would certainly have sunk under her 
 burden. But when it became dark, Regina 
 put the little girl down on the ground, and 
 took her by the hand and helped her along; 
 in this way they got along very well. They 
 traveled on till near midnight; and, at last, 
 they came to a halt on the banks of a little 
 stream. 
 
 They built a fire and cooked their sup- 
 per, which consisted of new corn, which 
 they had brought along. They had the 
 corn in a bag; it was a kind of hominy, or 
 dried corn. This, together with some of 
 the bread they had brought from Hart- 
 man's, constituted their supper. They ate 
 several kettles-full; and when they were 
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 regixa; or, 
 
 done eating they motioned to the girls to 
 go to the kettle and eat. The children also 
 picked up some pieces of bread. They 
 were very hungry, especially little Susan, 
 who had not eaten any thing since morning 
 but a few apples she had picked up while 
 passing through Hartman's orchard. 
 
 When the Indians were done eating they 
 sat around the fire and had a long talk and 
 smoked their pipes, no doubt recounting 
 the horrid achievements of the day. They 
 also had some liquor in flasks, which they 
 called "lum," — meaning, no doubt, rum, — 
 of which they partook very freely, and then 
 slunk away to places of repose. The girls 
 were also motioned to lie down. The Hart- 
 man girls lay down, with little Susan, un- 
 der a thick laurel-bush ; and, as one bundle 
 they had consisted of several blankets and a 
 coverlet, they opened them out and covered 
 themselves with them. Thus they had a 
 pleasant sleep. But this good fortune did 
 not always follow them. Barbara and little 
 Susan soon fell asleep, but Regina could 
 not close an eye. She thought of her mur- 
 dered father and brother, and of her dear 
 
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 absent mother. She cried enough to break 
 her poor heart, and at last fell asleep, but 
 only to be disturbed by the awful visions 
 of the horrid and bloody scene she had wit- 
 nessed during that eventful day. 
 
 In the morning the Indians rose pretty 
 early, and some of them took their guns 
 and went out to shoot game. They soon 
 returned with a large wild turkey and a 
 number of squirrels. These were cooked 
 for breakfast ; soon after which they started 
 again. They kept in the forest nearly all 
 day; and hard indeed was the fate of the 
 poor girls. Their feet became very sore, so 
 that they could scarcely walk, yet they had 
 to go or be tomahawked. Sometimes Re- 
 gina carried little Susan, and sometimes she 
 led her by the hand. 
 
 At noon the Indians came to a halt on a 
 large stream of water, which was no doubt 
 the North Branch of the Susquehanna 
 Eiver. Thence they traveled day after 
 day up the river, through wet and through 
 dry, for it rained for several days. 
 
 When they had been on this dreary jour- 
 ney some five or six days, poor Barbara took 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 sick. Her feet were wounded and swollen 
 and inflamed, so that she was thrown into a 
 severe fever. Toward evening she told Re- 
 gina that she could go no farther, and that she 
 would rather die than to suffer any longer 
 as she had done. But Regina still encour- 
 aged her, and even carried both the bun- 
 dles. The Indians halted somewhat earlier 
 that day, or Barbara would certainly have 
 given out. As soon as they stopped she 
 lay down on the cold, damp earth, which in- 
 creased her fever. She could eat nothing 
 that evening, and at night she could not 
 sleep. She became deranged, and frequent- 
 ly alarmed poor Regina, who had never seen 
 any person in the delirium of a high fever. 
 About midnight she called for water, and 
 poor Regina did not know how to get it; 
 she was afraid if she would rise to go for 
 water the Indians would shoot her. But 
 Barbara still called for water. At length 
 Regina rose up and went toward the fire, 
 where there was a tin cup, which she took 
 to the Indian who was on guard, and 
 pointed to her sister and then toward the 
 river. He nodded. So she went and got 
 
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 her a drink. After she had drank, she be- 
 came more quiet; but in the morning her 
 feet and legs were so swollen, and she was 
 so weak, that she could not stand. Poor 
 Regina tried to help her up, but she would 
 sink down again. While Regina was try- 
 ing to help, her up, some of the brutal 
 savages noticed the scene and laughed at 
 the poor sick girl. Oh, what cruelty ! what 
 inhuman monsters they were! One of 
 them even went up to the poor sick girl, 
 and raised her up several times only to see 
 her fall. Barbara was so weak, and so sick 
 and full of pain, that she told Regina she 
 would rather die than live. If the Indians 
 killed her she would go to her dear Savior. 
 Poor Regina wept bitterly at the thought of 
 losing her sister. 
 
 When breakfast was over, arrangements 
 were made for starting. Barbara could not 
 walk. The Indians tiied to make her 
 walk ; but it was impossible. They threat- 
 ened her with the tomahawk, but all had 
 no effect ; it was out of her power to walk. 
 What was now to be done? The Indians 
 all gathered round her and examined her 
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 REG IX A; OR, 
 
 swollen and inflamed foot ; but their hearts 
 were harder than the nether-millstone, — no 
 compassion was awakened in those hard- 
 ened savages. Barbara was resigned to her 
 fate, looking back upon the murder of her 
 father and brother and looking forward to 
 her Savior in heaven ; and. remembering 
 the words of her Savior, " Fear not them 
 that can kill the body,'' she looked almost 
 with joy upon the end of her suffering. 
 She was now rational ; her heart was lifted 
 up to God in prayer. The Indians held a 
 short consultation ; then one of them walked 
 right up to Barbara and sank his tomahawk 
 into her head — and she hardly moved. She 
 was then scalped. Regina was so over- 
 come that Bhe shrieked out and threw her- 
 self upon the yet writhing body of her sister ; 
 but the Indian fiends tore her away and 
 soon after moved off. Eegina's feet were 
 also very sore, and so were little Susan's. 
 Before the Indians started they made Re- 
 gina tear broad pieces from the woolen pet- 
 ticoat of her murdered sister and tie them 
 around her feet ami the feet of Susan. 
 This turned out to be of great advantage to 
 
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 the poor girls. The Indians did not want 
 to lose these children ; they expected to re- 
 ceive a ransom for them. It was the love 
 of gain, and nothing else, that induced them 
 to take any care of them. 
 
 It may be well enough here to state that 
 on this excursion the Indians had only 
 murdered two families, — viz. : the Hartman 
 family, as we have seen, and a family by 
 the name of Smith, who lived about eight 
 miles from Hartman' s. The man had lost 
 his wife, and little Susan was his only child. 
 The Indians killed him before daylight, on 
 the same day that they came to Hartman's, 
 and carried off the little girl. This is the 
 way Susan came into their cruel hands. 
 
 Sad indeed were the thoughts of Kegina 
 now. Her father, her brother, and her sis- 
 ter, were all gone, and her poor mother she 
 never expected to see again ; and what 
 would become of her? 
 
 But the journey still continued, — though 
 the Indians did not seem to be in much of 
 a hurry. Sometimes they only traveled 
 eight or ten miles a -day; and when it 
 rained they made sheds and kept them- 
 
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 regixa; or, 
 
 selves dry. But it was getting very cold, 
 and on the ninth or tenth day it snowed. 
 The poor children almost perished. Regina 
 found an old apron of her mother's ; this 
 she tore in two pieces, and put one piece 
 around her head and the other around the 
 head of Susan. This kept their heads 
 warm. The pieces of cloth they had round 
 their feet were turned and shifted from 
 time to time as they became torn. They 
 had plenty to eat, such as it was, — mostly 
 parched corn and fresh meat, without salt, 
 though roasted or cooked in the camp- 
 kettle. 
 
 The little girls were now no longer 
 watched so closely, for the Indians knew 
 well enough that they would not attempt to 
 run away. Sometimes the Indians would 
 go out from the camp and bring in a bear 
 and two or three deer in one day. The 
 bear-skin belonged to the one who shot it ; 
 but the deer-skins, like all the meat, were 
 common property. The Indians made moc- 
 casins of them ; and one of them made 
 moccasins also for our poor little girls. 
 This was delightful; they could now get 
 
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 along so much better, and their feet were 
 kept warm. This was like a green spot in 
 the dreary desert of their captivity. 
 
 Poor little Susan could not understand 
 why she should be taken so far from home, 
 and used to ask Regina, in German, if they 
 would soon get home. Alas ! poor child, 
 she had no home ! Regina, though but a 
 child herself, acted the part of a mother 
 to her. She did every thing she could to 
 make her comfortable; she would always 
 get her a drink, and at night she would 
 cover her up warmly with the blankets. 
 And when the poor little thing would cry, 
 as she often did, Regina would try to com- 
 fort her. She became much attached to 
 Regina. They were indeed little compan- 
 ions in affliction. 
 
 Thus they traveled on some eighteen or 
 twenty days before they got to the end of 
 their dreary journey. But, alas ! when 
 they got to the end of their long journey 
 their condition was no better than it had 
 been on the way. It is true, they had not 
 to walk and carry bundles, but they had 
 many other hardships to endure. They 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 were now somewhere in New York, and 
 fell to the lot of a young Indian who had 
 been on this excursion, and who perhaps 
 had been more brutal than the rest. 
 
 Now just imagine the condition of these 
 poor unfortunate children, far from home 
 and friends, in a wild country, and among 
 cruel savages. How thankful you ought to 
 be, my dear young readers, that your lot is 
 cast in a different age, and that you have 
 kind friends to provide for you and take 
 care of you. 
 
 Still, the poor girls were glad their jour- 
 ney was ended. The young Indian, when 
 they came to their grand halt, — or the place 
 from which they had started, — took the 
 children (though not the blankets) to his 
 little hut, called a wigwam. It was a very 
 small log hut, with a bad roof, and open on 
 all sides; still, it was better than none. 
 Here they found an ugly old Indian wo- 
 man, who was the mother of the young In- 
 dian. This was now their home. Here 
 they spent many a sad and dreary year. 
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 REGINA AND SUSAN IN CAPTIVITY. 
 
 THEIR HARDSHIPS — THE CRUELTY OP THE OLD SQUAW — ■ 
 HOW THEY SPENT THEIR TIME — THEIR AFFECTION FOR 
 EACH OTHER. 
 
 We have followed Regina to the place 
 of her captivity ; let us now look into her 
 abode, and her toils, and her sufferings. 
 
 The name of the old squaw, in whose 
 charge she was placed, was Shelackla, 
 which means " a dark or rainy cloud." 
 She was as drunken, cross, unfeeling, and 
 ill-natured an old hag as is rarely seen. 
 She was never sober when she could get 
 any thing to get drunk with, and, when 
 drunk, she was a perfect fury. Her son, 
 although himself a very bad man, could 
 not remain with his mother. Hence he 
 often left her for weeks together, to pro- 
 vide for herself or starve. She was old 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 and decrepit, and mnch crippled with the 
 rheumatism, so that most of the time she 
 could not walk. This fact saved poor Re- 
 gina many a severe blow. Regina had to 
 carry all the. wood to the wigwam that was 
 needed; and in the summer she had to 
 gather all kinds of fruits and roots, and in 
 the winter she had to catch all kinds of 
 wild animals for meat, to sustain the old 
 squaw. Every time she came home with- 
 out the quantity and quality the old hag 
 wanted, she would beat her most unmer- 
 cifully. She seemed to take pleasure in 
 hearing Regina and little Susan scream- 
 ing. Sometimes she was very kind, and 
 would give the girls a piece of dried 
 venison, or a handful of parched corn, or a 
 few dried whortleberries. The children's 
 clothes w T ere soon torn into tatters. Of 
 course, when they were worn out they 
 got no others, but had to dress just as the 
 Indian children dressed. They had a kind 
 of sack, made of deer-skin, just largo 
 enough to go over the body, and extend- 
 ing from the hip-bones almost clown to the 
 knees. This curious bag-shaped garment 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 133 
 
 was either kept up by being tied around 
 the waist with a bark string, or supported 
 by suspenders over the shoulders, also made 
 of bark. The arms, legs, and all the upper 
 part of the body, were naked and exposed 
 to the cold ; still, in very cold weather, 
 Eegina had also a small, dirty, thin blan- 
 ket, and moccasins and leggings. But it 
 was a long time before the poor girl could 
 become fully reconciled to such an out- 
 landish dress. But what was to be done ? 
 she could not help herself. 
 
 When she was sent out into the woods 
 for any thing, she often kneeled down 
 under a tree and recited all the prayers and 
 hymns she had learned from her dear mo- 
 ther. She often took little Susan along 
 and taught her to sing and pray. But she 
 had no books, and no person to speak Ger- 
 man to but little Susan ; and the old squaw 
 would not let them speak German, so they 
 had to learn the Indian language; and they 
 soon learned to name the few things around 
 them, and in a short time they could under- 
 stand the old hag, who spoke only the In- 
 dian language, so that in the course of a 
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 regina; or, 
 
 few years Regina forgot to speak the Ger- 
 man; but, in consequence of the prayers 
 and hymns she had learned in her father's 
 house, she could always understand the 
 German language, though she could not 
 speak it. 
 
 There were other Indian families living 
 in the neighborhood, and sometimes Re- 
 gina was sent to a neighbor's house, which 
 the Indians call " wigwam." Eegina became 
 acquainted with a number of little Indian 
 children, and some of the Indian girls were 
 very clever and kind to her. They formed 
 quite an affection for her, and sometimes 
 visited her at her own house, and taught 
 her to weave bark and grass baskets, and 
 work beads on purses and moccasins, — at 
 which Regina became very expert, and did 
 a great deal in the way of supporting her 
 cruel mistress. She learned the Indian art 
 of coloring from the old squaw with whom 
 she lived. This old squaw had once been 
 famous for her expertness in making all 
 kinds of Indian things, and her cabin was 
 hung all around with curious ornaments 
 worked on skins and bark and different 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 135 
 
 kinds of cloth. In her younger days she 
 had a number of wampum belts, that were 
 very beautiful ; and these she would some- 
 times, when in a very good humor, show 
 the girls, and tell them when she made 
 them — so many moons ago, and she was so 
 many moons making them. 
 
 Sometimes, when the little Indian girls 
 would come to see Regina, if the old squaw 
 was in a bad humor, she would drive them 
 away with great fury; at other times she 
 seemed glad to see them. 
 
 The Indian children had their sports, 
 and plays, and pastimes ; but, as they were 
 generally of a rude nature, Regina never 
 had much pleasure in them. 
 
 As Regina was of a very fair complexion, 
 and had large blue eyes and red cheeks, the 
 Indian children gave her the name Saw^que- 
 hanna, which means, in their language, " a 
 white lily." Little Susan, who was of a 
 dark complexion and shorter than Indian 
 children of her age generally were, they 
 called Knoloska, w T hich means " a short- 
 legged bear." By these names only were 
 they known among the Indian children. 
 
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 REG IN A; OR, 
 
 During the summer the poor captives 
 fared pretty well ; but in the winter they 
 had hard times. Regina had to carry all 
 the wood to the wigwam to keep the old 
 squaw warm ; and when they were out of 
 provision she had to get it as best she 
 could, and wo be to her if she came home 
 without something to eat ! She was sure to 
 get a beating from her cruel mistress. 
 
 Time passed on — four, five, six years, — 
 and no change ; — the same dull round and 
 routine of Indian life. Regina was now 
 growing up toward womanhood ; but, alas ! 
 her fair, white complexion was turned to a 
 tawny brown, and her once beautiful and 
 glossy hair was in a bad plight. Her once 
 buoyant and cheerful spirit was crushed by 
 the brutal treatment she received and the 
 many hardships she had to endure. The 
 home of her childhood she could never for- 
 get. How could she forget her dear mo- 
 ther? She often thought of her once happy 
 home, and wept when she thought of her 
 mother, and wondered whether she would 
 ever again behold her face ? She was not 
 happy in her Indian home; she could not 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 137 
 
 give up the idea of once more being per- 
 mitted to see her white friends. She still 
 continued to say her prayers, and often — 
 very often — did she ask God to restore her 
 to her dear mother. She also recollected a 
 portion of her catechism, and taught little 
 Susan all she knew of God and of his Son 
 Jesus Christ. Her ideas of the Savior were 
 not very clear, for she had forgotten much 
 that she had once known ; but, still, she 
 knew that he had come into the world and 
 died to save poor sinners. She knew, too, 
 that lie was a divine Being, and that she 
 must pray to him ; and as she recollected 
 the creed distinctly, and often repeated it 
 as one of her prayers, that fact kept the true 
 idea of the Savior and his mission into our 
 world, his death and ascension, fresh in her 
 mind. And then it seemed so strange to 
 her that she should never hear any singing 
 and praying, as she had been accustomed to 
 in her father's house. 
 
