has endeavord to give me the best intelligence he
could of this matte?. But it seems to be such a myste-
ry of
inipuify, that I cannot well understand it, and do
not know oftentimes what ideas to affix to the terms he
makes use of. So far as I can learn, he himself has
not any clear notions of the thing, now his spirit of di-
vination is gone from him.
“There were some times when this spirit came
upon him in a special manner. Then, he says, hewas
all light, and not only light himself, but it was light
all around him, so that he could see through men, and
knew the thoughts of their hearts. These “depfhs of
Satan” I leave to others to fathom or to dive into as
they please, and do not pretend, for my own part, to
know what ideas to affix to such terms, and cannot well
guess what conception of things these creatures have
at these times when they call themselves all light. But
my interpreter tells me that he heard one of them tell
a certain Indian the secret thoughts of his heart, which
he had never divulged. . . .
“When I have apprehended them afraid of em-
bracing Christianity, lest they should be enchanted and
poisoned, I have endeavored to relieve their minds of
this fear, by asking them, Why their powers did not
enchant and poison me, seeing they had as much reason
to hate me for preaching to them, and desiring them
to become Christians, as they could have to hate them
in case they should actually become such? That they
might have an evidence of the power and goodness of
God engaged for the protection of Christians, I ven-
tured to bid a challenge to all their powers and great
powers to do their worst on me first of all; and thus I
labored to tread down their influence.” – Memories
of
Brainard, pages 348-351
Three months since the New York Sun published
the following account of the experiences of Capt. C. E.
Denny, Indian agent for the Canadian Government
among the Blackfeet Indians. Capt. Denny says : –