the little neighborhood, seven or eight in number met together and appeared to be remarkably impressed. They read, prayed and fung hymns, and appeared to have the special prefence of the Spirit. Three of them in some of their meetings have been struck down. One of them lay above twelve hours in this fituation, and all the exertions of her parents could not bring her to her fenfes. She breathed, her pulse beat and there was a glow in her face. She at last gradually came to herself and began to whisper, "Glory to God!" As her strength increafed, her voice became louder and she broke out into an exhortation which aftonished all who heard her. The others lay but an hour or two in this fituation. "I then made enquiries of the children what their feelings were, and as children will not be hypocrites, I conclude they gave me an honest account of their exercises. They told me they could not help falling down. That they were not in great distress nor in great joy previous to this, but " felt happy." That the impulse was fudden without any warning; that they knew nothing which took place while they were in this fituation. And that after they revived they felt more joyful than before. I told these children that these bodily exercises were no figns that they had felt religion; that true religion confifted in a love to God and duty. I found their meetings had been irregular; fometimes all prayed vocally together,-I advised them to pray one by one and conduct with regularlty. I exhorted them to press on in the ways of religion and spend all their strength for God. It is remarkable that the Spirit of God should visit this little solitary neighborhood where they have feldom heard a fermon. It is also remarkable that the work should begin with the children. This shews that they did not attend to these duties in imitation of others, but were moved by the special operations of the Holy Spirit. God is able to perfect praise out of the mouths of babes and fucklings.". Extrats from a letter, to one of the trustees of the Hampshire Miffionary Society, from one of its missionaries. REV. SIR, " In compliance with your request I shall lay before you a brief account of my missionary labors. The first part of my miffion, I spent on Black river. I passed through all the fettlements down to lake Ontario, and preached in them all, except one which was supplied with preaching. 66 - The field for Miffionary labors is extenfive and the demand preffing. There is a sprinkling of pious people scattered throughout this country, who rejoice to fee a miffionary. The present labors of missionaries are great encouragements to the people of God; and they are often effectual in calling up the attention of the stupid and thoughtless to the concerns of futurity. People very fervently express their thanks for the exertions of mif fionary societies in sending the gospel to them. They often express their feelings with tears, wishing that God's prefence may attend his ministers. You can scarcely form an idea of the feel. ings of these kind people, without witnessing it with your own eyes. There is, in this country, a gen, ligion. On week days, as well as on the fabbath, an encouraging number attend lectures, and appear very attentive and sometimes affected with gospel truths. 'Tis not uncommon for people to ride five or fix miles to attend an afternoon lecture, and ten or twelve miles on the fabbath. These things I mention to encourage you in the unwearied pains you are taking to promote the great objects of our fociety. Our labor, we hope, is not in vain in the Lord. Infidels in fome instances are inquiring, Whether that book, they have so long defpised and ridiculed, will not prove true at last? God is King in Zion, and he will fupport his own cause. The miffionary business is very pleasing to me. The ferious attention of the people, and their friendly hofpitality very far exceed my expectations. I have not in a fingle instance been treated with unkindness. eral attention to the truths of re- | the apostle, Who is sufficient for " I have preached nearly as often as once a day fince I have been on miffionary ground. There is no difficulty in obtaining hearers, even in the most busy season. " I have visited and catechised schools wherever I found them, and encouraged them in learning the catechism. They are generally very ignorant in this refpect. As far as time would permit, I have vifited from house to house and conversed with families on the concerns of another world. I have much unfaithfulness to lament, but 'tis my prevailing defire to answer in some measure the great objects of the Society, to acquit myself to my own confcience, and to God the Judge of all. The station is most important; and I feel sensibly the exclamation of these things? "The distribution of the Society's books has, I hope, produced a happy effect. In one neighborhood I found three families who had took up the duty of family prayer, in consequence of conviction derived from Doddridge's Address, which