 We stated, a while ago, that the little In- 
 dian children sometimes came to Regina 
 and Susan, and tried to make them happy, 
 by introducing their rude and shocking 
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138 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 plays. These plays consisted in running 
 and jumping, and scalping and torturing, 
 and making the children run the gauntlet. 
 This was a play Regina did not much rel- 
 ish. The plays of children are said, in all 
 countries, to be derived mainly from the 
 pursuits and labors of their parents. And 
 it is no doubt true. The little son of the 
 farmer will be apt to play horse ; while the 
 son of the mechanic will use a tool. Thus, 
 in time of war, children will play soldier. 
 So the little Indians would have their fun 
 in the scalping-frolic and making each 
 other run the gauntlet. Now, I suppose, 
 many of my little readers do not know 
 what this means ; I will, therefore, explain 
 it. When the Indians took a prisoner, 
 they brought him before the great council, 
 where his fate was determined upon. He 
 was either to be shot with arrows, to be 
 burnt alive, or to run the gauntlet. The 
 running of the gauntlet was this: — All 
 the Indians — men, women, and children — 
 placed themselves in two long rows; each 
 one had a stick or club in his or her hand ; 
 the prisoner was to run through the open 
 
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 ing, and each was to strike him as he ran. 
 Sometimes they would kill him ; for if he 
 was so unfortunate as to he knocked down 
 — which often happened — he would never 
 be permitted to rise, for they would all fall 
 upon him with their clubs and beat him to 
 death. This was one of the plays of those 
 rude children of the forest. Little Susan 
 was more interested in these rough plays 
 than Regina. 
 
 We shall now leave these children a 
 while, in their wild Indian home, — God 
 will take care of them, — and return to the 
 mother of Regina, and see how she is get- 
 ting along, and see, too, whether she has 
 forgotten her lost children. 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 CHAPTER YIII. 
 
 THE HOME OF A DESOLATE WIDOW — HER 
 THOUGHTS — HER HOPES. 
 
 We stated that the neighbors in the 
 "Valley of Blood" — as we shall call the 
 place where John Hart man and George 
 were butchered by the Indians — were very 
 kind, and built her a house, and did every 
 thing they could to make her comfortable. 
 But, alas ! she was sad and sorrowful. Al- 
 though she had one source of comfort that 
 many have not, — that was true religion, — 
 yet there was a settled gloom upon her 
 mind, occasioned by the absence of her 
 daughter Regina; — for the body of her 
 murdered daughter Barbara was found. 
 And when she heard of it she prevailed on 
 a party of her neighbors to go with her; 
 and they found that some hunters, who 
 had first seen it, dug a hole and put the 
 
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 body of Barbara into it. She found the 
 grave on the banks of the stream, where it 
 is still pointed out as the " German Cap- 
 tive's Grave," under a large oak, through 
 whose dense foliage the winds still sigh her 
 requiem. She wanted to take the body 
 home with her; but her neighbors dis- 
 suaded her from it. So she agreed to leave 
 it rest there in peace until the morning of 
 the resurrection. The fate of this poor girl 
 was something like that of Miss McCrea, 
 of which you may have read in our Revolu- 
 tionary history. Mrs. Hartman, however, 
 had the grave opened, and there she saw 
 her dear Barbara with her cleft head ! Oh, 
 how her heart was moved ! She was so over- 
 powered that she nearly fainted, and it was 
 some time before she recovered ; and, when 
 she did recover from her swoon, her daugh- 
 ter was again buried from her sight, and in 
 sadness and sorrow she returned to her 
 dreary home. She often was heard to say, 
 "If I only was certain of the fate of Regina 
 I could be happy once more; but," she de- 
 clared, " I never can have peace of mind 
 until I know what has become of her." 
 
142 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 She often wanted to employ men to go 
 among the Indians in ]STew York and 
 Canada and try to find out what had be- 
 come of her. Her friends and neighbors 
 would comfort her — some one way, some 
 another. 
 
 One woman told her, one day, that 
 she had no doubt Eegina would be re- 
 turned to her yet. "God grant it!" ex- 
 claimed the mother. " If I could but once 
 see my long-lost daughter I would say, like 
 good old Simeon, ' low, Lord, let thy ser- 
 vant depart in peace.' " There seemed to 
 be but one thought in her mind, and that 
 was her poor lost child. She never forgot 
 her in her prayers. She spoke of her when 
 awake and dreamed of her by night; and 
 even the very recollection of her dreams, in 
 which she had seen her beloved daughter, 
 was delicious. 
 
 She did every thing that could be done to 
 hear of her daughter. She often performed 
 long journeys, on foot, to places where she 
 had heard of children that had been re- 
 stored. She sometimes went to Philadel- 
 phia, to see the governor and the army 
 
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 officers about her daughter; but no light 
 was shed upon her child. 
 
 One day, a kind friend made it his busi- 
 ness to cross the Blue Mountains, to inform 
 her that he had heard of a girl who was 
 taken from the Indians ; and, from the 
 description, he had no doubt it was her 
 daughter. "Yes, yes; it is my daughter!" 
 Next day she started off, bright and early, 
 and walked that day as far as Reading. Next 
 morning she started for the place called 
 Maxitany, to the house of old Colonel Le- 
 van, where the girl was ; but, alas ! when 
 she came there she was disappointed, — it 
 was not her daughter ! So she had again to 
 return without her. 
 
 She was very kindly treated by Colonel 
 Levan and his family, and formed a strong 
 attachment to his daughter Esther, who was 
 then about sixteen years old, and reminded 
 her of her own dear Regina. This same 
 Esther Levan, a few years afterward, was 
 married to Benjamin, youngest son of Con- 
 rad TVeiser, and became a neighbor to Mrs. 
 Hartrnan. She lived in Womelsdorf, Berks 
 county, where she died, in 1820, at the ad- 
 
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 regina; oh, 
 
 vanced age of eighty-six years. From her 
 many of the facts in this book were gath- 
 ered by her grandson, the author. 
 
 Little Christian was now the only com- 
 fort of his bereaved mother. He was now 
 a stout lad of some fourteen years, and was 
 a great help to his mother. She taught 
 him to read, and taught him religion. He 
 was a fine boy ; — did every thing he could 
 to please his poor mother. In worldly 
 things they got on right well ; the widow 
 and her son had enough to eat and wear. 
 But Regina "was not," and that thought 
 continually marred her peace. She often 
 sang her favorite hymn : — 
 
 " Alone, and yet not all alone, am I 
 In this lone wilderness." 
 
 She often thought that the Lord had 
 laid heavy afflictions upon her. Still, she 
 thought it was all ricdit. "I deserve it all 
 for my sins. But God will, at last, deliver 
 me from all these afflictions ; and, perhaps, 
 I shall then see that such a severe discipline 
 was the only thing that could bring me to 
 heaven." If she could have understood 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 145 
 
 the English language, she might have given 
 full utterance to her burdened heart in the 
 beautiful hymn written about that time by 
 Charles Wesley, whose muse was fired by 
 the flames that burn on the altar above :— 
 
 "And let this feeble body fail 
 
 And let it faint or die,- 
 My soul shall quit this mournful vale 
 
 And soar to worlds on high — 
 Shall join the disembodied saints, 
 
 And find its long-sought rest, 
 That only bliss, for which it pants, 
 
 In the Redeemer's breast! 
 
 fe In hope of that immortal crown, 
 
 I now the crown sustain, 
 And gladly wander up and down, 
 
 And smile at toil and pain : 
 I suffer on my threescore years 
 
 Till my Beliv'rer come, 
 And wipe away his servant's tears 
 
 And take his exile home. 
 
 ***** 
 
 ** Oh, what are all my suff'rings here, 
 If, Lord, thou count me meet 
 With that enraptur'cl host t'appear, 
 
 And worship at his feet ! 
 Give joy or grief, give ease or pain, 
 
 Take life or friends away, 
 But let me find them all again 
 In that eternal day 1" 
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 regina; or, 
 
 These were the sentiments of Mrs. Hart- 
 man. She longed for that better world, 
 where she might see her blessed Savior and 
 her dear lost ones. But still she believed 
 her Regina was not dead, and that she 
 would jet see her before she died ; but how 
 this would come to pass she did not know. 
 She used to say, "God, in his own good 
 time, would bring it to pass." Spring 
 came, with its joys and its revived hopes; 
 summer, with its hot suns, came; the 
 golden autumn again returned, and another 
 cold winter was at the widow's door; but no 
 tidings of Regina came. "When the lone 
 widow sat by her cheerful fire, and heard 
 the rude blasts of the pitiless storm, she 
 thought of her absent daughter, and thought 
 that perhaps she was exposed to its merci- 
 less peltings. Oh, then her heart would 
 sink within her and the tears would start 
 from her eyes ! She could hardly wait till 
 the return of spring, she was so intent upon 
 carrying out the plans she had formed to 
 find her daughter. Sometimes she re- 
 proached herself for not having been more 
 active in hunting her up; — perhaps if she 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 147 
 
 had gone to Fort Pitt she might have 
 heard something of her. She made up her 
 mind, if spared till spring, she would leave 
 no stone unturned until she would find out 
 what had become of her daughter. 
 
 Early in the spring of 1763, she made up 
 her mind to go to Pittsburg, or, as it was 
 then called, Fort Pitt. She made herself 
 acquainted with the road, and was in- 
 formed by Conrad Weiser that, if she 
 would go to a little village in the great val- 
 ley called Falling Spring, or Chambers's Mill, 
 (now Chambersburg,) she could there get an 
 opportunity to go to Fort Pitt with the pack- 
 ers; — that is, men who carried iron, salt, 
 powder, and other things, out to Fort Pitt on 
 pack-horses. She took a horse, and — with 
 her son Christian, who took a good rifle — 
 she started for the Falling Springs. She 
 reached that point — crossing the river at 
 Harris's Ferry, passing through Carlisle — in 
 four days. She remained with Mr. Benja- 
 min Chambers, whose house was always 
 open for strangers, until she had an oppor- 
 tunity of joining a company of packers, 
 which was offered in a few days. She laid 
 
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 regixa; ob ? 
 
 in a stock of bread, and flour, and salt ; for 
 their meat they depended upon the trusty 
 rifle. The j passed through Raystown, now 
 Bedford, Pennsylvania, and by Fort Le- 
 gouier, and, without any thing more than a 
 very tiresome journey, they reached Fort 
 Pitt — then a garrison of the English go- 
 vernment, and a few trading-houses and 
 two small taverns — in thirteen days. 
 
 In one of the taverns there was an ost- 
 ler, who was a German, and could speak 
 some English. This man was of great ser- 
 vice to Mrs. Hartman. He acted as her in- 
 terpreter with the landlord, and with Colo- 
 nel Boquet, the commander of the fort, and 
 other officers. 
 
 Her story soon became known, and her 
 heroic conduct was much admired and ap- 
 plauded by the whole garrison. It showed 
 a strength of love and determination of pur- 
 pose not often exhibited. All felt an in- 
 terest in her godlike mission : but no clue 
 could be given to her daughter. Still, her 
 visit was not in vain, for it had a powerful 
 effect in arousing the determination of the 
 officers and soldiers in compelling the In- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 149 
 
 clians to give up the many innocent chil- 
 dren they had carried off. The brave and 
 heroic conduct of this devoted mother, who 
 had crossed the Alleghany Mountains at 
 the risk of being made a captive herself by 
 the savages that were still prowling about 
 in the mountains and valleys of Western 
 Pennsylvania, kindled anew the desire to 
 rid the world of such monsters. All the 
 officers promised to keep a look-out for Re- 
 gina; — the very name interested them — a 
 queen's. " We will certainly inquire the 
 name of every captive girl we take from 
 the Indians, and write you a letter and 
 send it to Colonel Conrad Weiser, as soon 
 as we find your daughter." This was in- 
 deed highly encouraging. Now she had 
 some hope. She was not sorry she had 
 made this long journey. She could now 
 rest contented even if she would never 
 find her daughter. She had now done her 
 duty. 
 
 She waited until a company of packers 
 again returned, and then retraced her steps. 
 Sometimes she would walk a few miles; 
 and then her son — of course they had to 
 
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150 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 camp out; they had a thick, heavy, hempen 
 cloth and blankets along — would cut four 
 sticks, with prongs at the end ; these they 
 would stick in the ground, and fasten the 
 cloth to them, and let large flaps of eloth 
 hang down at the four sides. Into this 
 little room they would creep, and many a 
 sweet and refreshing Bleep they had. The 
 widow always said her prayers, even when 
 she camped out in the wilderness. Under 
 the protection of the Almighty she felt her- 
 self safe. 
 
 On one occasion, while they were en- 
 camped near a place called the " Shades of 
 Death,"' near the place where the road 
 crossed the Juniata river, they were 
 alarmed hy a party of Indians; but the 
 sentinels saw them and gave the signal. 
 In a moment the packers were ready for 
 action, and the cowardly savages skulked 
 off, to attack some lone cabin, or perhaps 
 some unprotected women and children. 
 Thus Providence brought this lonely widow 
 in safety and peace to her home again. 
 
 She now contented herself, and made up 
 her mind patiently to await the further de- 
 
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 vclopments of Providence in reference to 
 her lost daughter. And, as nothing re- 
 markahle occurred until the mysterious 
 plans of God's government were matured 
 fully in reference to Regina, we will leave 
 Mrs. Hartman in her quiet home until her 
 presence is required in another quarter. 
 
152 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 EEGIXA — HER PEE SENTIMENTS OE DELIVER- 
 ANCE. 
 
 THE INDIAN WAS — THE TRIUMPHS OF THE ENGLISH ARMS 
 
 THE BATTLES — THE CAPITULATION — A LARGE NUMBER 
 
 OF WHITE CAPTIVE CHILDREN DELIVERED TO COLONEL 
 BOQUET — REGINA AMONG THE NUMBER. 
 
 Xine long and dreary years had rolled 
 by, and poor Eegina was still a captive 
 among the rode and savage Indians, and, 
 so far as she could see. she must remain 
 during her lifetime. She was now nine- 
 teen years old. — a tine-looking woman : hut, 
 as her complexion was much tanned by the 
 sun and weather, and her once fair and 
 glossy hair had become darker and much 
 coarser, and as her bright, large, blue eyes 
 did uot become a dark skin, she was not 
 near as pretty as she had been nine years 
 before. The Indians did not consider her 
 beau:::Vd, because she had not black hair 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 153 
 
 and eyes. She had now forgotten how to 
 speak any other than the Maquan Indian lan- 
 guage. The tribe among whom she w T as 
 were called Maquasas. Still, she remem- 
 bered her mother. She had forgotten how 
 she looked, but remembered her kindness 
 and the sound instruction she had received 
 from her. She often tried to recall to her 
 mind the image of her mother, but she 
 could not; it had been obliterated from the 
 tablets of memory. She often asked her- 
 self the question, "If I were to meet my 
 mother, would I know her? Oh, yes; 
 though I have forgotten how she looked, — 
 and perhaps she has changed as much as 
 I, — yet, if I would hear that sweet, melo- 
 dious voice that once thrilled my youthful 
 heart, I would surely know her." 
 
 When we say that Regina had forgotten 
 the German language, we only mean that 
 she could not have carried on a conversa- 
 tion in it; but she could have understood 
 it, and still could repeat her hymns and 
 prayers in that language. 
 
 Little Susan was now twelve years old ; 
 and, as she had black hair and black eyes, 
 
154 
 
 regina: or,. 
 
 and had become very dark in her com- 
 plexion, she looked very much like an In- 
 dian girl. She was much attached to Re- 
 gina. and Susan was the only person Regina 
 could love. 
 
