CHAPTER III. 



NEW SETTLEMENTS. — SABBATH. LEAVE NEW BRUNSWICK. 



■ — NEGRO PROCESSION ALBANY THE GREAT 



WESTERN CANAL. LAKE ERIE. NIAGARA FALLS. 



BROCK'S MONUMENT. MOHAWK INDIANS. — -CAPTAIN 



BRANDT. MOHAWK CHURCH. WESLEYAN MISSION- 

 ARIES. MISSISSAUGA TRIBE. — RIVER CREDIT. INDIAN 



SACRIFICE AND CEREMONIES. 



In visiting some of the remote and new settle- 

 ments, as a minister, the people generally 

 crowded upon me to hear the word of God. 

 There being no churches, and in some places 

 no school-house, as yet erected, where to hold 

 divine worship, I could not scruple to officiate 

 in a barn, and proclaim to them the glad tidings 

 of redemption, purchased through the agonized 

 death of Him, who in the mystery of his humi- 

 liation was born in a stable. That gross fana- 

 ticism should be met with among persons who 

 are destitute of Christian sanctuaries, and who 

 profess principles which they seek not in any 

 way to act upon, cannot be a matter of sur- 

 prise. There are those at home, enjoying the 



