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brace the Christian religion, and experience its 

 power in his heart, in patriarchal simplicity, as 

 a proof of an Indian's attachment to the me- 

 mory of a missionary, who had been the means 

 of his conversion to God. — He lived a reformed 

 man for fifty years, and at a very advanced age, 

 said, just before he died, — u I am an aged 

 hemlock-tree : the winds of one hundred years 

 have whistled through my branches : I am dead 

 at the top." (He was blind.) " Why I yet 

 live, the great good Spirit only knows. Pray 

 to my Jesus, that I may wait with patience my 

 appointed time to die : and when I die, lay me 

 by the side of my minister and father, that I 

 may go up with him at the great resurrection." 



Our next visit was to the Mohawk school, 

 for the erection of which, the New England 

 Company had placed money also in the hands 

 of Mr. Brandt. The wood and materials were 

 collected on the spot, but the building was not 

 completed. I urged the immediate completion 

 of it, as the place where the children of this 

 district met for instruction was attended with 

 much inconvenience. There were about twenty 

 present, who were taught by a Mohawk named 

 Laurence Davis, some of them were just be- 

 ginning to read, and of the thirty-four, who 