 Xo wonder they loved each other. For 
 nine long and dreary years they had been 
 companions in sorrow and affliction. Their 
 hearts had become knit together, so that the 
 very thoughts of a separation were painful. 
 The only few moments of joy they had ex- 
 perienced in their long captivity were from 
 each other. The ranee of their thoughts 
 was very limited. The little knowledge of 
 God which Regina had acquired she freely 
 taught Susan. But her mind did not ex- 
 pand. She had grown up to be a woman; 
 but the powers of her intellect did not keep 
 pace with those of her body. The Indians 
 are. as is well known, very ignorant : that 
 is. they Lave no abstract ideas — no know- 
 ledge of literature nor of history. Thev 
 have no books — no written language ; hence, 
 no records of the past. And even if one 
 generation were to learn any thing of im- 
 portance, or make any valuable discoveries, 
 
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 the succeeding generations could not profit 
 by them. Hence, most of the Indians do 
 not know their own age. Yet they have 
 good minds; and, as their attention is not 
 taken up with books, they are very much 
 thrown upon their own resources. They 
 are generally very close observers of na- 
 ture. It is wonderful how sharp their 
 senses and all their powers of observation 
 become. They watch the changes of the 
 seasons with great care and minuteness. 
 They never plant their corn, nor any thing 
 that is liable to be injured by frosts, until 
 the new white-oak-leaves are as large as a 
 squirrel's foot. They never start on a jour- 
 ney in cloudy weather until they can see as 
 much blue sky in the east as will make a 
 shot-pouch. When the ground-hog seeks 
 his winter-quarters the Indian does not ven- 
 ture from home; nor will he leave home 
 when the maple-leaves turn up their white 
 sides. The}- never lose themselves in the 
 forest; it is said they always know every 
 point of the compass, even in cloudy 
 weather or in the darkest night. The fol- 
 lowing anecdote, which I have seen some- 
 
156 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 where, may serve to give you a fair spoci 
 men of the close observing powers of the 
 Indian : — 
 
 One day, an' old Indian was out hunting, 
 and shot a fine, large, fat buck. He was 
 too large to carry home, so he took the 
 skin oil) and, Indian fashion, bent down a 
 sapling, and, having fastened his buck to 
 the sapling, let it go. The buck was thus 
 raised about seven feet from the ground. 
 ]SText day, he came with one of his sons to 
 carry the buck home; but great was his 
 disappointment when he found his buck 
 was gone. The old man examined mat- 
 ters very closely, and finally made up his 
 mind who it was that had stolen his buck. 
 He told his son, simply, that a white man 
 had done it. So he went in pursuit of the 
 thief. After some time he met a white 
 hunter. He went up to him and addressed 
 him thus : — 
 
 " Did you see a little, old, white man 
 with a short gun, and a little dog with a 
 short tail?" 
 
 "Yes," says the hunter, "I did; and 
 what of it?" 
 
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 "Why," says the Indian, "he stole my 
 buck." 
 
 " Well," says the hunter, "that may be, 
 for he had the hind-quarters of a very fat 
 buck on his shoulders. But, now, old fel- 
 low, I want you to tell me how you found 
 out all these things about the man who 
 stole your buck?" 
 
 "Why," says the Indian, "when I came 
 to the tree I saw 7 that my buck was stolen. 
 I knew the wolves could not get at him. I 
 knew an Indian did not take him, because 
 the Indian is tall and could have reached 
 him from the ground; whereas the man who 
 took it w r as so small that he had to make a 
 little stone pile to reach up. I knew he 
 had a short gun, because I saw where his 
 gun stood against a tree; I could see the 
 print of the breech in the sand on the 
 ground and the mark which the muz- 
 zle left on the bark. I knew he had a 
 little dog, for I saw the prints of his feet ; 
 and I knew the dog had a short tail, for I 
 saw T the print of the stump in the sand. I 
 knew he was an old man, from the short- 
 ness of his steps; and I knew he was a 
 
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158 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 white man, from the fact that in walking 
 his toes were turned outward, and the In- 
 dian's feet are always straightforward." 
 
 This was pretty close reasoning, — -equal 
 to the finest specimen of the inductive 
 philosophy of Lord Bacon. 
 
 Regina had exercised her powers of ob- 
 servation to a considerable extent; but she 
 still hoped something would turn up to re- 
 store her to her friends. The Indian wo- 
 men and girls tried to persuade her to 
 marry an Indian ; but she would not hear 
 of such a thing — all Indians were odious 
 in her sight. And, although some of the 
 young braves tried to insinuate themselves 
 into her good graces, she would have no- 
 thing to do with those monsters in human 
 shape. She could not forget the terrible 
 scenes of her father's massacre, and the 
 cleft head of her sister continually seemed 
 to gape upon her. How could she ever 
 have any respect — much less any affection 
 — for the cruel murderers of her dearest 
 friends? One young brave was determined 
 to win her. He bribed the old squaw, with 
 a gallon of rum and some brass trinkets, to 
 
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 assist him. He even went out on a mur- 
 dering excursion, and brought no less than 
 seven scalps, (some of them women and 
 children,) and laid them at Regina's feet! 
 But this horrid brutality only increased her 
 abhorrence. She repulsed all such over- 
 tures. And yet she was afraid that, accord- 
 ing to the Indian fashion, her cruel old 
 mistress might give her away in marriage 
 to some young Indian. But the old hag 
 could not spare her ; for she was now very 
 helpless, and Regina had to support her. 
 God, in his merciful providence, averted so 
 great a calamity, and Regina, with all the 
 hardships and wrongs she had to endure, 
 was never compelled to marry an Indian. 
 For this she had great reason to thank God, 
 and did thank him. 
 
 The Indians and the French were still at 
 war with England. In 1755, four warlike 
 expeditions were projected by the English 
 against the French and Indians: — one 
 against Nova Scotia ; one against the 
 French and Indians on the Ohio, — the ob- 
 ject of this one was to take FortDu Quesne, 
 (now Pittsburg ;) a third was to take Crown 
 
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 REG IX A ; OR, 
 
 Point, and the fourth was directed against 
 Niagara. General Braddock commanded 
 the one against Fort Pitt or Du Qnesne, 
 and suffered a most disastrous defeat. But 
 the other three were partially successful. 
 The French and Indians were routed iu 
 almost every engagement. At length the 
 French had to give up. By the Peace of 
 Paris, made between England and France, 
 in 1763, all the Canadas, Nova Scotia, and 
 the island of Cape Breton, were confirmed 
 to Great Britain. 
 
 The Indians were now in a bad way. 
 Their French allies left them to their fate. 
 They had now the whole power of Great 
 Britain and her colonies to encounter; and 
 they had sense enough to know that if all 
 the Indians, together with the French, 
 could not withstand the soldiers of Eng- 
 land and America, they would stand but a 
 poor chance. They were completely subdued, 
 and agreed to any terms of peace. 
 
 Colonel Boquet dictated the terms of 
 peace with the Indians; and one of the 
 conditions was "that all white children 
 who had been taken captives by the In- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 161 
 
 dians must be given up to the English Go- 
 vernment." This the Indians at once 
 agreed to. But how was this to be done ? 
 Colonel Boquet was an excellent officer and 
 a humane* and benevolent gentleman. He 
 appointed a company of tried veterans, and 
 sent them into all the Indian settlements, to 
 see that this part of the terms of peace was 
 complied with to the very letter. He had a 
 great many applications from parents for 
 their lost children, and, among the rest, 
 one for Regiua from her mother. He was, 
 therefore, deeply interested in this work of 
 mercy. The Indians soon found out that 
 there was now a force sufficiently powerful 
 to crush them, and they willingly gave up 
 all their captives who wanted to leave 
 them. Strange to say, some would not 
 leave them, — they had become so attached 
 to Indian life that they preferred their cap- 
 tivity to freedom. 
 
 At length, they (the soldiers of Colonel 
 Boquet) had finished their work, and more 
 than one hundred poor children — from five 
 to twenty years old — were delivered into 
 his hands. When they were brought into 
 14* 
 
162 
 
 kegiha; or, 
 
 his camp his noble heart was deepty af- 
 fected. Many of these poor children had 
 lost their parents, and they were nearly 
 naked. Colonel Boquet was moved with 
 compassion, and shed tears over the sad 
 and painful spectacle. The brave soldiers 
 under him shared in his noble sympathies, 
 and joined him in giving their blankets, 
 and handkerchiefs, and shirts, and every 
 thing they could spare, to cover the naked 
 children. They were kindly treated by the 
 whole army. 
 
 But the next question that presented it- 
 self to the good colonel was, What is to be 
 done with these children? He consulted 
 with his officers; and it was determined 
 that they should be sent to Fort Pitt in the 
 government baggage-wagons, attended by a 
 strong escort, and that he himself would 
 accompany them. He had them carefully 
 brought to Fort Fitt, and well taken 
 care of. 
 
 This was in September, 1765. He or- 
 dered the facts to be published through- 
 out the colonies, — that a large number of 
 children, given up by the Indians, were 
 
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 now at Fort Pitt, and requested their 
 friends and parents to come and get their 
 long-lost children. A great many from 
 the western counties came ; some found 
 their children and some did not. But, 
 alas ! many poor little children had no 
 parents or friends to claim them. At 
 that time there was no orphan-home near 
 Pittsburg ^as there is now. Just think 
 how happy these little orphans would have 
 been in such a home, where they could 
 have received a good Christian education, 
 and thus become useful members of society. 
 God bless the orphan-home ! 
 
 If you could have been in Pittsburg on 
 the 13th day of September, 1765, and have 
 stood at the lower end of Penn Street, 
 where the old fort stood, — called by the 
 French Fort Du Quesne, (pronounced Du 
 Kane,) and by the English (in honor of 
 "William Pitt) Fort Pitt,— -you might have 
 seen a touching and deeply-affecting sight. 
 The children were all brought out on the 
 parade-ground; and, having been placed 
 front-face in a long row, so that they could 
 be seen, and the anxious parents passing up 
 
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 regixa; or, 
 
 and down looking out for their dear ones ; 
 and then, when the eves of some fond mo- 
 ther would light upon her long-lost child, 
 to see her spring forward and to hear the 
 scream of delight, and then to see that mo- 
 ther falling into a swoon of joy. Then, 
 too, vou might see the tears of sympathy 
 starting from the eyes of the brave and 
 noble officers, and see the rough, hardened, 
 and weather-beaten soldier wiping the tears 
 from his cheeks ! Such scenes were wit- 
 nessed day after day until upward of fifty 
 children had been found by their parents. 
 But there were still fifty or more children 
 who had not been claimed. TThat was to 
 be done with them? Colonel Boquet was 
 not the man to leave a godlike work half- 
 done. He was determined that if these 
 poor children had parents or friends, those 
 parents and friends should have an oppor- 
 tunity of finding their children. He was 
 himself a parent, and could, therefore, enter 
 into a parent's feelings. He determined to 
 take the children to Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 
 
 On the 21st of September, 1763fhe had 
 them again put into the government wa- 
 
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 gons, and, taking with him plenty of pro- 
 visions and clothing and a strong escort, he 
 started on his second mission of mercy. In 
 thirteen days he reached Carlisle. This 
 shows how slowly and tenderly he traveled 
 with his precious freight. This was a work 
 of such importance, and he was so deeply 
 interested in the w r elfare of these children, 
 that he could not give the work over into 
 the hands of his officers, but must see it 
 done himself. Noble fellow ! And did not 
 many a mother bless him to her latest 
 breath ? 
 
 When he arrived at Carlisle a deep in- 
 terest was awakened in that little village in 
 behalf of these children. Everybody w T ent 
 out to the garrison to see them and to pity the 
 poor things. Colonel Boquet had a notice 
 published in ail the papers then issued in 
 Eastern Pennsylvania, that so many chil- 
 dren had been taken from the Indians, and 
 that all parents who had lost their children 
 during the last fifteen years should come to 
 Carlisle and see wdiether their lost ones 
 were among them. 
 
 In Carlisle Regina found persons who 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 could .-peak Gorman, and slie began to 
 think she could not be far from her mo- 
 ther; but, alas! poor thing, she could not 
 tell any person in German where her mo- 
 ther lived. She recollected that they lived 
 among the mountains, — and the mountain 
 back of Carlisle seemed familiar to her; 
 and when she was asked in German where 
 she had lived, she pointed toward the 
 mountains. — for she still understood the 
 German, though she could not speak it. 
 
 She was much interested in the new ob- 
 jects she saw; for there was more finery 
 and fashion then in Carlisle than in Fort 
 Pitt. She had pretty good clothes, too, and 
 plenty to eat — bread and meat and milk. 
 In those days very little coffee and tea were 
 used. 
 
 One of the corporals could speak the In- 
 dian language, and he acted as interpreter 
 between the children and Colonel Boquet 
 and those who came to hunt up their lost 
 children. One day, a gentleman came to 
 look for a daughter who had been lost fif- 
 teen years ; and he thought, as Regina was 
 cue of the oldest, that perhaps she was his 
 
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 daughter. But on a closer examination he 
 found that he was mistaken — as his daugh- 
 ter had black eyes and Regina's were 
 blue. She informed the interpreter, on 
 this occasion, as well as she could, how she 
 had fallen into the hands of the Indians, 
 and that she had only her mother and 
 one brother left, but did not recollect 
 where she had lived, or what her mother's 
 or father's name had been, only that her 
 father's name was John. She also told him 
 her Indian name, which was Sawquehanna; 
 and her former name, which she said was 
 Regina, which, however, she did not pro- 
 nounce correctly as we pronounce it in 
 English. She pronounced it Raghena, half 
 German and half Indian. The interpreter 
 asked if this was the name by which her 
 mother used to call her. She said it was. 
 This fact was communicated to Colonel Bo- 
 quet, who made an entry of it in his book, 
 for he looked upon this as a clue to her 
 parentage. For one of the first questions 
 the parents generally asked was, What are 
 the names of the children ? But some were 
 so young that they did not know their own 
 
168 
 
 kbgina; or. 
 
 names. They all ha J Indian names, which 
 they recollected. 
 
 Poor Eegina asked the interpreter whe- 
 ther she would ever see her mother again ? 
 and how long it would be? and a hundred 
 other questions, which he, of course, could 
 not answer. She now. as she saw one 
 child after another claimed and carried 
 away by fond parents, began to feel more 
 and more anxious to see her mother, 
 ^vvhen the women eame to the garrison to 
 look for their children she always looked 
 for her mother. She was not sure that she 
 would know her. 
 
 Eegina now felt more lost than ever. 
 She had no home — not even the rude hut 
 of her old and ill-natured Indian mistress. 
 It is true. Susan was her constant com- 
 panion ; but Eegina thought that perhaps 
 the parents of Susan would come and claim 
 her, and then they would be separated — 
 perhaps forever. The very thought of be- 
 ing separated from Susan was painful. 
 And when she, one day, mentioned her 
 fears to Susan, the little girl wept and 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG TIIE LOWLY. 161) 
 
 clung closely to her and said, — " No, no; 
 you must not leave me. I will go with you 
 and stay where you stay. We will eat 
 hominy together, and sleep together, and 
 sing and pray together." 
 
no 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE MOTHER. 
 
 HOME OF THE LONELY WIDOW IX THE MOUNTAINS — Tnr, 
 
 STRONG AND UNDYING AF~'fcOTION OF A FOND MOTHER 
 
 HER THOUGHTS OF THE LOTED, THE LOST, THE ABSENT, 
 AND THE DEAD. 
 
 After Mrs. Hartman returned from her 
 long journey to Fort Fitt, she thought she 
 had now done all she could to recover her 
 lost Regina, and she would now wait and 
 see what God would do. She heard 
 nothing of her daughter, and yet she was 
 strongly impressed with the thought that 
 she would yet see her; hut where, or how, 
 she knew not. Every thing was in God's 
 hands, and he would so order affiurs that 
 she would yet find her. Her prayers were 
 constantly going up to the eternal throne in 
 behalf of Regina. Those prayers would he 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 171 
 
 heard. She knew that God would hear 
 prayer, and, in his own good time, answer 
 it to the joy and comfort of her heart. The 
 whole Bible is full of the evidences that 
 God hears prayer. Mrs. Hartman had read 
 her Bible with care, and in it she found 
 many instances where God had answered 
 prayer, and this gave her encouragement 
 and hope. She became more fervent in 
 prayer. 
 
