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 recovery through the death and sufferings of Jesus Christ. I also gave them a short account of the conversion of our Indian brethren at the River Credit, Lake Simcoe, Rice Lake, and Belleville. Brother P. B. then rose, and said that what I had told them was truth, which he knew by experience since he had become a christian. He told them it was about a year ago since he first heard the word of the Great Spirit and was made acquainted with the love of Jesus in his heart; that since then he had forsaken his drunkenness, and never tasted one drop; that he had thrown away all his magical apparatus, being convinced that it was not right in the sight of God to practice such arts. "O how thankful I am," said he, "that I found the Great Spirit in my heart! Oh! that all my relations and friends would receive the same blessing." Brother W. J. then rose and bore testimony to the truths of the christian religion. Brother G. H. also spoke at some length, and in a feeling manner, he told them the many prejudices they had against the christian religion, before they knew what it was, and felt the blessings of it in their hearts. Caleb, the Chief, then made the following reply: "Brothers, we do not feel at liberty to give an answer at present as to whether we will become Christians or not, but we will leave it with our Chiefs at Oduhmekoo's Camp, to say whether they will receive the white man's religion or not, and whatever they say we will do." Thomas Smith made some objections by saying, that the Great Spirit made the Indian and the white man; that he gave the white man his religion written in a book, and the Indian his way of worship, but not written in a book, consequently God did not design that they should worship alike. I answered his objections by saying, that I could read the good book he spoke of, and that in it there was no particular mention made of any nation who should become Christians, but that it commanded every nation to receive the Christian religion, and that God would not cast away any