But the gratifying fact is the more conspicuous, as, amid much to discourage them, the standard under the care and efforts of godly men is again and again restored. No doubt a great source of their strength was the establishment of the Christian dogma by law. The assistance, too, of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts could not but bear witness in the minds of thoughtful people to the value of Christian truth and duty felt by the devout and humane peojjle of the mother-country in thus assisting in the support of the colonial clergy.

But the teachers who seeing these points with the people, and in private and public discourse taking care that they should not fail of appreciating them, the more courageously and effectively delivered and •urged the Word of God. In the month of July 1719, Rev. John Bartow, taking for his text, Jeremiah xiv. 22 : " Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O Lord, our God ; therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these things." Taking up the words of his text, evidently upon the last expression, he comments as follows : " Xow, by waiting upon God, in the Prophet's phrase is undoubtedly meant, The making our humble addresses daj' by day unto ye most wise and perfect being, who is endowed with Infinite power and goodness, the author of our life and well-being, who formed our bodys of the dust and created our s?)uls out of nothing, who iu his unsearchable providences placed us in this material world and controuls