 In looking over the passages she had 
 marked in the Bible, she found that when 
 Abraham's servant prayed in Mesopotamia, 
 while he was yet speaking Rebecca made 
 her appearance. (Gen. xxiv. 12.) When 
 Jacob wrestled with an angel of God at 
 Jabbok, Esau's mind was changed. (Gen. 
 xxxii. 24.) When Moses, the man of God, 
 prayed at Eephiclim, Israel prevailed against 
 Amalek. (Ex. xvii. 8.) When Joshua prayed, 
 the sun stood still ; and he prays again, 
 and Achan is discovered. When Hannah 
 prayed, God heard and gave her a son. 
 David prayed, and Ahithophel hung him- 
 self. When Asa prayed, God gave him a 
 great victory over his enemies. Daniel 
 
kegen'a; ok. 
 
 prayed in the Hod's den, and God shut np 
 their mouths. The three Hebrew children 
 prayed in the furnace, and the flames did 
 not hurt them. Mordeeai and Esther fast 
 and pray, and the enemy of God s people 
 ^Hainan) is hanged on a gallows fifty cubits 
 high. Elijah prays, and no rain falls for 
 three years and a half: he prays again, and 
 a torrent of rain descends. Elisha prays, 
 the river Jordan is divided ; he prays again, 
 the son of the Shunammite returns to life. 
 When the church at Jerusalem prayed, 
 Peter was delivered from prison. (Acts xii. 
 5.) Paul aud Silas prayed at midnight, 
 and the foundation of the prison is shaken. 
 These things Mrs. Hartman recollected, and 
 had great confidence in prayer. 
 
 Oh. what has not prayer accomplished ? 
 In the language of another. — ** Prayer has 
 i.I: t .~1 led seas, rolled up flowing rivers, made 
 flinty rocks gush into flowing fountains, 
 quenched flames of fire, muzzled lions, dis- 
 armed vipers, marshaled the stars against 
 the wicked, stopped the course of the moon, 
 arrested the sun in his swift race, hurst 
 open iron gates, recalled souls from eter- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 173 
 
 nity, conquered the strongest devils, com- 
 manded legions of angels down from hea- 
 ven ! Prayer has bridled and chained the 
 raging passions of men, and has routed and 
 destroyed vast armies of proud and daring 
 infidels and atheists." 
 
 Mrs. Hartman knew that prayer had 
 brought Jonah from the bottom of the sea, 
 and had taken Elijah to heaven on a chariot 
 of fire, and she believed that prayer could 
 bring back her lost daughter. Hence, she 
 prayed most importunately to God for the 
 recovery of Eegina. JSTor did she pray in 
 vain. God heard the widow's sighs and 
 groans. 
 
 We cannot forbear inserting a quotation 
 here from the pen of the Tlev. W. E. Wil- 
 liams, D.D., of New York, which is beauti- 
 ful and eloquent, and seems to point to just 
 such a lowly cottage, buried in a deep forest, 
 as Mrs. Hartman 's was* 
 
 "And how vast the range of blessing 
 your prayers may take ! Who can tell the 
 history or trace the wanderings of yon cloud 
 that sails in light and glory across the sky, or 
 indicate from what source its bosom has been 
 
 15* 
 
TO 
 
 REGIXA ; OR, 
 
 filled with the vapor? it is vet to shed back 
 upon the earth ? Perhaps, though now wan- 
 dering over the tilled field and the peopled 
 Tillage, its stores were drawn from some 
 shaded fountain in the deep forest, where 
 the eye of man has scarce ever penetrated. 
 In silent obscurity that fountain yielded its 
 pittance, and did its work of preparing to 
 bless the far-off lands that shall yet he glad 
 for it. And even thus it is with prayer. 
 Little do we know often of the secret origin 
 of the dews of blessing that descend on the 
 churches of God. In the recesses of some 
 lowly cottage — in the depths of some hum- 
 ble heart — may be going on the work of 
 pious intercession, in answer to which the 
 grace of heaven descends on us and on our 
 children, on the labors of the wondering 
 and joyful pastor, and on the hearts of the 
 far-off heathen, until the wilderness and the 
 solitary places are glad for them. The time 
 is to come when from every home such 
 prayer shall arise. Let us sustain and 
 swell, in our day, the ascending volume of 
 supplication that is jet to roll around the 
 globe, and never to fail until over a world 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 175 
 
 regenerated and purified the morning stars 
 shall again shout for joy, and the earth, 
 emerging from her long and disastrous 
 eclipse of sin and wrath, shall yet again 
 walk the heavens in her unsullied bright- 
 ness." 
 
 The pious Germans are firm believers in 
 God's special providence and interposition. 
 Some think they carry the matter too far. 
 Henry Yung Stilling has had a powerful 
 influence, by his numerous works, over the 
 pious German mind. Indeed, all their 
 pious writers inculcate a strong and firm 
 belief in a very special providence. But 
 Mrs. Hartman loved to think that the God 
 she adored would, somehow or other, inter- 
 pose in her behalf and restore her child. 
 Ah! little did that pious heart, buried in 
 the dismal gloom of a dark forest in 
 America, think that her humble prayers 
 were moving the hand that moved the 
 universe ! 
 
 Yet so it was. God influenced the hearts 
 of the English officers to appeal to the gov- 
 ernment, to prosecute a vigorous war against 
 the French; and, when the French were 
 
170 
 
 kegixa; or, 
 
 overcome, their allies (the Indians) became 
 powerless. Thus, not only the prayers, but 
 also the heroic conduct, of this devoted mo- 
 ther in going to Fort Pitt in search of her 
 lost daughter, had their effect. Her labor 
 was not in vain in the Lord. 
 
 As her long-absent and lost daughter had 
 often asked herself the question, M "Would I 
 know my mother if I were to see her?" so 
 the mother often asked herself the question, 
 ""WouM I know my lost daughter even if I 
 were to see her?" And she called up in 
 her imagination her beautiful and lovely 
 daughter as she looked when she was ten 
 years old. Her fair, transparent skin, with 
 its carmine tints ; her large, full, round blue 
 eyes: her fine, glossy hair: her fat, round 
 form, and her dimpled chin, — all rose up in 
 her imagination like a beautiful ambro- 
 type. And she loved to gaze on this beau- 
 tiful re-creation of her lovely daughter. 
 But then she reflected, as she was now 
 nineteen years old, how changed she must 
 be. Perhaps her complexion has faded, the 
 form of her expression changed, and her 
 once happy spirit broken. Deep emotion 
 
TRUE FIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 177 
 
 would not permit her to dwell on this pain- 
 ful subject. And she consoled herself with 
 the reflection that she was in the hands of 
 God, and that he would take care of her. 
 
 Thus things moved on during the sum- 
 mer. The widow and her son had been 
 busy. Aud as the fall was now again 
 closing in upon her, — that melancholy sea- 
 son, in which she had met with all her mis- 
 fortunes, — when she saw the sere and yel- 
 low leaf of autumn, she could not but think 
 of the terrible scenes of nine years before, 
 when her husband was murdered and her 
 children were carried away. 
 
 One day, when she was in a gloomy and 
 melancholy mood, having thought a great 
 deal about her daughter, Christian came 
 "running to the house and told his mother 
 that a gentleman was riding up the lane 
 toward the house on a gray horse, and he 
 wondered who he was. The widow stood 
 at the window and looked out. She saw 
 him coming past the stable ; but he was a 
 stranger. He rode to the fence, dis- 
 mounted, hitched his horse, and came 
 into the house. When he came in he 
 
178 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 inquired whether this was the place 
 where the widow Hartman lived? She 
 answered in the affirmative. She won- 
 dered what he conlcl possibly have come 
 for; it was very seldom that a stranger 
 came into that lonely region. As it was 
 near noon, Mrs. Hartman, with true Ger- 
 man hospitality, proposed to have his horse 
 put in the stable, and said she would get 
 him his dinner. Christian then took his 
 horse to the stable and gave him a good 
 feed, and, after some time, a good and sub- 
 stantial dinner was prepared for the stran- 
 ger. The widow was still in suspense as to 
 the stranger's business. Her curiosity was, 
 of course, awakened; but she was too 
 sensible a woman to be rude in asking 
 questions. But, while sitting at the table, 
 she ventured to ask him if was going any 
 further up the valley? He replied, no; but 
 that he intended to return that same day to 
 Tulpehocken. And, without keeping her 
 in suspense any longer, he informed her 
 that the Rev. Mr. Kurtz, then pastor of the 
 Lutheran church at Tulpehocken, (where 
 the Rev. L. Eggers now resides,) had sent 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 170 
 
 him over to let her know that Colonel Boquet 
 had brought a large number of children — who 
 were taken from the Indians — to Carlisle, and, 
 perhaps, her lost daughter might be among them. 
 " This is my only business," said he. I can- 
 not describe the tumultuous thoughts and 
 feelings of the poor mother's heart! She 
 could not speak for a few moments ; the 
 blood rushed to her face, and then back to 
 her heart, and she almost fainted. The 
 first words she could utter were, " God bless 
 you! God bless you and Parson Kurtz! 
 My daughter is there ; — I know it, I know 
 it! My prayers have been heard, thank 
 the Lord! I knew he would hear me." 
 And thus she went on for some time. The 
 stranger, whose name I have forgotten, 
 tried to comfort her, and, after some time, 
 mounted his horse and returned. 
 
 No doubt that man felt happy that day. 
 And when he laid his head upon his pil- 
 low at night, and thought of the joy he 
 had carried to that poor widow's heart, he 
 felt that acts of kindness have their own re- 
 ward. To do good to others is to be happy 
 ourselves. 
 
ISO 
 
 REGIXA ; OR, 
 
 The widow had made up her mind at 
 onee what she would do. She would go 
 that same afternoon to a neighbor's and 
 borrow another horse, — for she had only 
 one. Christian would ride one and she 
 the other; then they could bring Regina 
 back. For, from the first momeut she 
 heard of the children being at Carlisle, she 
 felt confident that her lost daughter was 
 among them. Her arrangements were soon 
 made. A neighbor-woman promised to go 
 over to her house every day and see that 
 every thing was right, and feed the ani- 
 mals she had about her. They were ready 
 long before day next morning, but did not 
 start until the gray light began to shoot up 
 the eastern sky. 
 
 Mrs. Hartman knew the road to Carlisle, 
 as she had passed through it on her way to 
 Fort Fitt. The first day they came to a 
 tarm-house, near the place where Lebanon 
 now stands. The second day they came to 
 Harris's Ferry; from this latter place they 
 had only twenty miles to Carlisle. Early 
 in the morning, directed by Mr. Harris, 
 they forded the Susquehanna river, which 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 181 
 
 was then very low, and soon turned their 
 faces toward Carlisle. As they approached 
 Carlisle the widow became very much ex- 
 cited. Her daughter — her long-lost daugh- 
 ter ; — would she know her daughter ? would 
 her daughter know her? were questions 
 that crowded upon her mind. 
 
 She was absorbed in these reflections, 
 and scarcely heard the numerous questions 
 which Christian asked her about the strange 
 things he saw. At last he looked up, and, 
 pointing up in the air a good piece ahead, 
 he inquired, "What is that, mother?" 
 She looked up and saw the British flag, as 
 it waved over the garrison. She knew it, 
 for she had seen it before, both at Fort Pitt 
 and at Carlisle. " That," she replied, "is 
 Carlisle; we will now soon be there." 
 They were then about two miles off, on the 
 old Trindle Spring Road. They hastened 
 on; and, about two o'clock in the afternoon, 
 they reached the town. 
 
 They went to a tavern, — a stone house in 
 the center of the town, — where they dis- 
 mounted ; but the landlord could not speak . 
 German. There was a German, however, 
 
 16 
 
182 
 
 BflQSfA; OR, 
 
 in the house, who acted as interpreter. 
 She soon made her business known, and 
 every one seemed to take an interest in as- 
 s:s::ng her. They did not want any thing 
 to eat, for they had taken dinner some six 
 or seven miles from Carlisle. The widow 
 was anxious at once to see the good Colo- 
 nel Boquet. She asked the German man at 
 the inn to go with her. 
 
 Her feelings cannot be described. Xone 
 but a mother, placed in similar circum- 
 stances, can enter fully into her feelings. 
 She first went to Colonel Boquet, and told 
 him (through the interpreter) all about her 
 daughter: — how long she had been absent, 
 how old she was, how she looked ; but such 
 a child as she described was not there. 
 The colonel, it seems, had forgotten the 
 name (Hegina) which he had recorded in 
 his book. 
 
 After some conversation he took her into 
 a large room, into which he had ordered all 
 the captives to be taken. There they were, 
 all looking cheerful and happy. Mrs. Hart- 
 man walked in and looked all around for her 
 child : but. alas ! she was not there. She 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 183 
 
 had the image of Regina engraved upon 
 her heart as she appeared nine years before, 
 when she was a child. She passed through 
 the room three or four times, and minutely 
 examined the thirty girls that were there ; 
 but there was not one that seemed to bear 
 any resemblance to Regina. There was 
 one there that she addressed in German ; 
 but the poor child did not understand her. 
 It was only then that she was informed that 
 the children could speak no other than the 
 Indian language. With a sad heart she 
 was leaving the room, when she met the 
 large, lustrous, blue eyes of what she 
 thought was a stately Indian girl. She did 
 not speak to her, but passed on. 
 
 It was now near night; and she had 
 come to the conclusion that her daughter 
 was not there. And when Colonel Boquet 
 informed her that he had taken all the chil- 
 dren from the Indians, she came to the con- 
 clusion that Regina was dead; and, if so, it 
 was her duty to submit to the will of God. 
 All her joyful anticipations of meeting her 
 long-lost child were now blasted. Hope, 
 which had long borue her up, now sick- 
 
184 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 ened and died. She went to the tavern, 
 but had no appetite to eat. 
 
 When she retired to her bed that night, it 
 was not to sleep, but to spend a night of 
 agony. She prayed, and wept, and prayed 
 again, until she became calm and tranquil. 
 
 In the morning she had made up her 
 mind that she would leave Carlisle. It was 
 no use to stay any longer. She had seen 
 all the girls, and she was sure Regina was 
 not there. "When she was about to start, 
 the German man at the tavern told her that 
 a great many people were coming that day 
 for their children, and that the children 
 were to be paraded in the center of the 
 town at nine o'clock, and that she had bet- 
 ter remain. Although, she said, she knew 
 her child was not there, yet it would do her 
 heart good to see other parents rinding their 
 lost children, and she would remain. She 
 did remain, and the result you shall soon 
 see. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 185 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 THE DAUGHTER. 
 
 THE WIDOW'S TOILS AND LABORS REWARDED — THE LOST 
 FOUND — THE MEANS OF THE DISCOVERY — A THRILLING 
 
 SCENE — REGINA IN HER FOND MOTHER'S ARMS HAPPY, 
 
 HAPPY MOTHER! 
 
 Carlisle was all in commotion. A large 
 number of strangers were in town, many 
 of whom had come to see the rescued cap- 
 tives, and others had come to seek their 
 long-lost children. 
 
 About nine o'clock in the morning — be- 
 ing a bright, clear, and lovely day in Sep- 
 tember, neither too cold nor too warm — a 
 noise and bustle were heard, accompanied by 
 the shrill fife and the tap of the drum. Mrs. 
 Hartman and Christian looked out of the 
 window, and there were the children, es- 
 corted by a platoon of soldiers, coming up 
 the street from the garrison, with Colonel 
 
 16* 
 
~T:. 
 
 Boquet at their head. They were brought 
 up into one of those beautiful squares for 
 which Carlisle is noted. The largest and 
 finest-looking boys and girls were in front 
 and the smaller ones in the rear. Eegina 
 was in the foremost rank and Susan in the 
 rear. Poor little Susan almost broke her 
 heart when she was separated from Regina. 
 She could not understand why she dare not 
 walk with Regina. But the colonel had 
 his notions formed on the most approved 
 principles of military tactics, and so he 
 would have it. The girls were all neatly 
 dressed — every thing but bonnets. Instead 
 of bonnets the colonel had given each girl 
 a fine red handkerchief, which they were 
 ordered to put over their heads ; although 
 those poor girls, who had been so long 
 among the Indians, did not consider it any 
 great favor to have the head protected 
 either from the sun or the cold. The 
 boys had hats on, and were all dressed like 
 little soldiers. When the colonel had 
 brought them to the public square, he 
 placed them on a beautiful green, between 
 the old court-house and the old stone 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 187 
 
 church, facing the present railroad. The 
 ground is now enclosed with iron railing, as 
 the court-house yard. This was a novel 
 sight, to see so many children that had been 
 so long among the Indians. All the people 
 in town went to see them. 
 
