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nity with such men! Well might David say, I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved.' But, adored be God! that heaven is a place into which no unclean thing enters. I long for the holiness of that world! Lord, prepare me for it!"

In September, he made a journey to NewYork, and to New-Haven; and endeavoured to be reconciled to the college. But it was in vain. His old opposers and enemies would not accept of any acknowledgments from him. Oct. 4. he writes thus:-" I rode home to my house and people. The poor Indians appeared very glad of my return, and I presently fell on my knees, and blessed God for my safe return. I have taken many considerable journeys since this time last year, and yet God has never suffered any distressing calamity to befall me, though I have been often exposed to cold and hunger in the wilderness, where the comforts of life were not to be had; have been frequently lost in the woods, obliged to ride much in the dark, and once lay out in the woods all night."

Mr. Brainerd continued at Kaunaumeek

about a year; but as the Indians there were few in number, he persuaded them to remove to Stockbridge, that they might enjoy the preaching and attention of the Rev. Mr. Serjeant, while he determined to remove where a greater number might be benefited by his instructions. During his residence among these Indians, his various and constant exertions were astonishing; he continually discoursed with them, and often catechised them.

He had a very slight acquaintance with their language, and was obliged to teach them by an interpreter. He had to manage their temporal concerns, and often to arbitrate between them in their disagreements. When we remember that the objects of his care were untutored savages, and that, during the whole time of his continuance among them, his health was feeble, his constitution delicate, and that he often struggled with severe indisposition, we are filled with surprise at the patient perseverance by which he surmounted the many difficulties which he had to encounter. For a considerable part of the time, amidst his other labours, he closely applied himself to

the study of the Indian language; and, to enjoy the advantages of a tutor, he often rode, in the depth of winter, a distance of twenty miles, backwards and forwards, through the uninhabited woods, between Stockbridge and Kaunaumeek.

The labours of this servant of God were not in vain to these Indians. By his instructions, and by those of the interpreter in the school, both old and young became considerably enlightened in Christian knowledge; and there was a great reformation in their lives and manners. Their idolatrous sacrifices were wholly laid aside; their heathenish practice of dancing, hallooing, &c. broken off; they manifested a regard for the Lord's day, both behaving soberly themselves, and keeping their children in order; and the word of God seemed at times to be attended with some power on their hearts and consciences. Some were awakened to a sense of their miserable estate as sinners, and several came of their own accord to discourse about the concerns of their souls, and some with tears inquired what they should do to be saved; and

asked if the God that Christians served, would be merciful to those who had been frequently drunk, &c. When he made known to them his design to leave them, and go to another tribe of Indians at a great distance, they were very sorrowful, and earnestly endeavoured to persuade him to remain among thein.

As soon as Mr. Brainerd had made up his mind to leave Kaunaumeek, for some more extensive field of useful labour, he made a journey to New-Jersey, to meet the commissioners of the missionary society, to lay the matter before them. They met him at Elizabethtown, and resolved that he should leave his station at Kaunaumeek, and go to Delaware; which resolution met his approbation and ready compliance. His willingness to engage in this new service did not spring from an ignorance of the hardships which he would meet; he did not rush into this service like the war-horse into the battle, for he already knew from experience the nature of a missionary life. For a year he had struggled through discouragements and privations

in the same work. Shut out from the pleasures and comforts of civilized life, he had lived and laboured amid the ignorance and depravity of barbarians. Yet he was still willing to encounter the same and still greater trials. With all the difficulties of his work in full view, his conduct and determination spoke the language of Paul, “None of these things move me, neither count I life dear unto myself, so that I may finish my course with joy."

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Neither did he again enter this painful service because no other field of usefulness opened before him; for at this time he received two very pressing invitations to settle over congregations of civilized, Christian people; one of which was from Easthampton, the finest, pleasantest town on Long-Island, and one of its largest and most wealthy parishes. But the charms of civilized society, the intercourse of Christian friendship, and the prospect of honour and riches, were all lost on the devoted spirit of Brainerd. Before all these he chose a wigwam, among brutish savages, the difficulties and intense

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