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exhort them to leave off their habits of drunk- 

 enness, and lead sober lives. It pleased God 

 to bless these efforts to a farther inquiry after 

 education and the Christian religion, among 

 the natives. A lad of about seventeen, having 

 heard of the opening of the school, and being 

 very desirous of education, came from the dis- 

 tance of a hundred miles, to visit the place where 

 Indians were taught to read. Being hospitably 

 received by the Mohawk chief and others, he 

 entered the school, and has made considerable 

 progress in learning, and divine knowledge, so 

 as to afford encouraging hopes that he will be- 

 come a useful native teacher in a school, or a 

 preacher of righteousness among his brethren. 

 To obtain these, important agents should be a 

 leading object in every missionary undertaking. 

 — It was stated, that twenty, sometimes twenty- 

 five, Indian children regularly attended, and 

 that the Sunday school consisted, during the 

 summer on some occasions, of about sixty 

 youths and children. This Sabbath and day- 

 school, with the preaching and exhortations 

 of the Missionaries, have not only been pro- 

 ductive of much good among the Indians in 

 the more immediate neighbourhood of Davis's 

 Hamlet, but the means of effecting a most 

 remarkable change, both in a moral and 



