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the gospel, and the preaching of Christ: to God only wise, be glory, through Jesus Christ! for ever and ever. Amen.' Within the last eleven inonths, I have baptized seventy-seven persons; and have baptized no grown persons, but such as appeared to have a work of grace in their hearts; I mean such as have had experience, not only of the awakening, but of the renewing and comforting influences of the Divine Spirit. The attempts made to establish a school among them, have succeeded; and a kind Providence has sent them a schoolmaster, of whom I may justly say, I know of no man who is like-minded, who will naturally care for their state.' He has generally about thirty, or thirty-five children in his school, and they learn with a surprising readiness; so that their master tells me, he never had a white school that learned, in general, near so fast. There were not above two in thirty, although some were very small, but what learned all the letters in the alphabet distinctly, within three days after their entrance on the business; and many in that time learned to spell

considerably; and some of them since the beginning of February, (when the school commenced,) have learned so as to be able to read in the Testament without spelling. They are instructed in secret prayer, and most of them practise it night and morning."

Mr. Brainerd continued to labour at Cranberry and in the neighbourhood, until the eleventh of August; when he again set off to visit the Indians on the Susquehanna, accompanied by six of his Christian Indians. While he was on this journey, the appearance of a consumption first showed itself. He, however, continued his journey, and preached at every opportunity; considering all that time as lost, which was not occupied in doing something to promote the cause of his Lord and Master.

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Aug. 20.-Having lain all night in a cold sweat, I coughed much bloody matter this morning; but what gave me encouragement was, I had a sweet hope that I might speedily get a dismission from earth and all its sorrows. I rode this day to one Chambers' on

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the Susquehanna, and there lodged; but was much afflicted in the evening with an ungodly crew, drinking and swearing. Oh what a hell it would be, to be numbered with the ungodly! 21st.-I rode up the river about fifteen miles, and there lodged with a family who appeared to be quite destitute of God: I laboured to discourse with the man about the life of religion, but found him very artful in evading it. Oh what a death it is to some to hear of the things of God! 22d.—I continued my course up the river, and travelled above all the English settlements; at night, lodged with my Indians in the open woods, and slept more comfortably than I should among an ungodly company of white people 27th.-There having been a thick smoke in the house where I lodged, I was this morning distressed with pains in my head and neck. In the morning the smoke was still the same, and a cold easterly storm gathering; I could neither live in-doors or without, any long time together; I was peirced with the rawness of the air abroad, and in the house dis. tressed with the smoke."

Sept. 2.-I rode forward, but no faster than my people went a-foot. I was so faint and feeble, that I was afraid it would kill me to lie out in the open air; and some of our company being parted from us, we had now no axe with us. I had no way but to climb into a pine tree, and with my knife to cut off the branches, and so made a shelter from the dew. I sweat much in the night, so that my linen was almost wringing wet all night; I scarce ever was more weak and weary than this evening. $d, I rode to Delaware town, and found many drinking and drunken: I discoursed with some of the Indians about Christianity, and observed my Interpreter to be much engaged in his work: some few persons appeared to hear with great earnestness. About noon I rode to a small town called Shuwaunoes, about eight miles distant; spent an hour or two there, and returned to Delaware town. Oh, what a dead, barren, unprofitable wretch, did I now see myself to be! My spirits were now low, and my bodily strength so wasted, that I could do nothing at all. At length, being

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much overdone, I lay down on a buffalo skin and slept; but sweat much all night."

Amidst all his weakness and distress, being scarce able to move, Mr. Brainerd still continued, at every opportunity, to preach to the Indians, in the different places he came to from day to day. He was obliged to journey in the heat of the day; he was often drenched with showers, and frequently lay down at night in the most uncomfortable places: and all this time exercised by great sweats at night, and coughing and raising blood continually. Some of the Indians to whom he came, appeared to feel the power of truth, and to be well disposed towards Christianity; but others mocked at him, or treated his attempts to do them good with entire indifference. Leaving some of his companions behind him, sick, he arrived among his people at Cranberry on the twen tieth of September, and says: "I found them praying together, and went in and gave them some account of God's dealings with me and my companions in the journey. I then prayed with them, and the Divine presence

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