Tschoop: The Converted Indian Chief (author unknown)
February 2018
This little narrative (less than 6,500 words total), published originally in 1842 by the American Sunday-School Union of the Moravian Church, tells the story of how a Mohican Indian chief named Tschoop, the very man who ended up being the inspiration for the title character in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, became a Christian in 1742.
The daring and perseverance of Moravian missionaries at a time when most of New York and Pennsylvania were still dangerous and unsettled (and also in the face of vicious resistance from their fellow Europeans in the New World who considered Moravians “too popish”) is inspiring. And the sincere and emotional words of Tschoop himself, as he describes his love for Jesus Christ, is heartwarming indeed.
The daring and perseverance of Moravian missionaries at a time when most of New York and Pennsylvania were still dangerous and unsettled (and also in the face of vicious resistance from their fellow Europeans in the New World who considered Moravians “too popish”) is inspiring. And the sincere and emotional words of Tschoop himself, as he describes his love for Jesus Christ, is heartwarming indeed.