with them. What a proof of his sincerity! Nothing but
Christianity can make them renounce witchcraft, and many of them
are afraid of it long after their conversion.

_March 20th._--Busy to-day selecting suitable places for planting,
and employed the school boys in clearing some land for pasture.

_March 24th._--I am this day twenty-four years old. During the past
year my principal attention has been called to controversial
labours. If the Lord will, may this cup pass by in my future life.

_March 25th--Sabbath._--This day is the second anniversary of my
ministerial labours. My soul has been refreshed, my tongue
loosened, and my heart warmed.

_April 1st, 1827--Sabbath._--In speaking to my Indian brethren, the
word seemed deeply to affect their hearts.

_April 2nd._--In meeting Class this evening, I spoke for the first
time in Indian. My mind was much affected. The Indians broke forth
in exclamations of joy to hear a white man talk about God and
religion in their own tongue.

_April 6th._--My dear brother William and Dr. T. D. Morrison have
spent a night here, and greatly refreshed me by their converse.

_April 9th._--Another lesson of mortality in the death of Brother
John Jones' only child. I have been trying to comfort the parents,
who seem to bear their trial with Christian fortitude.

_York, April 15th._--[In a letter to his brother George at this date,
Dr. Ryerson thus speaks of the work under his care:--

We are all well, and are blessed in our labours at this place, and at
the Credit. I think the Indians are growing in knowledge and in grace.
They are getting on pretty well with their spring work. But in some
respects they are Indians, though they have become Christians.

I came from Long Point with a full determination to live wholly for God
and His Church. Through the blessing of God I have received greater
manifestations of grace than I had felt before during the year. I have
lately read "_Law's Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life_," which has
been very beneficial to me. My greatest grief of late is, that my love
to God and His people is not more humble, more fervent, and more
importunate. O could I feel as Jesus felt when he said, "My meat and
drink is to do the will of him that sent me." How much more happy and
useful I would be! I pray that I may.

John and Peter Jones seem to thirst after