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Rh o we have ued the ame Method in teaching them, as we do to intruct little Children; inculcating the Chritian Truths into their Mind by frequent Repetitions, and making ue of imple and obvious Comparions, which, I thank God Almighty, has not wanted his Bleing. For I have perceived in ome the working of his Grace in a erious Amendment of their Lives; and their Endeavours have been to advance in the Way to Perfection, though all as yet is but a Beginning and Infancy, as we have mentioned in the lat Year's Memoirs or Relations of Greenland.

It is a Matter which cannot be quetioned, that, if you will make a Chritian out of a meer Savage and wild Man, you mut firt make him a reaonable Man, and the next Step will be eaier. This is authoried and confirmed by our Saviour's own Method. He makes a beginning from the earthly Things; he propoes the Myteries of the Kingdom of God in Parables and Similitudes. The firt Care taken in the Converion of Heathens is, to remove out of the Way all Rh