Pioneer Journals 1844 109 



had seen on the way, I must tell you, if it please 

 God, another time.&quot; 



&quot;After travelling for upward of a month First im- 

 through an inhospitable wilderness, and casually P re881on8 

 encountering, at intervals, such specimens of the 

 heathen savage as I have described, we came at 

 once, and without any intermediate gradation 

 in the aspect of things, upon the establishment 

 formed upon the low margin of the river, for the 

 same race of people in their Christian state; and 

 there, on the morning of the Lord s own blessed 

 day, we saw them gathering already around 

 bheir pastor, who was before his door; their child- 

 ten collecting in the same manner, with their 

 rooks in their hands, all decently clothed from 

 head to foot: a repose and steadiness in their 

 deportment, at least the seeming indications of a 

 high and controlling influence upon their char 

 acters and hearts. Around were their humble 

 dwellings, with the commencement of farms, and 

 cattle grazing in the meadow; the neat modest 

 Parsonage, or Mission-house with its garden 

 attached to it; and the simple but decent Church, 

 with the School-house as its appendage, forming 

 the leading objects in the picture, and carrying 

 upon the face of them, the promise of blessing. 

 We were amply rewarded for all the toils and 

 exposure of the night. 



&quot;Nor was it an unpleasing or worthless testi- An 

 mony that was rendered by one of our old voya- ed Te8timon y 

 geurs to the actual merits of the Mission, when, 

 addressing this man, he said, There are your 



