CONCLUSION. 



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In sending this volume to the press, I feel 

 that I am discharging a duty which I owe to 

 the natives of the rocks and of the wilderness, 

 whom I have seen in the darkness and misery 

 of heathenism ; and I ardently desire that the 

 Mission already entered upon, may become the 

 means of widely extending the knowledge of 

 Christianity among them. I have no higher 

 wish in life, than to spend and be spent in the 

 service of Christ, for the salvation of the North 

 American Indians. Not my will, however, 

 but His be done, who alone can direct and 

 control all Missions successfully, to the ful- 

 filment of His prophetic word, when " The 

 wilderness shall become a fruitful field," and 

 " the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the 

 rose." 



Since the foregoing sheets were sent to the 

 Printer, very gratifying intelligence has been 

 received of the improved state of the Colony ; 

 and a sanguine hope is entertained that several 

 native Indian children from different nations 



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