 A number of parents were there, looking 
 with anxious eyes over the company of cap- 
 tives. Every now and then some father or 
 mother, and sometimes both, would be 
 made happy by finding a long-lost child. 
 On such occasions the assembled multitude 
 would join in the shout of joy; for every 
 time a child was recognised by its parents 
 a shout would be uttered. Poor Mrs. 
 Hartman was, of course, glad to see this. 
 Some twenty or thirty children were that 
 day recognised. 
 
 At length, about noon, Mrs. Hartman 
 made up her mind that she would start off 
 and go as far as Harris's Ferry that night. 
 While she was standing at the head of the 
 captives, she could not help looking at the 
 fine, tall, Indian-looking girl with the large 
 blue eyes. She passed and repassed her 
 frequently, and she noticed that the Indian 
 
188 
 
 regixa; or, 
 
 girl was looking at her; but here the mat- 
 ter ended, 'While standing there, — look- 
 ing at the stately Indian girl, and as she 
 was just about to leave the ground. — Colo- 
 nel Boquet, with the interpreter, came up 
 to her and addressed her, and asked her 
 whether she could see nothing of her 
 daughter? She replied, in sobs, that her 
 daughter was not there. The colonel then 
 inquired whether there were no marks 
 upon her by which she could recognise 
 her? She could recollect none. He then 
 asked her whether she did not recollect 
 some songs or hymns that her daughter 
 might have heard her sing before her cap- 
 tivity. She said, yes : her daughter was a 
 good German singer, and they had often 
 sung the hymn — 
 
 * Allein.. und doch nicht ganz allein, 
 Bin ich — " 
 
 In English. — 
 
 "Alone, and yet not all alone, am I." 
 
 "'Well,'' says the colonel, '-now suppose 
 you just sing that hymn. Start here, at 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 18 !» 
 
 the head of the company, and I will walk 
 with you, and you shall sing the iiymn 
 that you and your daughter used to sing 
 together; and if she is here it will awaken 
 the right chord. She has not forgotten 
 those early songs." 
 
 Mrs. Hartman said it was no use. Her 
 daughter was not there, and the English 
 people would only laugh at her German 
 singing. But the colonel insisted upon it. 
 So she took off her bonnet, at the colo- 
 nel's request. She was standing near the 
 head of the little army of captives. She 
 commenced, with a clear, loud, and tremu- 
 lous voice, — 
 
 "Allein, und doch nicht ganz allein, 
 Bin ich — " 
 
 ("Alone, and yet not all alone, am I.") 
 
 The eyes of all were directed toward her. 
 She had come to the second line, when a 
 shrill, sharp sound w 7 as heard. It came 
 from the tall Indian-looking girl with the 
 large blue eyes. The next moment she 
 was i _ her mother's arms ! The mother 
 
190 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 looked wild with amazement; but she 
 knew it was her daughter, for she joined 
 her mother in singing. But the singing 
 was soon stopped ; and a great crowd soon 
 gathered round ; and, when matters were 
 fairly understood, a shout of joy went forth 
 from the assembled multitude that made 
 the welkin ring. 
 
 The mother's joy was like that of Per- 
 icles, the Prince of Tyre, who, accord- 
 ing to Shakspeare, when he found his 
 lost daughter Marina, called upon the 
 gods (for he was a heathen) to keep the 
 sea of joy from bursting the shores of his 
 mortality. So it was with this poor 
 widow. She had now found her long-lost 
 daughter. 
 
 When little Susan saw what was going 
 on, she came to Regina and refused to 
 leave her; and, as there were none to 
 claim her, Colonel Boquet permitted Re- 
 gina to take her along. 
 
 Mrs. Hartman made up her mind to re- 
 main in Carlisle that night, and to start 
 early in the morning for her home. How 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 191 
 
 they got home, and how they got along 
 at home, you will see in the next chap- 
 ter. Never was there a happier family. 
 The dead were alive, and the lost were 
 found. 
 
192 
 
 KEG in a: ok. 
 
 CHAPTER XH. 
 
 REGINA AT HOME AGAIN. 
 
 HER HABITS — HER AWKWARD PREDICAMENT HOW SHE 
 
 LEARNED GERMAN THE SECOND TIME HER IMPERFECT 
 
 RELIGION HER TRUE CONVERSION TO GOD — HER CON- 
 NECTION WITH THE LUTHERAN CHURCH MRS. HART- 
 
 MAN'S CUP OF JOY FULL HEAVEN UPON EARTH RELI- 
 GION THE BEST OF ALL. 
 
 We last saw Regina in the arms of her 
 affectionate mother in the public square at 
 Carlisle. Airs. Hartman did not speak to 
 her daughter immediately. More than this, 
 there was such a crowd gathered around 
 the mother and daughter, that they had no 
 opportunity to converse ; and they were so 
 overwhelmed with joy that mere words 
 were entirely inadequate to convey their 
 thoughts to each other. There is a lan- 
 guage far more expressive than words; the 
 deep and silent gaze of affection reaches 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 193 
 
 into the heart to an extent that words never 
 could. Mrs. Hartman was wild — yea, al- 
 most frantic with delight, and Regina 
 was in the same happy mood. It was a 
 moment of exquisite joy, and almost com- 
 pensated her for the hardships and sor- 
 rows she had endured in her long cap- 
 tivity. 
 
 When her mother went to the tavern, 
 which was close by, Regina followed her. 
 They went into a private room. JSTo one was 
 there but Mrs. Hartman, Regina, Susan, 
 Colonel Boquet, and Christian. The mo- 
 ther then first addressed her daughter, but 
 got no answer. This affected her heart 
 very much, and she wept when she found 
 her daughter did not speak to her. Even 
 then the dark thought rapidly flitted 
 through her mind, — " Perhaps, after all, it 
 is not Regina;" but, no, it must be she. 
 How else could she have sung — 
 
 "Alone, and yet not all alone, am I"? 
 
 And then there were her large, full, blue 
 eyes, — the only part of her beautiful coun- 
 tenance that the rude Indian habits could 
 17 
 
194 
 
 BEGIN A; OR, 
 
 not mar or destroy ; and the mother went 
 up to her and parted her dark-brown, 
 coarse-looking hair, and under that saw the 
 vestiges of her once beautiful auburn hair. 
 
 Regina attempted to speak to her mo- 
 ther, but could not. She had forgotten 
 how to frame and pronounce words in Ger- 
 man. She had picked up a few French 
 words from a young Indian woman, who 
 had come from Canada, and who lived 
 near her in Xew York. She could say 
 nothing but "ma chere mere, ma chere 
 mere" — " my dear mother, my dear mother;" 
 but this was all Greek to Mrs. Hartman. 
 At last, she asked her whether she could 
 not talk German any more. She shook her 
 head. Mrs. Hartman then began to see 
 how matters stood, — viz. : that Regina had 
 forgotten how to speak German. Colonel 
 Boquet had sent for his Canadian German, 
 who could speak English, German, and In- 
 dian, and had a long conversation with Re- 
 gina and her mother, until he was fully satis- 
 fied that Mrs. Hartman had really found 
 her daughter. Of course, Regina remained 
 with her mother, and they talked by signs. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 195 
 
 Mrs. Hartman asked her if she knew Chris- 
 tian ? she shook her head. 
 
 They ate their supper; and Susan — hav- 
 ing been put under Mrs. Hartman's eare 
 until she should be claimed, of course 
 became one of the Hartman family. At 
 night, when they retired to rest, as the 
 tavern was pretty well thronged, Mrs. Hart- 
 man, Regina, and Susan had to occupy one 
 bed. Before they retired Mrs. Hartman 
 kneeled down with the girls and prayed. 
 She poured out her heart to God in 
 thankfulness. But they had been in bed 
 a very little time until Regina and Susan 
 got up, which somewhat alarmed Mrs. 
 Hartman, until by signs and motions she 
 was made to understand that they could 
 not sleep in a bed. The Indians have no 
 beds ; they sleep on skins and leaves, but 
 never in beds. Regina could not rest in a 
 good soft bed ; she, therefore, took a blan- 
 ket and spread it on the floor, and she and 
 Susan slept very comfortably on the hard 
 boards. Habit seems to be every thing. 
 
 Bright and early Mrs. Hartman was up 
 the next morning; and, as soon as break- 
 
196 
 
 rrghta; or, 
 
 fast was over, they started. Mrs. Hartman 
 took Regina behind her on the horse, and 
 Christian took Susan. They had a plea- 
 sant trip home. 
 
 As soon as it was known that Mrs. Hart- 
 man had found her daughter, all the neigh- 
 bors called to see her, and congratulated 
 her on her good fortune. Her home now 
 appeared as pleasant as ever. God had re- 
 stored her daughter; and Mrs. Hartman 
 felt truly thankful to her heavenly Father 
 for his goodness and mercy. Her life was 
 now to be more devoted to his service. 
 
 When they first approached the house, 
 Regina recollected the tall old pine-tree 
 that stood in the yard, throwing its wide- 
 spreading arms over the neat little cottage, 
 and, like a faithful sentinel, protecting it 
 from the sunshine and the storm. How 
 Regina's heart leaped for joy when she re- 
 cognized this old companion of her youth, 
 under whose dense foliage she had so often 
 sat and laughed and played ! AVhen she 
 first saw it she cried out, ••TTash-ock! wash- 
 ock V which means, the green tree. She 
 had forgotten the German word, "baam" 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 197 
 
 — tree, and, therefore, used the Indian 
 word. 
 
 Many amusing scenes might have been 
 witnessed between Retina and the neigh- 
 bors who called to see her. They could 
 not understand how Retina should have 
 forgotten the German, which was so plain 
 to them. An old, loquacious lady said she 
 could make her talk. She went up to her 
 and took her by the hand, and said, " Come 
 now, Regina, let us talk together;" but 
 Regina could not utter one word in Ger- 
 man, so she commenced talking in the In- 
 dian language. The old lady was fairly 
 outdone, and gave it up, confessing that the 
 girl had lost her German. Then a grave 
 question arose among the party — will Re- 
 gina ever be able to learn the German 
 again ? The matter was fully discussed ; 
 and, finally, it was agreed to by all, that 
 she could never learn German, for she 
 was too old. But those good people were 
 not much acquainted with the laws of 
 mind, or they would have come to a differ- 
 ent conclusion. Those who have thought 
 most on the structure and constitution of 
 
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198 
 
 kegina; or, 
 
 the human mind tell us, that early impres- 
 sions are never obliterated or erased from 
 the mind, and what we call forgetting, is 
 nothing more than a covering up of the 
 first ideas. And the process of recollection 
 is nothing more than an uncovering — some- 
 thing like unrolling an Egyptian mummy. 
 So it is with language ; the first one a child 
 learns will remain in the mind, and, under 
 proper circumstances, will come to the 
 light. Mr. Abercrombie, in his " Mental 
 Philosophy," give many illustrations of this 
 fact. Dr. Muhlenberg, too, says that he 
 sometimes met with Swedes who had not 
 spoken their mother-tongue for more than 
 half a century, and yet, on their death- 
 bed, they always prayed in the Swedish 
 language. 
 
 Dr. Rush confirms this statement ; for he 
 informs us that, when attending persons 
 who had not spoken their mother-tongue 
 for forty, Mty, or sixty years, the long lost 
 language would invariably return at the ap- 
 proach of death, and they would sing and 
 pray in the language of their youth. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Johnson, it is said, when he 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 
 
 109 
 
 came to die, did not speak in the majestic 
 and lofty language of his own creation. 
 He forgot the sweet cadences of those beau- 
 tiful Latin hymns which he so much ad- 
 mired, but was heard to utter the simple 
 little prayers he had heard and learned to 
 lisp at his mother's knees. 
 
 The celebrated Mr. Tennent, a pious 
 Presbyterian preacher, wdio had made con- 
 siderable progress in Latin, when he had 
 nearly finished his education fell into a 
 trance, and came very near being buried 
 alive. When he recovered from his trance 
 he had forgotten all his Latin, and com- 
 menced to study it the second time. One 
 day, while he was trying to read a page in 
 Cornelius Nepos, he w r as startled by the 
 rushing of something through his brain, 
 and a moment after he recollected all he 
 had forgotten. 
 
 So with Regina. Her German was not 
 forgotten : it w 7 as only covered up under 
 the rubbish of the Indian tongue, and, by 
 degrees, her knowledge of the German re- 
 turned. And when she found herself able 
 to converse in German, many and many an 
 
200 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 hour was spent by the family in listening 
 to her account of her hardships and her 
 sufferings. Her prayers and hymns she 
 had not forgotten. These she never neg- 
 lected ; and the reciting of these kept the 
 idea of an ever-present God always alive in 
 her heart. Oh, how important it is that 
 children should early be taught the true 
 knowledge of God even in their infancy. 
 God only knows where their lot may be 
 cast, and how much may depend upon their 
 knowledge of God. Let all children learn 
 to "know God and his Son Jesus Christ, 
 w T hom to know aright is life eternal." 
 
 Regina, as may very readily be imagined, 
 in consequence of her long residence among 
 uncultivated and uncivilized barbarians, was 
 very awkward in her manners and uncouth 
 in her habits. For instance, she did not, 
 as we have already seen, like to lie on a 
 soft bed; she did not even like to sit on 
 a chair; she preferred, Indian fashion, to sit 
 on the ground. She could not bear her 
 clothes at all tight on her body. 'Nor did 
 she know how to use the knife and fork 
 at the table; and it was sometime before 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 201 
 
 she could get used to her mother's way of 
 cooking. She was very fond of nuts of all 
 kinds; and the acorns of the white-oak, 
 when dried, she preferred even to hickory- 
 nuts. She showed her mother how the In- 
 dians cured and kept them. They gathered 
 them late in the fall, put them in bags that 
 w T ould hold about a half-bushel, and hung 
 them in the chimney, — or, w r hen they had 
 no chimney, in the loft under the rafters, — 
 where they would be smoked. It is said, 
 when thus dried, the acorn will lose its bit- 
 ter taste and become almost as sweet as the 
 chestnut. 
 
 By degrees, Kegina learned to speak Ger- 
 man. She listened very attentively to the 
 other members of the family; and in some 
 two or three months she began to express 
 herself in German. The blunders she 
 sometimes made, in using Indian words 
 with her German, were very amusing. 
 She loved to hear her mother reading, and 
 especially in the Bible. When she was 
 able to converse readily with her mo- 
 ther, she w T as very anxious to know where 
 the Bible came from. And when her mo- 
 
202 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 ther told her that it came from God, she 
 wanted to know all about it; — how God 
 gave it, and when, and to whom? So her 
 mother had to tell her all she knew about 
 it, which was not much, it is true; but, 
 still, it satisfied her curiosity. She told her 
 that God gave the commandments to the 
 children of Israel; that her old pastor at 
 Reutlingen, in Germany, when she went to 
 catechize, had explained the matter to her, 
 and, she was sure, if any body understood 
 the matter, he did. The fact is, she was a 
 simple, pious child of God, and believed all 
 that God said in his blessed word. 
 It might be said of her, — 
 
 " The terms of disputative art 
 Had never reached her ear; 
 She laid her hand upon her heart, 
 And only answered, 'Here.' " 
 
 When Regina could speak German pretty 
 well again, she was exceedingly anxious to 
 be able to read. So her mother and her 
 brother Christian taught her, and Susan 
 also. They soon mastered the A B C's; 
 and, during the long winter nights, they 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 203 
 
 both learned to read. Rcgina used to say, 
 " Oh, if she could only converse with God, 
 and have God to converse with her, she 
 would be so happy!" She had learned in 
 her catechism that we converse w T ith God 
 in prayer, and that he converses with us in 
 his word. Hence her anxiety to read his 
 word. 
 
 In the spring of 1766 she was sent to 
 Tulpehocken to catechize; and on "Whit- 
 suntide she was confirmed according to the 
 usages of the Lutheran church. The pastor 
 (Rev. J. ~N. Kurtz) was very faithful in the 
 discharge of his duty. He was a pious and 
 holy man of the Franckean school. He 
 came to this country as a candidate from 
 Halle in 1745, and, for a few years, was 
 assistant preacher to Dr. H. M. Muhlen- 
 berg. He was a man of deep Christian ex- 
 perience, — as were all the ministers who 
 were educated at Halle. These men came 
 here to do good, to huild up a spiritual tem- 
 ple to the Lord. Muhlenberg, Handshuh, 
 Heinzelman, Krug, Rouss, J. Nicholas 
 Kurtz and William Kurtz, and many others, 
 were all men of this school. Practical 
 
204 
 
 LEG IX A : OR, 
 
 piety was of more importance to them than 
 a mere dead orthodoxy. 
 
