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hundred to one hundred and thirty persons. 

 It is a most gratifying sight to see the Colonists^ 

 in groupes, direct their steps on the Sabbath 

 morning towards the Mission house^ at the 

 ringing of the bell, which is now elevated in 

 a spire that is attached to the building. And it 

 is no small satisfaction to have accomplished 

 the wish so feelingly expressed by a deceased 

 officer of the Company. " I must confess, (he 

 observed) that I am anxious to see the first little 

 Christian church and steeple of wood, slowly 

 rising among the wilds, to hear the sound of the 

 first sabbath bell that has tolled here since the 

 creation." I never witnessed the Establishment 

 but with peculiar feelings of delight, and con- 

 templated it as the dawn of a brighter day in 

 the dark interior of a moral wilderness. The 

 lengthened shadows of the setting sun cast upon 

 the buildings^ as I returned from calling upon 

 some of the Settlers a few evenings ago ; and 

 the consideration that there was now a land- 

 mark of Christianity in this wild waste of 

 heathenism, raised in my mind a pleasing 

 train of thought, with the sanguine hope that 

 this Protestant Establishment might be the 

 means of raising a spiritual temple to the 

 Lord, to whom u the heathen are given as an 



