of the Holy Ghost, and live the true life of Faith. These
women could all understand English; and several of
them professed to be Born again. Eve, the oldest squaw,
said I have been Christian thirty years, being four-
score years old; yet walked one day to hear me perch four
miles, which my Master bid me reward her for it double.
I was sorry that it was not in my power to clothe them
with necessary things; for I had but four gowns, and I
gave them three of my little number, and from one dozen
pieces of new linen, I left but one change: so the God of
Heaven and Earth, put it into the hearts of my rich Chris-
tian sisters to supply my returning wants, when I go
among them; and above all, clothe my poor Red sisters
with the saint’s pure white linen, that I may meet them
in the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I saw a white woman among the rest of the females,
who was from the State of
New jersey, she was smoking,
and had two children named, being married to an
Indian.
I was told that she had a third child, an infant; but
last
winter it perished for want of clothes: poor babe! its
sorrows are
at an end, and it is shining with the robe of
Jesu’s Righteousness! I told
her, She ought to be a pat-
tern to the Indian
women; and to induce her, I gave her
a long morning gown, to make
her helpless children each
one, requesting Abraham
Serjeant to let his daughter
make them: but he said It is too good.
It will last
the better I replied, for being fine and
good. Afterwards
I had the pleasure to see this white woman at a
meeting:
for she with many others came a long way, and I had
an
opportunity to preach repentance and Faith in Jesus
Christ, and was
blessed in my own soul abundantly, for
feeling the miseries of my
fellow-creatures in every direc-
tion, attending to the Spirit of God in me
1805, Stockbridge.]
Much concern I feel for the Indians here, as well
as for those I have
mentioned: but those have better
houses, and have a school for their
children, and many