 In order to give the reader an exact idea 
 of the state of things in the Lutheran 
 church at that period, we must here oc- 
 cupy a few pages with a digression, and 
 show them how matters stood at that time. 
 
 The Lutheran church dates from October 
 30, 1517, when Luther burnt the pope's 
 bull at Wittenberg, thus manfully setting 
 his power at defiance. Luther, in the 
 hands of God. was the principal instru- 
 ment of the Reformation. The Reforma- 
 tion grew out of his conversion to God. 
 His conversion was marked and decided, 
 lie had to drink the wormwood and the 
 gall. Deep and long and pungent were 
 the agonies of his awakened soul. You 
 will rind a full and extensive account 
 of his awakening and conversion in 
 the book. ••Luther, by a Lutheran." — the 
 fullest you can rind anywhere. Read it 
 carefully. 
 
 The Reformation grew out of his con- 
 version. Of this there can be no doubt. 
 For, without his experimental piety, his 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 205 
 
 learning, his talents, and his almost super- 
 human eloquence, could never have accom- 
 plished this mighty work. We must net 
 forget that Philip Melancthon, who was 
 also a truly pious man, was a great help to 
 Luther. He did much, by his learning and 
 piety, in promoting the Keformation. As 
 long as these holy men lived, our church 
 prospered. Nothing could stand before 
 her. This may be called the golden age 
 of our church. But, as soon as these holy 
 men had fallen asleep in the Lord, a differ- 
 ent spirit prevailed, The fathers of the Lu- 
 theran church, as soon as the blessed Re- 
 formers were dead, got into the unholy 
 spirit of rancorous controversy, and, having 
 lost the spirit of experimental piety, instead 
 of manfully battling with sin and popery as 
 their fathers had done, foolishly turned their 
 acrimonious weapons against each other. 
 In those long-continued and often bitter 
 and unchristian controversies, the conten- 
 tion was more for the outward form of god- 
 liness than for its inward power. Those 
 learned doctors who were most zealous for 
 
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206 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 uniformity and orthodoxy were generally 
 the least pious. This has always been the 
 case, and is true in our own age. True 
 piety must always be found among the 
 ministers of the Protestant church, or she 
 cannot prosper. The church of Rome, 
 and all Protestant churches which, like the 
 church of Rome, place more confidence in 
 forms than in living piety, can get along 
 without piety in their ministers. The peo- 
 ple must have either an active, living piety, 
 or liturgies and ceremonies and forms. So 
 it has always been, so it is now. Human 
 nature is the same in all ages and in all 
 countries. The spirit of controversy grew 
 hotter and hotter until it reached its culmi- 
 nating point, about 1580. During this tur- 
 bulent age, theological education was neg- 
 lected, and personal piety was scarcely 
 thought of. Dr. Spener says, — " The stu- 
 dents entered the university without any 
 idea of what theology was, regarding it as a 
 mere matter of memory. Prayer and per- 
 sonal piety were considered as of no conse- 
 quence, lie who became an experimental 
 Christian, or who dared to advocate vital 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 207 
 
 piety, was stigmatized as a Pharisee or a 
 Hosicrucian." 
 
 Though the standard of piety was low, yet 
 the Lord always had his faithful servants in 
 our church ; he never forsook her alto- 
 gether. In the darkest hours of the 
 church the Lord always raised up and 
 qualified men of commanding talents to 
 fight her battles, and to labor and pray and 
 suffer for her welfare. 
 
 And this fact should give hope and en- 
 couragement to those who are now warring 
 against the inroads formalism and semi- 
 popery are making upon the Lutheran 
 church in America. Let them stand fast; 
 God is on their side. The Lutheran church 
 needed a second Reformation, not from the 
 shackles of popery, but from the formalism 
 and error that had usurped the place of true 
 piety in her own bosom. And God raised 
 up a succession of holy and godly ministers, 
 who, from time to time, carried forward this 
 glorious work. And so he will continue to 
 do until his church shall be " bright as the 
 sun, fair as the moon, and terrible as an 
 army with banners." 
 
203 
 
 regixa; or, 
 
 The first of those Reformers was Stephen 
 Pnetorius, pastor at Saltzwedel, a man of 
 deep piety, who preached and wrote much 
 in favor of experimental piety. He aimed 
 at a revival of true religion in the Lutheran 
 church. This good man was. of course, 
 persecuted and basely slandered by the 
 orthodox party; but he was firm and con- 
 sisteut. and acquired great influence. He 
 was the friend and companion of John 
 Arndt, and had no little influence upon the 
 mind of the immortal author of the " True 
 Christianity/' 
 
 John Arndt was born in 1555, just nine 
 years after Luther's death. He lost his fa- 
 ther, who was one of the Reformers, in 1565; 
 and, like Luther, he was a charity-scholar 
 at Magdeburg. AVhat we mean by a charity- 
 scholar in those days was this: — children 
 whose parents were not able to support 
 them while at school, were obliged to go 
 round the town, from house to house, and 
 sing at the people's doors. The kind peo- 
 ple would then give them a piece of bread. 
 This is the way many great men received 
 their education. John Arndt studied at 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 209 
 
 some three or four universities, but chiefly 
 at Strasburg. He was awakened and truly 
 converted to God during a spell of sick- 
 ness. He was a great preacher, and la- 
 bored hard to promote true religion in 
 the church. Few men have done more to 
 promote spiritual religion than he. But 
 he was bitterly persecuted, and very rudely 
 attacked by such men as Osiander, Co- 
 rain, Schelwig, Rostius, and others of the 
 high-church party. They preached against 
 him ; and in their sermons — some of which 
 are still extant — they charged him with 
 being a mystic, an enthusiast, a heretic, 
 and a false prophet. He was a burning 
 and a shining light in the church ; and, 
 though being dead, he yet speaketh, in 
 the " True Christianity," a book as exten- 
 sively read as any uninspired book in the 
 world, and a book that will be read and 
 admired amid the splendors qf the millen- 
 nial glory. 
 
 John Arndt may be looked upon as the 
 second great reformer in the Lutheran 
 church, and as standing at the head of the 
 evangelical party, and opposed to the 
 
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210 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 other party that has always "been more 
 concerned about forms and ceremonies 
 than true piety. 
 
 This good and holy man was the founder 
 of the school of Pietism in the Lutheran 
 church. When Arndt died, the fire that he 
 had kindled did not go out. God raised 
 up other holy men, who carried the good 
 work forward. 
 
 Dr. Philip J. Spener, the successor of 
 Arndt, was born in 1635, and was one of 
 the most pious and eloquent preachers 
 that ever lived. By a single sermon this 
 devoted and powerful preacher produced 
 the most intense excitement throughout 
 the whole city of Frankfort. He was the 
 great revival preacher of his age. Many sin- 
 ners became awakened under his preaching, 
 and, like revival preachers of the present 
 day, he found it necessary to employ other 
 means than merely standing at arm's-length 
 from the sinner. Hence, he instituted his 
 pious conferences, which he called " Colle- 
 gia Pieiatis" out of which our " anxious- 
 
 * A full and very interesting Life of Arndt, by Rev. Dr. 
 Morris, of Baltimore, has been recently published (in English) 
 by the publisher of this work. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 211 
 
 meetings" have very naturally grown. 
 For this he was persecuted and branded 
 as a heretic, a Quaker, and a Pietist. 
 
 Dr. Spener was deeply interested for 
 young people. He was much in favor of 
 catechizing, but was opposed to the abuse 
 of the system of the catechism. And, to 
 correct the evils often connected with the 
 catechism, he published a series of sermons 
 on the Lutheran Catechism. 
 
 Spener was the instrument, in the hands 
 of God, of influencing the Elector of Bran- 
 denburg to found the University of Halle. 
 This was in 1690. The founding of this 
 university forms a new era in the history 
 of true piety. 
 
 The successor of Spener w r as Hermann 
 Augustus Franke, who was born in 1663. 
 In 1692, Franke, at Spener's request, was 
 appointed professor at Halle. The results 
 of his labors there are well known through- 
 out the whole Christian world; his faith, 
 his prayers and labors can never be for- 
 gotten. 
 
 Franke was a man deeply experienced in 
 religion. When he commenced preaching 
 
212 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 he was not converted. He gives us an ac- 
 count of his conversion, which is quite 
 interesting, showing us that converted 
 people then felt as they do now. 
 
 Franke, like thousands of his contem- 
 poraries, had assumed the ministerial office 
 without conversion ; hut, like the great 
 Origen, it pleased God to make the sermon 
 he had intended for others, the instrument 
 of his own conversion. Here is his own 
 account: — 
 
 "While I was preparing a sermon on 
 John xx. 31, * That believing ye might have 
 life through his name,' — while meditating 
 on these words, the thought occurred to me 
 that I myself had no faith in Christ. It 
 was in vain I endeavored to resist the 
 strong conviction that fastened on my 
 mind. In the deepest agony of mind I 
 knelt down and prayed that God would 
 have compassion on my soul. But no an- 
 swer of mercy came. In this agonized 
 state of mind, I resolved that unless a 
 change occurred I would not preach, for I 
 could not think of preaching against my 
 own conscience. I felt then what it was to 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 213 
 
 have no God. In deep distress of mind, I 
 knelt down again and called upon the God 
 and Savior whom I knew not, and believed 
 not in, for deliverance from this miserable 
 condition. The Lord heard my prayer and 
 answered it instantly. All my doubts were 
 at once removed. I was assured in my 
 heart of the grace of God in Christ; all 
 sorrow at once departed, and I was inun- 
 dated as with a flood of joy! I now felt as 
 if through my whole life I had been in a 
 profound sleep and had performed all my 
 actions in a dream." 
 
 From that hour Franke dated his con- 
 version. More than forty years afterward — 
 in the garden of the orphan-house at Halle, 
 where he offered his last prayer — he ac- 
 knowledged that God had opened a foun- 
 tain in his heart at the hour of his conver- 
 sion, from which streams of joy and comfort 
 had flowed ever since. This man, with his 
 renewed heart, accomplished, single-handed 
 and alone, what no other human being did: 
 — he sent, during his lifetime, more than 
 Bix thousand ministers into the church, and 
 
KEG IX a: or. 
 
 some of them to the ends of the earth as 
 missionaries. 
 
 Franke seems to have been raised up by 
 Providence to carry forward the work com- 
 menced by Arndt and Bpener. 
 
 It is a delightful task to trace the mighty 
 working of divine grace in such a heart as 
 Franke* s : — to see that grace, like a pent- 
 up fountain in the mountain-side, bursting 
 its embankments and scooping out new 
 channels of benevolence! AVith a moral 
 heroism truly sublime, he plunged into un- 
 known regions of benevolence, and ex- 
 plored continents of charity of whose ex- 
 istence other Christians had scarcely ever 
 dreamed. 
 
 Franke. in compliance with the wishes 
 of his great and good friend. Bpener. never 
 lost sight of the great object for which he 
 was placed at Halle. Hence he labored 
 and prayed to bring the Lutheran church 
 into a better state. The American Lu- 
 theran church (so called by the fathers them- 
 selves in the Synod of 17So- is an offshoot 
 from Halle. Those godly men who planted 
 the Lutheran church in America were near- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 215 
 
 ly all educated at Halle, and brought the 
 same spirit that prevailed there over to 
 this country: — Muhlenberg, Ileinzelman, 
 Handshuh, Yoight, Schmidt, Kunze, Nicho- 
 las and William Kurtz, Helmuth, Schultze, 
 Rouss, and others. 
 
 These were all pious, practical, and ener- 
 getic Christians, — men who had themselves 
 experienced true religion, as the hymn- 
 books and liturgies they prepared for our 
 infant church in this country fully show. 
 Their liturgy of 1785 has more holy unc- 
 tion than any once since prepared, and 
 their hymn-book has more of the spirit of 
 living piety than those of a later date. 
 And, indeed, all their writings that have 
 come down to us show that they were pious 
 and holy men. There was little of the 
 churchly element in th^ir theology. In 
 their day the fountains of learning in Ger- 
 many had not yet been poisoned by modern 
 Rationalism. Faith in Christ was of more 
 importance to them than creed and con- 
 fessions. The American Lutheran church 
 has been true to the principles of her 
 fathers; and, if it were not for a foreign 
 
regixa : or, 
 
 element more recently imported among us, 
 there would be no controversy in our 
 church at present. Here, now. after the 
 lapse of more than one hundred years, the 
 Lutheran church still remains the freest 
 and the purest in the world. The noble 
 school at Halle — the great bulwark of pure 
 Lutheranism — was swamped in the union 
 of 1817. 
 
 It was one of those wise vet mysterious 
 movements of Providence, that the good 
 seed of evangelical piety sown at Halle 
 should be transplanted to this "Western 
 world while experimental piety was the 
 reigning element there. Here, in this new 
 world, God seems to have housed his 
 church from the storms and tempests which 
 swept with such terrific force over the 
 fatherland. Here the Lutheran church 
 was to commence a new career. Unlike 
 the church in Europe, she was here to be 
 free and unshackled, as she had been in 
 the beginning. Here a high and noble 
 destiny awaited her. 
 
 This church has already, under many dis- 
 advantages, worked out mighty results, and 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 217 
 
 she is destined to perform yet higher and 
 nobler deeds. God is in our midst ; and, if 
 we are true to her interests and cling to the 
 cross, the light from the altar-fires of our 
 American Lutheran church will be reflected 
 back to the land of her birth and rekindle 
 the flames of a living piety upon the frozen 
 heart of her lifeless formalism. 
 
 Disguise it as we will, the Lutheran church 
 in Germany has been untrue to her mis- 
 sion. She has mistaken the dim rushlight 
 of human reason for the glorious gospel of 
 Jesus Christ. She has wickedly set aside 
 God's holy Sabbaths, and set her face 
 against God's revivals, and thrust aside 
 God's Bible. Confessional religion she has 
 enough of — she has creeds and confes- 
 sions enough — she has orthodoxy enough ; 
 but her living piety is too small — too 
 feeble. 
 
 After these remarks — which do not 
 properly belong to our narrative of Re- 
 gina's life — the reader will be prepared 
 for what follows in the experience of 
 Regina. 
 
 While attending a course of lectures un- 
 
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218 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 der the Rev. J. N. Kurtz, she and nearly 
 all the young people. who attended with 
 her became deeply interested In the salva- 
 tion of their souls. The pastor was true to 
 his charge, and, by prayer and exhortation, 
 he continued to pour the light and truth of 
 the gospel into their minds. He found this 
 an excellent opportunity for doing good. 
 He addressed the children personally and 
 directly. 
 
 One day, just before confirmation, Re- 
 gina came home much depressed in mind, 
 — so much so that the fond eye of her mo- 
 ther noticed that something was wrong 
 with her. 
 
 "What is the matter, my child?" said 
 the mother. 
 
 "Oh!" said Regina, unable to suppress 
 the rising emotion of her troubled heart, 
 "I do not know; but I feel so bad. I 
 have been such a great sinner. And the 
 minister to-day explained from the Cate- 
 chism the nature of conversion ; and, 
 among other things, he said we must all 
 be converted or be lost. Then we all 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 219 
 
 sang that beautiful hymn out of the Cate- 
 chism, — 
 
 " ' Steh arme8 kind wo eilst du hin, 
 Erkenne dein verderben.' " 
 
 Here she hurst out in an uncontrollable fit 
 of weeping. Her heart was almost broken, 
 and she could say no more. 
 
 Her mother, who had once been an 
 awakened sinner, knew at once what was 
 the matter. The Spirit of God had touched 
 her heart, and the waters of repentance 
 were flowing from her eyes. The pious 
 mother thanked God, and directed her as 
 well as she could to the Savior. Kegina 
 prayed much that night and the few days 
 that intervened before her confirmation ; 
 but she found no peace. 
 
 On Saturday, early in the morning, she 
 and her mother started before day to travel 
 about twenty miles ; for they had to go that 
 distance to church. Regina was deeply dis- 
 tressed when they came to the good old 
 pastor.'s house. He lived near the place 
 where the Tulpehocken church stands; it 
 was then a log church. The pastor re- 
 
220 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 ceived them very kindly, and soon inquired 
 into Regina's spiritual state, and found her 
 to be deeply penitent. He was, of course, 
 glad to see this, and talked very affection- 
 ately with her, and directed her to the 
 Lamb of God, who beareth the sins of the 
 world. He told her she must give her 
 heart to the Lord Jesus. 
 
