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 we again got our Indian brethren together. Most all knelt down during prayer. I expounded to them the Ten Commandments, to which they listened with deep attention. After this W. Herkimer, John Thomas, Alexander Chief, and Thomas Asance, exhorted our brethren with tears. Thos. Magee closed with prayer. During the exercises of this meeting I observed many were affected and shed tears of contrition. I asked the leading man what he thought of the things we had declared to them? He replied, “I believe all you have told us. I will try and do as you have advised us, and I will now become a christian, and worship the Great Spirit; but brothers, we are very poor and weak, and we have no one to teach us the good and right way.” Whilst listening to his mournful tale of destitution, my heart mourned over him and his people. We again held a meeting in the evening, and I explained to them the nature of repentance and faith in Christ. Before dismissing the meeting, we invited the penitents to come forward and kneel down before us, and we would pray for them. The whole of the adults came and fell upon their knees and appeared much affected. We prayed for them.

Friday 24th. — Early in the morning our Indian friends came together for further instruction, when I gave a talk on the evil of intemperance, and explained how much evil the fire-water had done to our forefathers, having destroyed thousands of them, and made their children poor and miserable as we find it this day. I exhorted them to forsake it altogether, and never again taste a drop of the liquid-fire, and gave them directions how to resist it when the white man offered it to them. After this we commended them to the care and protection of the Great Spirit.

Saturday 25th. — Made an early start for the new village of Goderich at the mouth of Red River, called by the Indians Manesetung. We found no Indians here, and we were