17 was celebrated by holding a grand feast. The new comers were visited daily by their neighbors who came to see them putting up buildings, plowing the ground, etc.; but what surprised them most was that so many Indians could live peaceably and happily together and devote themselves to laboring in the fields. Encouraged by the manifestations of friendship on the part of the uncivilized Indians, the missionaries decided to build a chapel at Schoenbrunn. It was built of square timber, thirty six oy forty feet, shingle roofed with cupola and bell. How that bell must have rung out glad tidings to the children of the forest! They laid out their town regularly, with wide streets, and kept out the cattle by good fences, and adopted a code of rules of government which are given here verbatim from Heckewelder’s narrative: 1. We will know of no God. nor worship any other but him who has created us, and redeemed us with his most precious blood. 2. We will rest from all labor on Sundays, and attend the usual meetings on that day for divine service. 3. We will honor father and mother, and support them in age and distress.
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