was left with them by. one of our miffionaries the last year. " I must with sentiments of ef teem and affection, fubscribe myself yours in the gospel, TIM. M. COOLEY." Thou bidd'it, and at thy dread command, When with the wolf the gentle lamb shall feed, The lion with the ox divide the grain; mead, Disease invades a guilty land. 3. Thy patience long have we abus'd, 4. And now thy hand affumes the rod 5. Thou, righteous God, hak brought Subdue our stubborn spirits too; And infants harmless play where ferpents reign. Teach barbarous lands to fear thy glo Crush their vain idols and restore thy foes, reclaim, And bid the defert bloffom as the rofe rejoice, And fhout hofsannas to our heav'nly King, Donations to the Missionary Society of Connecticut. August 26. Tim. Stone, 2d, Guilford, for Indian Miffions, Septem. 6. A Friend of Missions of Franklin, 13. A young Friend of Miffions, FOR THE CONNECTICUT EVAN- | all, Efq. of Boston, who, at his were rather in the form of a ferious, | great damage had been done to own charge, built a meeting house for one of the Indian congrega tions.* As the Indians in New-England were taught Christianity by minifters of the congregational denomination, so their public religious exercises bore a refemblance to those performed in the congregational churches of the English. They prayed in their assemblies without any pre-compofed form: And it was observed by those who understood their language, and occafionally attended their meetings, that many of those, who led in their devotions, prayed with much pertinence and enlargement. Pfalmody conftituted part of their public worship. Some of them performed this in a very melodious manner. Mr. Eliot prepared a verfion of the Pfalms in their language in metre. In respect to their preachingIn early times, till they had gained more knowledge, and had more experience, the public difcourses of the Indian teachers * Magnalia, B. II. p. 201. fcriptural exhortation: But they gradually imitated, in fome meafure, the manner of preaching, customary at that day among the New-English divines. Mr. Eliot vifited the Indians, and preached lectures as often as he could, on week days; but as his field of fervice was extenfiveas fo many Indian congregations were under his fuperintendence, he found it neceffary to employ fome of the most serious, beft instructed, and judicious men among them to give a word of exhortation to their brethren on Lord's days, and on other days on fpecial occafions. After some years, teachers of their own nation were generally fixed among them. At the fame time, some neighboring English minifters ftatedly visited the Indian societies, preached lectures to them, and gave necessary assistance to their stated teachers. the fruits of their fields. The exhortation of Waban, an Indian, from Matthew ix. 12, 13. "But when Jesus heard that he faid unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are fick." "But go ye, and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not facrifice; for I am not come to call the righteous, but finners to repentance." " I am a poor weak man, and know but little, and therefore I shall fay but little." "These words are a fimilitude, that as fome be fick, and fome well; and we fee in experience, that when we be fick we need a physician, and go to him, and make use of his physic; but they that be well do not fo; they need it not, and care not for it: So it is with Soul-Sickness; and we are all fick with that fickness in our fouls; but we know it not. We have many, at this time, fick in In the specimen I shall now give of fome public difcourses of body, for which cause we do faft and pray this day, and cry to God; but more are fick in their fouls. We have a great many difeafes, and ficknesses in our fouls, as idlenefs, neglect of the fabbath, their teachers, the Christian reader will be pleased with the air of feriousness in which they appear ; and with many pertinent and solemn thoughts which they fuggeft, as arifing from the fubject: The plain garb in which their thoughts are drest, will not disgust any candid Christian : Their apparent fincerity, and zeal to promote practical religion will more than compenfate the want of external ornaments. Serious readers will doubtless be gratified with the following exhortations. The first was delivered on a faft day, when fickness was prevalent among them the other on a day of fafting and prayer on account of exceffive rains, in the year 1658, when passion, &c. Therefore, what should we do this day, but go to Chrift the phyfician; for Chrift is the physician of fouls: He healed mens' bodies, and he can heal fouls alfo : He is a great physician; therefore let all finners go to him: Therefore this day, know what need we have of Christ; and let us go to Chrift to heal us of our fins; and he can heal us both foul, and body." "Again, what is that leffon, which Christ would have us to learn, that he "came not to call the righteous, but finners to repentance? What! Does not God |