keep you
humble and faithful, looking unto him for grace and strength to enable
you to work in His blessed cause, to proclaim the glad tidings of
salvation through a dear Redeemer to lost and perishing souls! This is a
great comfort to me, and more than I deserve. None other compensates for
all my trials and afflictions here, as that God, of His goodness, should
have inclined the hearts of many of my dear children to seek His face
and to testify to the ways of God being the ways of pleasantness and
peace. At so much goodness my soul doth bless and praise my God and
Redeemer. My dear boy, you must not forget to pray for your poor
unworthy Mother, that she may be daily renewed in the inner man, and so
kept by the grace of God, as to be able to endure unto the end, and at
last to be received among those that are made perfect, to praise Him
that hath redeemed us for ever and ever. Your kind and anxious enquiries
about home, I shall endeavour to answer. Your dear Father has returned,
and is as well as usual, but still suffers much at times. Your heavenly
Father has been pleased to lay His hand of affliction once more upon
your sister, Mrs. Mitchell, by taking away her youngest boy in November
last. Edwy, I am happy to say, appears to persevere in serving God,
which, with the blessing of God, may he continue to do. Your brother
George has left for England. He desires that all your letters be sent to
him in England, which contain anything interesting about the Indians, or
of the work of religion. The state of religion in this part, I think, is
rather on the rise, that is to say, they attend better to public
worship, and receive their preacher in a more friendly manner than
before. Write as often as you can to let us know how you are, and how
the work of religion is progressing.--H.]

_Jan. 3rd._--I have this day visited the Indians at Rice Lake: all
prosperity here. I have been much refreshed this evening in meeting
my beloved brother and fellow-labourer in the Gospel, Peter Jones.
These pleasing interviews bring to mind many refreshing seasons we
have enjoyed together, when seeking the lost sheep of the house of
Israel. This year thus far, has been attended with peculiar trials;
my health has not been good; I have had conflicts without, and
fears within.

_Jan. 30th._--Visited a poor woman to-day in the last stage of
consumption, she gives evidence that her peace is made with