 The other children now all gathered at 
 the house of the sexton, who lived in the 
 woods; and there the girls all put on their 
 pretty white caps, and, being all dressed in 
 white, made a fine appearance. This used 
 to be the custom in our church ; it was a 
 useless, though an innocent, custom. It 
 was, perhaps, originally intended to typify 
 the innocence of the catechumens, and was 
 handed down, some suppose, from the days 
 of the apostles. 
 
 Webster says, — " Whitsuntide — the feast 
 of Pentecost — is derived from white, Sun- 
 day, and tide, and is so called because, in 
 the primitive church, those who were 
 newly baptized, or the catechumens, ap- 
 peared at church in white garments." 
 The word tide means a season. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 221 
 
 Well, the girls — some eighteen or twenty 
 in number — put on their nice white caps, 
 and assembled in the school-house, where 
 the pastor met them, and, after singing 
 and prayer, they were examined before the 
 church council. They were all deeply 
 affected. From the school-house they 
 marched in procession to the church, where 
 a large congregation was assembled. The 
 pastor then preached an excellent sermon 
 from Isaiah lxi. 8: — "And I will make an 
 everlasting covenant with them." He 
 preached faithfully and powerfully, and 
 deep were the impressions made upon the 
 hearts of all. The young people were so 
 much excited that you could hear them 
 weeping and sobbing all over the house; 
 and many a sturdy sinner, who was re- 
 minded of bygone days, was affected to 
 tears. 
 
 The children were then called to the 
 altar, where they took upon themselves the 
 vows their parents had made for them in 
 baptism. They then knelt down, and the 
 man of God laid his hands on them and 
 offered up a short prayer. This is confirma- 
 19* 
 
222 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 tion. But he took care to exhort them to 
 give themselves away to the Lord in an 
 everlasting covenant. Eegina did this, and 
 found peace in believing in Christ her 
 Savior. She felt that the burden of sin 
 was removed and she had found her 
 Savior. Oh, how happy she was! Jesus 
 was now precious to her heart; and she 
 could now sing that beautiful German 
 hymn,— 
 
 "Ich habe nun den Grund gefunden." 
 
 This is one of the most spiritual hymns 
 in any language ; and we will here furnish 
 you with Mr. Mills's translation of it into 
 English. It was composed by Rothe. 
 
 " I now have found, for hope of heav'n, 
 An anchor-ground that firm will hold; 
 One — through the cross of Jesus giv'n, 
 
 By God predestin'd from of old; 
 A ground that shall enduring stay 
 When earth and skies have pass'd away. 
 
 <( 'Tis mercy, — mercy never-ending, 
 
 Whose measure all our thoughts excels; 
 The arms of pity wide-extending, 
 
 Of Him whose heart for sinners feels, 
 And whose compassion warns his foes 
 To fly from sin and endless woes. 
 
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 " Of all beside were I forsak'n 
 
 That could my soul or body cheer ; 
 If ev'ry joy of earth were tak'n, 
 
 And not a friend were left me here, — 
 One joy remains — the brightest, best, — ■ 
 With pard'ning love I still am blest. 
 
 u Upon this ground I will sustain me 
 As long as earth my dwelling prove; 
 
 To serve my God and Savior train me, 
 Till, dying, I shall rise above ; — 
 
 And there, rejoicing, will adore 
 
 Unbounded mercy evermore!" 
 
 This does not give the full unction of the 
 original ; but it is the best we have. 
 
 Kegina and her mother did not go home 
 that day. One of the elders of the church 
 invited them to his house, where they re- 
 mained, for the purpose of attending the 
 communion on the following Sabbath. 
 They had a refreshing time of it. God 
 was in their midst; and they went on their 
 way rejoicing. 
 
 On their way home Regina told her mo- 
 ther what the Lord had done for her soul. 
 They were both happy: the mother rejoiced 
 in the conversion of her daughter, and the 
 daughter rejoiced in her new spiritual life. 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 Oh, now pleasantly their days and hours 
 moved along ! 
 
 Regina applied her mind to improvement 
 and made rapid progress. She often looked 
 back upon her past life, and thanked God 
 for having led her by a way that she knew 
 not. The Lord had meant it all for her 
 , good. She was now, after all her suffer- 
 ings and toils, brought to a knowledge of 
 God. Her father was dead, George and 
 Barbara were no more; but her Savior 
 lived. 
 
 That summer Regina and her mother 
 made a visit to Philadelphia, where they 
 had an interview with Dr. Henry M. Muh- 
 lenberg, — from whom Regina received a 
 Bible and hymn-book, which she kept till 
 the day of her death. It was during this 
 visit that Dr. Muhlenberg received from 
 Regina's own lips the account which he 
 has given us of her thrilling history, and 
 of which this is an enlargement. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 225 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 THE WIDOW'S HOME MADE HAPPY. 
 
 CHRISTIAN AND SUSAN — THEIR CONVERSION— CONNECTION 
 "WITH THE CHURCH—COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE. 
 
 After Regina's conversion she became 
 very active in discharging all her known 
 duties. Prayer was her pleasure and de- 
 light. She often retired to converse in 
 secret with her Savior. She knew that 
 Christians must be "the salt of the earth" 
 and "the light of the world," and that they 
 were not to " hide their light under a 
 bushel." Her sphere of usefulness, it is 
 true, w T as limited. There were few neigh- 
 bors, and but few strangers ever came to 
 that obscure and remote corner where she 
 lived ; but there was Christian, her brother, 
 now fast approaching manhood, and Susan, 
 who was bound to her heart by a thousand 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 ties. Though both well trained in their 
 moral feelings, yet they lacked the one thing 
 needful; for Regina never was taught by 
 her Bible or her pastor that baptism was 
 regeneration. She, therefore, frequently 
 talked with them about their souls' salva- 
 tion. They soon saw what they were by 
 nature. And it was agreed that Regina 
 should teach Christian and Susan the cate- 
 chism; and that next Easter they should 
 also attend a course of lectures at the Tul- 
 pehocken church, — which they did, and 
 both were brought to a saving knowledge 
 of the truth. 
 
 Time passed on; we have not space to 
 record all the many incidents that occur- 
 red in the Hartman family. Suffice it to 
 say, that the widow's heart was made glad 
 by the piety and obedience of her children. 
 Her husband and George and Barbara were 
 in heaven, as she really believed, and her- 
 self and Regina and Christian were on the 
 way to that happy, happy home. 
 
 Several years rolled by without pro- 
 ducing any more than the ordinary 
 changes. Christian was now a man. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 227 
 
 Tie was past twenty-one years old ; and 
 Susan, as near as they could come at 
 her age, was about nineteen. She was not 
 tall, but thickly-set and closely-knit, with 
 dark raven hair and piercing black 
 eyes. She had, by carefully protecting 
 her face from the sun, lost much of her 
 Indian color. She was cheerful and lively, 
 and very even-tempered, and rather shy. 
 It was not much to be wondered at that 
 Christian should form an attachment for 
 her. They were often together, and, before 
 they knew it, they loved each other. It is 
 true they tried to hide it from Regina and 
 her mother; but Mrs. Hartman had pene- 
 tration enough to see it. They had no oc- 
 casion to be ashamed of loving each other. 
 There was no impropriety in doing what 
 all have done from the beginning and will 
 do to the end of time. Men and women 
 were made to love each other. But, some- 
 how or other, these modest and pious young 
 people thought nobody ought to know that 
 they loved each other ! 
 
 One day, Mrs. Hartman said to Regina, 
 when they were alone, — ■ 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 "Well, I suppose Christian and Susan 
 love each other, and they had better get 
 married. Susan is a fine girl, and I love 
 her; and, when I am dead and gone, Chris- 
 tian will take care of her." 
 
 "Yes," replied Regina, "I think so 
 too." 
 
 " Suppose we speak to them about it." 
 "Very well." 
 
 So it was agreed that Mrs. Hartman 
 would talk with Christian, and Regina with 
 Susan. I need not tell you how Christian 
 and Susan both blushed out the full con- 
 firmation of the conjectures of Regina and 
 her mother, and how readily they con- 
 sented to the arrangements thus proposed. 
 Christian and Susan loved each other with 
 a pure and holy love. Their hearts had 
 long since been melted into one heart. 
 
 This proposal was made in the summer; 
 and it was suggested by the mother that 
 the wedding should come off in the fall, as 
 soon as the seeding was over. I need not 
 tell you how pleasantly they spent the 
 interval. Nor need I inform you how, 
 when Mrs. Hartman told Susan to blow 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 229 
 
 the dinner-horn for Christian, she could 
 not find it, and would prefer running out 
 to the field and calling him ! Eor how 
 Christian would do every thing he could 
 to lighten Susan's labors : how he would 
 chop the wood very fine and carry it 
 into the kitchen, and how he would go to 
 the spring for water, and how he would 
 stand by when she was milking in the 
 evening and carry the milk-pail to the 
 spring-house. These things were all natu- 
 ral. Their love seemed to increase from 
 day to day. 
 
 At length the time approached that they 
 were to be married. They went over the 
 mountains, and were married at the old 
 stone parsonage. There was no great 
 parade made at their nuptials. To-be- 
 sure, when they came home next day, some 
 of the neighbors had gathered to con- 
 gratulate them, and to eat a roasted turkey 
 and other good things. 
 
 Christian now took charge of the farm, 
 and Regina and her mother had their 
 home with him. Susan was now in reality 
 the mistress of the house; but she re- 
 20 
 
230 
 
 REG IN A ; OR, 
 
 mained the same humble and affectionate 
 child. She assumed no authority; took no 
 airs upon herself; worked just as she had 
 all along been doing. And Christian, too, 
 was the same. There was no contract 
 made between him and his mother. When 
 he sold a cow, or grain, or any thing else, 
 the money was put in his mother's chest, 
 where all had access to it. A neighbor 
 once suggested that, as Christian was now 
 of age and married, it would be right and 
 proper for him to purchase the farm; but 
 neither he nor his mother could see the 
 necessity of such a measure. They could 
 all live together in peace ; and, as Christian 
 used to say, "As long as I have bread you 
 will all have it." Begina, too, had confi- 
 dence in her brother, and knew he would 
 do right. So, then, the property' remained 
 as it had been since the death of Mr, 
 Hartman, except that Christian — by the ad- 
 vice of a lawyer in Heading — had the land 
 patented. 
 
 Years rolled pleasantly along, and chil- 
 dren were born in the Hartman family, 
 both boys and girls. The oldest was a girl, 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 231 
 
 and was called Regina, who was her god- 
 moiner; and the next was a little black- 
 headed boy, who was called John, after his 
 grandfather. I need not tell you how 
 deeply Regina and her mother were in- 
 terested in those children. They were all 
 so kind and attentive to the children that 
 the poor little things scarcely knew which 
 was their right mother. Little Regina 
 used to call Susan her little mother, Mrs. 
 Hartman her old mother, and Regina her 
 big mother ! These children were the light 
 and joy of the house; yes, the sunshine of 
 heaven seems to come down through little 
 children in the habitations of men. They 
 seem to be flowers of paradise, plucked by 
 angels' hands, and planted on earth to 
 make us happy. 
 
 Regina commenced teaching them as 
 soon as they could be taught, and they be- 
 came good and obedient children. God 
 dwelt in this pious family. 
 
 Age began to make his mark on Mrs. 
 Hartman. She was now past threescore 
 years, and her vigorous constitution com- 
 menced giving way to the weight of years 
 
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 KEG IN A ; OR, 
 
 and hardships through which she had 
 passed. 
 
 Regina, too, was now pretty well up in 
 thirty, and had given up all idea of ever 
 marrying. She often told her mother she 
 would never get married, but would stay 
 with her and take care of her in her old 
 days. Nothing could induce her to change 
 her mind in this respect. She had a plea- 
 sant and a happy home, and her heart was 
 so much occupied in religious matters, and 
 with Susan's children and her aged mother, 
 that she thought of little else. Never was 
 there a more dutiful daughter, as the sequel 
 will fully show. 
 
 Regina and her mother often went to 
 church; and, as Mrs. Hartman was he- 
 coming feeble, she rode, and Regina 
 walked. And often they would remain 
 over night with some of the church mem- 
 bers in the neighborhood of the church, 
 and sometimes with the pastor — the Rev. 
 Emanuel Schultz, who was then the Lu- 
 theran preacher at Tulpehocken. He also 
 was a good and holy man. He died in 
 1812, I think; and the Rev. Dr. Lochman 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 233 
 
 (then of Lebanon) preached his funeral 
 sermon. 
 
 Christian prospered in worldly matters 
 and lived a cheerful and happy life. He 
 had been a good boy, and he became a 
 good man, as is generally the case. Good 
 boys and good girls make good men and 
 good women, for the same reason that 
 good seed will always produce good fruit. 
 Youth is the time to lay the foundation to 
 be good in mature years. Permit me here 
 to offer a few reasons why you should be- 
 come pious in your youth. 
 
 In your youth your hearts are more open 
 to conviction. You are not hardened in 
 sin. Nearly all the heathen that become 
 converted by the labors of the missionaries 
 are awakened in their youth and in the 
 Sabbath-schools. Sin is like a fearful dis- 
 ease : the longer it is permitted to run the 
 worse it is. 
 
 We send children — not old people — to 
 school, because youth is the time to learn. 
 Few ever learn to read who do not learn it 
 before they are twenty years old. When 
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 REG IX A J OR, 
 
 men and women get old they generally 
 practise what they learned in their youth. 
 
 Most persons that are pious became so in 
 their youth ; and the great majority of 
 those who neglect religion in their youth 
 go to the grave and to the bar of God in 
 an impenitent state. ^Vhat an awful 
 thought] How this should alarm the 
 young who neglect their souls ! 
 
 Youth is the spring-time of life; and the 
 improvement of this precious season will 
 determine the glory of summer, the abun- 
 dance of autumn, and the supply for the 
 cold and chilling winter. Youth is the 
 morning of life; and if the sun does not 
 rise before noon it rarely ever rises at all. 
 
 '•Remember, then, your Creator in the 
 days of your youth, before the evil days 
 come,*' — as come they surely will, — and 
 without piety you will have no pleasure in 
 them. 
 
 Look at the case of Regina. With not 
 half the advantages and light which you 
 possess, she was firm and steadfast even 
 among the savage Indians, where the very 
 name of God was not known, and where 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 235 
 
 every temptation was thrown in her way, 
 and where she had none to take her by the 
 hand and encourage her; yet she continued 
 to follow the little light she had: — she said 
 her prayers under the trees, and at last she 
 was brought to the Savior and made happy 
 in him. 
 
 Recollect, she had no pious Sabbath- 
 school teacher, as you have; and no good 
 little books, such as you have. The chil- 
 dren of our Sabbath-schools have great rea- 
 son to thank G-od for all the blessings they 
 enjoy; and they ought to make good use 
 of their time, and not let their great advan- 
 tages sink them deeper into ruin in the 
 world of hopeless sorrow and despair. 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 REGINA AND HER MOTHER. 
 
 PIETY OF MBS. HARTMAN HER SICKNESS — REGINA's 
 
 CEASELESS ATTENTION TO HER AFFLICTED MOTHER — HER 
 HAPPINESS IN PROSPECT OF HEAVEN HER HAPPY DEATH. 
 
 Regina was happy and contented with 
 ner lot. God was always in her thoughts ; 
 and, as she had been fortunate enough to 
 procure a copy of Arndt's "True Chris- 
 tianity" and "Paradise Garden," she had 
 something to occupy her time. Some- 
 times, too, she would make little In- 
 dian baskets, and other things she had 
 learned among the Indians, for the chil- 
 dren. She made rapid progress in the 
 divine life, although she often deplored 
 her proneness to sin and her apathy to- 
 ward heavenly things. Yet she loved her 
 Savior with a sincere heart and pure affec- 
 tion. He was her all. She had learned to 
 know him by a happy experience, and he 
 was " the fairest among ten thousand" to 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 237 
 
 her. Arndt's " True Christianity" was a 
 great help to her. She had formed her reli- 
 gious views from the Bihle and Arndt, and 
 had, of course, a good system. This is one 
 of the best systems of biblical and practical 
 theology in the world ; and any person who 
 reads it must become pious and holy. Re- 
 gina was much in the habit of reading this 
 excellent book; and, as her mother's eye- 
 sight had failed, she read aloud every day, 
 so that all could hear it, both from the Bible 
 and Arndt's book. Regina was particularly 
 fond of the twentieth chapter of the first 
 book of the " True Christianity," which 
 she had read over so often that she knew 
 it by heart. And, as it did her so much 
 good, perhaps it may be of some service to 
 the reader; we will, therefore, furnish a 
 translation of this beautiful chapter. It is 
 based upon a passage in Heb. xiii. 14 : — 
 " For here we have no continuing city, but 
 we seek one to come." 
 
