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draught, he immediately concluded that he was 

 mad, and exclaimed, Let him be shot. It was 

 some time before he could be pacified, which was 

 only affected in a measure by his being assured, 

 that he would see his son recovered from the 

 disorder of his faculties. And when the aged 

 Chief saw him again restored to his right mind, 

 and found him capable of conversing, he mani 

 fested the greatest joy.&quot; 



VII. The first Missionary s vision. 



&quot;Thousands are involved in worse than 

 Egyptian darkness around me, wandering in 

 ignorance and perishing through lack of know 

 ledge. When will this wide waste howling 

 wilderness blossom as the rose, and the desert 

 become as a fruitful field! Generations may 

 first pass away ; and the seed of instruction that is 

 now sown, may lie buried, waiting for the early 

 and the latter rain, yet, the sure word of Pro 

 phecy will ever animate Christian liberality and 

 exertion, in the bright prospect of that glorious 

 period when Christianity shall burst upon the 

 gloomy scene of heathenism, and dispel every 

 cloud of ignorance and superstition, till the very 

 ends oj the earth shall see the salvation cj the Lord. 1 



