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Dear Sir, make just what improvement you think fit of what I write. I can only hint. Poor Joseph Woolly has enlisted himself into the war againt his own nation. I hope he is coming to himself; his commander, I hear, speaks very well of him. Please to remember, in your near approaches to God,

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Yours of April 2d, after so long silence, was very welcome indeed. I rejoice to hear of any favourable prospects. My hope is in God, and I love to rest the affair wholly with him. If it is not his cause, and his glory may not be advanced by it, I do not desire the success of the suit.

General J informs me that all the six nations, except the Senecas, are united and engaged in the war; and I hear the Senecas are since joined with them against our enemies.

I have the pleasure to inform you, that religion has a more agreeable aspect, than it had some time ago in many places in this land.

I have heard nothing from your family of late. The Lord be with and succeed you in your affairs.

Please to accept most respectful salutations, from

Hon. P. Lyman.

Your Honor's most obedient

humble servant,

ELEAZAR WHEELOCK.

To Mr. Dennis De Berdt.

My Dear and Honored Sir,

Lebanon, July 18, 1764.

I doubt not your faith is yet strong, and your heart engaged in the great design of spreading the gospel among our American Pagans. The commissioners have lately met and formed, and voted to take Mr. Occum into their service, provided he may be discharged from a pre-engagement to the London commissioners in Boston; which we suppose may likely be without difficulty. They have also left the mission of friend A to a committee, when a door shall be opened. They also propose sending the two senior Indians in the school, to remote tribes next spring, in the capacity of school masters. We expect Mr C JS will return on a mission to the six nations, as soon as it shall be thought safe for him. We hope we have symptoms that the war with the Indians is near at an end. When that shall be, we apprehend will be the time, if ever, to exert ourselves in earnest in the affair, before our mischievous traders throng the country.

I do not know of one missionary or school master appointed, or prepared to be sent, but from us, on this continent. We have not a shilling to support it in stock: our trust and hope is only in God, whose cause it is, and in whose hands are the hearts of all, that he will provide supplies.

Dear

I doubt not of your sincerity and zeal in the cause. Mr. Whitefield (who is now at New York) is well engaged; but the truth is, there is but little to be expected in this land, on account of the general scarcity of money.

I have now eight or ten, in this School, well accomplished for school masters, except that some of them are yet too young; besides several English youth, who I expect, will be soon fit for the business.

There is a great revival of religion on Long Island, and in several places in New England.

You see I write in haste, and will excuse every thing amiss, and accept most affectionate regards from,

My dear Sir,

Yours in the dearest bonds,

ELEAZAR WHEELOCK.

P. S. I understand by General Lyman, that you are engaged in the cause I committed to you under God, and am quite glad to hear of any encouraging prospects. I trust you will not fail to advise me, from time to time, as you find occasion.

From the Countess of Huntingdon.

Bristol, August 9, 1764.

Rev. Sir,

I received your letter and expect soon to have the narrative of the Indian School transmitted to me, that you therein mention.

I have communicated your letter to many of the clergy, then met at my house, and they have agreed to unite with me, in recommending your pious design to our general, well known christian friends. May our gracious Lord bless and prosper all your labours, which may turn to exalt him in the hearts and minds of all his poor creatures, he has so dearly bought by his own blood, and that he may become eternally precious to those poor, dear Indian children's hearts, and to all that call upon him. I do earnestly pray, as I am persuaded, that the joy of the Lord is your strength, so will it make all labours sweet, and it will greatly rejoice my poor unworthy heart, to hear that the praise and glory of Jesus Christ is spread

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P. S. I rejoice that Mr. W is able to preach among you, and I hope his last works will be greater than his first.

From Mr. William Livingston.

New York, August 29, 1764.

Dear Sir,

I have had the pleasure of seeing your plan in print; and equally admire the benevolence of your design, and your zeal and economy in carrying it into execution.

I should imagine, that were the affair truly represented to the society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts, they could not refuse their charitable assistance. It is certainly more agreeable to the primitive design of that venerable body, as well as to that of their pious and charitable donors of all denominations, than to have their contributions dissipated in salaries to missionaries sent to a people already sitting under a stated ministry; which rather tends to promote divisions and a sectarian spirit, than the gospel of peace and benevolence. And yet what immense sums are squandered in introducing the preaching of the gospel where it has been preached a hundred years, in teaching the taught, and in christianizing christians! Surely their charitable aid, in preparing the way for the king'dom of Christ among the heathen, would be an unspeakable more rational application of their fund. And I am persuaded the very application, which numbers of those, who contribute to that fund, really imagine is made. I am

Your most humble servant,

WILLIAM LIVINGSTON.

To Mr. F

Dear Sir,

Lebanon, Sept. 30, 1764.

The repeated demonstrations you have given me of the truly charitable spirit in the society, for propagating christian knowledge among the poor, and the invitation you have given me to acquaint them with the necessities of this Indian School, embolden me with the warmest thanks for their past liberalities, to inform you that there is a prospect that a door will be opened next spring, for a number of missionaries and school masters, into the bowels of the Indian country, if means for their support may be had, which I doubt not of; and if God should mercifully so order it, they will stand in need of spelling books, catechisms, testaments, bibles, prayers for children, &c. &c. enough to supply several schools of Indians.

I hope you have received what I have heretofore, at several times written in haste, as I now do.

Please to remember me respectfully to the members of your society-my soul blesses them-the Lord reward their labour and zeal to make manifest the savour of his knowledge in every place.

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