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 also gave a word of exhortation with life and energy, and we concluded our services with a short prayer meeting. The power of the Holy Spirit was poured upon us in a remarkable manner. After pronouncing the benediction our brethren began to shake each other by the hand in taken of their love, and sang songs of praise at the same time. A number fell to the floor under the power of the Lord, and some laid as if they were dead for a time; but when they came to they shouted the praises of the Lord, and the noise of rejoicing was heard a-far off. Glory be to God in the highest! One Indian woman fell at at this meeting who remained like a corpse the whole night and all the forenoon of the next day. Her body and arms were quite stiff and cold, except at the pit of her stomach, which had the signs of life, and the pulse was quite regular the whole time. When she came to she began to praise the Lord, and sent for the class leaders, and when they came she exhorted them to be very faithful in the worship of the Great Spirit, and informed them that she had been permitted to have a most glorious sight of heaven, which was past description, and that she had seen a number of christian Indians in that glorious kingdom.

Thursday 9th. — Brother John Beatty left us for the Snake Island this afternoon. Before he started he prayed most fervently for our success in our mission tour amongst the Indians.

Friday 10th. — We left in two birch bark canoes and proceeded down the River Severn, which runs a northern course. We passed through two carrying places, where the river falls several feet. At one of these falls I found some tobacco laid on the rocks, near the precipice, which had been left there by some poor pagan Indian as an offering to the god of the falls. About dusk we came to a little lake surrounded by huge rocks. On one of those rocks we made a fire and cooked our meat for supper, and then commended ourselves to God by prayer, and