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under the ministry of the W e si cyan mission- 

 aries, who visited, as itinerant preachers, the 

 Mohawk Indians. f I have lived/ said he, 'near 

 seventy years, and to me it is a great mystery, 

 that I, who was baptized when I was a child, 

 should live all my days without knowing the 

 comfort of religion in my heart. This I found 

 about five years ago. I used to pray, but it was 

 only here, putting his hand upon his lips, and 

 then raising it to his head, added, all I knew of 

 religion was only there. By and by, Wesleyan 

 preachers come ; very good men. They tell 

 me of Jesus Christ, then me feel here, laying 

 his hand upon his heart. Now, my spirit very 

 happy. Jesus Christ died to take away sin, me 

 love Jesus Christ, me go into the bush and 

 pray to Jesus Christ ; me love to talk of Him, 

 and think of Him ; and, by and by, me die, and 

 go to Jesus Christ.' This aged chief, on his 

 conversion, became much concerned for the 

 instruction of others around him, and before 

 the school-house was completed, actually gave 

 up his own house for a school, and a place for 

 the Wesleyan preachers to hold divine service 

 in, and retired to a cabin in the woods. He 

 would pray with the Indians himself, some- 

 times read to them portions of the Liturgy, 

 which they have in the Mohawk language, and 