 "All the temporal blessings which God 
 has provided for us are given for the sup- 
 port of our earthly existence. They should 
 only be applied for this purpose. We 
 
238 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 should receive every thing from God with 
 contentment and gratitude. We should al- 
 ways endeavor to use all the gifts of God 
 with a view of promoting the objects for 
 which they are given. If a man abounds 
 in wealth, it is given him as a trial, to see 
 how he would employ it, — whether he 
 w r ould remain submissive to God, love 
 and esteem him above all things, or wheth- 
 er he would withdraw his heart from 
 God, yield to the world and its lusts, and 
 thus barter his eternal salvation for the 
 transitory things of this life ! God, who, 
 consistently with his wisdom and holiness, 
 never compels man to do good, — for that 
 only is true godliness and virtue which is 
 performed with delight and a willing mind, 
 — has, on this account, left it optional with 
 man what course to take; while, through 
 the medium of riches, talents, and honors, 
 he proves him, to see how he would be 
 disposed toward God: — whether he would 
 thereby suffer himself to be separated from 
 God, or remain faithful to him. So then 
 he can be judged according to his own 
 choice, — according to Moses : Deut. xxx. 19. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 239 
 
 "Dear Christian, ever bear in mind that 
 the objects of this world are not designed 
 to be your chief good, but that God has 
 conferred them upon you that you should 
 enjoy them in a proper way. You are 
 placed over them as a steward, in order to 
 show that you have been faithful in small 
 things, so that ultimately God may place 
 you over greater things in heaven. Many, 
 alas ! neglect this. They seek their great- 
 est pleasure and gratification in sensual 
 indulgence: — in eating and drinking, in 
 costly attire, in splendor and glory, in an 
 effeminate manner of living, and in other 
 earthly enjoyments. By these things they 
 neglect God and lose heaven, to prepare for 
 whose enjoyment they were created and 
 placed in this world. Guard against such 
 a delusion. Keep constantly before your 
 eyes the grand object of your creation. 
 Let this sentiment ever be impressed upon 
 your mind : — 6 We are but sojourners and pil- 
 grims and candidates for heaven ; hence, we 
 will act accordingly. We will use tem- 
 poral things for our support, to supply our 
 wants and properly to sustain our bodies; 
 
240 
 
 regina; or, 
 
 and the pleasant things which may fall to 
 our lot in this pilgrim- world — the posses- 
 sion of which is uncertain, as their enjoy- 
 ment is transient — shall not so much en- 
 gage our attention as to cause us to lose our 
 better inheritance in heaven, which is to en- 
 dure forever. We will enjoy them with a 
 constant remembrance of God, endeavoring 
 always to preserve a pure and holy heart, 
 and never so ardently seek, wish for, or use 
 the world as though we regarded it as our 
 chief good ; but heaven shall remain our 
 greatest delight and treasure, and nothing 
 in this world shall give us so much jo}^ and 
 be so highly esteemed.' Endeavor always 
 to cherish such a frame of mind, for this is 
 the evidence of being a true Christian. 
 
 " While we are pilgrims and strangers on 
 earth, why should men, for the sake of 
 earthly things which all perish in their using, 
 expose themselves to the wrath of God? 
 
 " For what would it profit a man, though ho 
 enjoyed the greatest pleasures and the most 
 abundant riches and were held in the highest 
 esteem, if he had no hope of heaven ? 
 
 " He w T ho would be better advised, and 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 241 
 
 lay up treasures in heaven which time can- 
 not destroy nor death take from him, should 
 always remember that there is auother and 
 a better world, and he should lay up trea- 
 sures there. He who does not do this lives 
 in folly and blindness. He lives like an 
 irrational creature, and, as such, he will 
 perish forever. Ps. xlix. 20. 
 
 " Such a one might rejoice in God his 
 Savior. He might be sustained by the 
 blessed comforts of religion and attain to 
 the unspeakable happiness of heaven ; yea, 
 he might participate in those blessed luxu- 
 ries of true godliness, which are far supe- 
 rior to all the joys of the mere worldling; 
 but he rejoices in sin and worldliness and 
 seeks only its transitory joys! "This is a 
 low and degraded state of mind. He was 
 indeed created for a blessed immortality, 
 but, like a beast, he desires to live at ease 
 only to the hour of his death. Such are 
 poor, deluded, miserable men, that sit, as 
 the prophet truly says, ' in the valley and 
 shadow of death.' 
 
 "It should occasion the Christian no re- 
 gret that he is a stranger and a pilgrim in 
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kbgixa: or. 
 
 this fleeting world; but this tact should 
 teach him that he was created for a higher 
 and a nobler state of existence beyond the 
 grave. Hence, true Christians do not look 
 a: this world as their home, but they look 
 forward to one far more glorious and 
 blessed, for which they would give two 
 worlds like the present; yea, they would 
 offer up their lives and all they had for the 
 sake of that better world ! 
 
 "The true Christian inwardly rejoices. 
 He daily blesses God for the hope of hea- 
 ven, and is deeply concerned that he may 
 become rich in good works, and thus be- 
 come more and better prepared for the en- 
 joyment of that inheritance tor which God 
 created and Jesus Christ redeemed him." 
 
 This was the teaching that made Regina 
 strong in the Lord. She looked upon this 
 world only as a means of attaining a higher 
 and more blessed state of being. 
 
 In :he of the vv;>:. Mrs. Hartinan 
 was taken ill. Her sickness was severe 
 from the beginning; and being old, and 
 having endured many hardships, she her- 
 self said it would be unto death. She 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 243 
 
 helped herself as long as she could ; hut 
 at length her strength failed her, and Re- 
 gina watched over her with the tendcrest 
 care. She prayed with her, and sang those 
 cheering German hymns that have smoothed 
 the passage to the grave for millions. 
 
 Mrs. Hartman had very clear and en- 
 larged views of Christ and his work of re- 
 demption. She had served him from her 
 youth, and, as she used to say, "lie will 
 not now forsake me in mine old age." 
 She spent much of her time in prayer; and 
 Regina had to read to her those cheering 
 and refreshing prayers in Starcke's Prayer- 
 Book, prepared for the dying. Oh, how 
 happy true religion can make Christians in 
 a dying hour ! 
 
 How true it is that 
 
 " Jesus can make a dying bed 
 
 Feel soft as downy pillows are; 
 While on his heart I lean my head 
 
 And breathe my soul out sweetly there !" 
 
 All this Mrs. Hartman and every other 
 child of God experienced. Regina had 
 many an excellent conversation with her 
 mother about the things of God ; and the 
 
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 regina; or, 
 
 heroic conduct of her mother strengthened 
 her own soul, and often made her wish that 
 her time to die would also soon come. 
 
 This fall Mrs. Hartman could not at- 
 tend communion at the church. And yet 
 she had a sincere desire once more to eat 
 and drink " the body and blood" of her 
 Savior. She, therefore, requested Chris- 
 tian to go across the mountains and bring 
 the Rev. Emanuel Schultz (then pastor of 
 the Lutheran church at Tulpehocken) over. 
 Mr. Schultz came; and Regina joined her 
 mother in the communion. Mr. Schultz 
 had a great deal of conversation with Mrs. 
 Hartman and Regina, and was amazed at 
 the clear and intelligent views they had of 
 religion. He used to say, " that among the 
 mountains, in small cabins, he believed 
 there was more true piety than in the 
 splendid mansions of the wealthy." 
 
 He used to say of this visit, that " he 
 was as much benefited as the poor dying 
 w T idow. It does a pious minister good to 
 see a saint on the borders of the promised 
 land, and to hear the soul's testimony to 
 the truth of the doctrines he has beeu 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 245 
 
 teaching." They had a solemn and a 
 blessed time ; it was good to be there. 
 
 "When the good pastor was gone, Mrs. 
 Hartman said to Regina, " Now, my dear 
 daughter, I am prepared to depart in peace. 
 I desire to be absent from the body and to 
 be present with the Lord. I have given up 
 all; and I am now ready to depart." 
 
 Regina wept. How could she part with 
 her mother? — that dear, affectionate mo- 
 ther, who had done so much for her. Yet 
 she knew it was her duty to submit. 
 She made up her mind, therefore, to sub- 
 mit to the will of her heavenly Father. 
 
 Soon after, Mrs. Hartman began to sink. 
 Her strength w r as gone, and she felt that 
 death was coming on rapidly. But as she 
 approached the dark waters of the Jordan 
 of death, her faith became stronger and her 
 hope brighter. Her religion sustained her 
 in every trial and did not forsake her in a 
 dying hour. 
 
 Before she became insensible, she had all 
 the family called around her dying bed, 
 and exhorted them to love and serve God 
 and to promise to meet her in heaven. It 
 
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REG ix a: or. 
 
 was solemn and affecting to hoar her ex- 
 hortations. The whole family was deeply 
 affected, and many tears wore shed. God 
 was there. The impressions then made 
 upon the hearts of all present were not 
 soon forgotten ! There was deep silence in 
 the humble cottage. Mrs. Ilartman was 
 dying: but her faith was strong in the 
 Lord, and the grim monster, death, was 
 changed into a messenger of peace. Mrs. 
 Ilartman had thought so much of death, 
 and lived in such a state of preparation 
 for this solemn event, that she felt calm 
 and resigned. Like Arndt. from whose 
 writings she had learned so much, she 
 made many preparations of which most per- 
 sous never think. 
 
 I: is said that Arndt preached his own 
 funeral sermon from Ps. exxvi. 5. 6 : — 
 
 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 
 lie that goeth forth and weepeth. bearing 
 precious seed, shall doubtless come again 
 with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with 
 him." This sermon was preached at Zell, 
 on the 30th of May. 16-1. Wlien he came 
 out of the church, he remarked to his ex- 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 247 
 
 cellent wife, " I have now preached my 
 own funeral sermon." It was so; for, soon 
 after he took sick and died. 
 
 Mrs. Hartman selected her own funeral 
 text ; also the clothes she wished to be bu- 
 ried in; gave directions about her funeral, 
 and then committed her soul into the hands 
 of her merciful Savior. To die was to her 
 the most pleasant part of her life. God her 
 Savior was with her, and, while others were 
 weeping, she alone was calm and happy. 
 
 God, in his mercy, made her passage to 
 the grave light and easy. She died with- 
 out a struggle or a groan. So calm and 
 tranquil was her end, that those who stood 
 around her dying bed did not know for 
 some time that her pure, blood-washed 
 spirit had taken its flight to the bosom of 
 her Savior. 
 
 "If this be dying," exclaimed a neighbor- 
 B woman, " then 4 let me die the death of the 
 righteous, and let my last end be like his.' " 
 
 Eegina was deeply affected. She longed 
 for the hour of her own departure. But 
 she did not murmur. God had done it; 
 and she felt it her duty to submit to his 
 
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 regixa; or, 
 
 will. When the funeral was over, the 
 house seemed very gloomy. Even the 
 little children trod softly for some days. 
 Christian and Susan became more earnest 
 in their religion ; and this visitation of 
 God's providence was greatly blessed to the 
 whole family. All laid the death of the 
 beloved mother to heart. She was faithful 
 in life and beloved in death. 
 
 In looking back upon the life of Mrs. 
 Hartman, we find a rare example of piety 
 and good sense, and warm devotion to her 
 family. "We see her, indeed, in humble 
 and lowly circumstances, but true to her 
 duty both as a wife and a mother. It is 
 delightful to trace the workings of the 
 mighty grace of God in such a heart, and 
 to see religion in such a simple form. 
 With little mental culture, and less worldly 
 refinement, we have all the pure and ele- 
 vated piety of the most accomplished Chris- 
 tian. Look at her pure affection and un- 
 dying love for her lost daughter; look, too, 
 at her more than Spartan heroism in trying 
 to recover her lost child! But she is gone; 
 her record is on high. 
 
TRUE PIETY AMONG THE LOWLY. 249 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 REGINA — HER CHARACTER — HER PIETY — HER 
 END. 
 
 Regina felt lonesome for some time after 
 the death of her mother; but her strong 
 confidence in God enabled her to be recon- 
 ciled to her affliction. She remained with 
 her brother Christian, and spent her time 
 in reading and prayer and making herself 
 useful in the family. 
 
 Arndt's "True Christianity" was, next to 
 the Bible, her best companion. She loved 
 to read it, and also to meditate upon what 
 she read. She found it an inexhaustible 
 source of comfort and consolation. 
 
 She went to church as often as she could, 
 w T hich, during the summer, w 7 as once a 
 month; for the pastor (Rev. E. Schultz) 
 only preached once every four w T eeks in Tul- 
 pehocken. 
 
 Regina became quite an intelligent Chris- 
 tian for the opportunities she had. She 
 
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 was much respected by all who knew her; 
 but always — even when she was quire au 
 old woman — was called - the Indian maid." 
 
 She paid great attention to the religious 
 education of Susan's children. She often 
 talked with them of the Savior, and pointed 
 out to them the way of salvation. 
 
 She was habitually grave and serious, 
 but not melancholy and morose. She used 
 to say. She could not see why Christians 
 should not be cheerful and happy."' She 
 had made her peace with God. She was 
 washed in the blood of Christ, and, through 
 him, she had a hope of heaven : aud she 
 knew he was all-powerful and could keep 
 that which was committed into his hands. 
 
 She saw little company, and cared but 
 little about the things of this world, 
 which all perish in their using. There 
 were only a few tamilies that she ever 
 visited. One of them was a house about 
 four miles from where she lived ; and in 
 that house there was a pious old German 
 woman, who was much afflicted. She 
 had spinal disease, and was confined to 
 her bed for many years. Regina used to 
 
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 visit her once a week and converse with 
 her; and she always took Arndt's "True 
 Christianity" along and read a chapter or 
 two for her edification. In this way she did 
 good to all she could. She loved to visit 
 the sick ; it was part of her religion, and it 
 was also good for her own soul. Thus she 
 spent her time, in the service of her God 
 and Savior, until she became old ; and died 
 at a good old age, with strong confidence 
 in the Lord. 
 
 She was buried by the side of her mo- 
 ther; and, though no monument marks 
 the spot where she lies, the angels watch 
 over her sleeping dust. Her record is on 
 high; and her soul dwells with that 
 blessed Savior w T ho loved her and bought 
 her with his own blood, who watched 
 over her when she was among the wild 
 Indians, and who brought her back to her 
 mother, and at last sanctified her with his 
 own precious blood, and fitted her for a seat 
 of glory at his right hand in heaven. 
 
 Thus we see what the grace of God 
 can do. How wonderful are God's ways ! 
 Verily, he " is no respecter of persons," 
 
252 regixa; or, true piety. 
 
 but will hear all those of every nation who 
 will call upon his holy name. 
 
 We are now done with the history of 
 Regina. And we would ask the dear 
 children who read this narrative, to take 
 Regina for a pattern. See how faithful she 
 was. She used her talent well. She had 
 not half the opportunities which many of 
 you have, and yet she found her way to the 
 feet of her Redeemer. See, too, what good 
 use she made of the little knowledge she 
 had of the Lord. She never saw a Sab- 
 bath-school, nor ever had the advantages 
 of a library. Make good use of your 
 time ; learn all you can while you are 
 young, and it will serve you perhaps in old 
 age; or if, like poor Regina, you should 
 meet with misfortunes, you will have a 
 real treasure to fall back upon. The same 
 blessed Savior who followed Regina among 
 the savage Indians, and who watched over 
 her, is also your Savior, and is following 
 you, and watching over you to make you 
 happy. Shall he seek you in vain? Oh, 
 no ; let every one determine that he or she 
 will also seek the Lord. May God bless 
 this little book to your soul's good !