I am pained at my very heart ! -- and with Jeremiah, 0 that mine head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might "weep for the slain of my people ; for the dead lay as sheaves behind the mow'er.

The burnt bodies were most frightful to behold. A woman lay burnt, with her child at her side, as if she were just delivered, of which I was a living witness. Otlier w^omen lay burnt also in their houses ; and one corpse with her fruit still in her womb, most cruelly murdered in their dwelling with her husband and another child. The houses were converted into heaps of stones, so that I might say with Micah, We are made desolate ; and with Jeremiah, A piteous wail may go forth in his distress

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But iu all this, my request to our brethren is to remember us and our sufiering Church in their prayers. With Paul I say, Brothers, pray for us.

'Tis then soe that we see in all tliis the rod and Him who uses it; and with the Chiu-ch of the Lord willingly bear the Lord's anger; for we have sinned against him, and I exhort my Congregation to patience and endurance; and lately, at our montlily prayer-meeting, I took my text from Isaiah 42 -- Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers'? &« v. 24, 25; and such otlier verses in addition. I have also every evening during a whole month offered prayers up with the congregation, on the four points of our fort, under the blue sky. But the Lord strengthened me in aU this. We trust and depend further on the help of our God, that he will not altogether forsake us, but vouchsafe us his mercy in the midst of his justice, and evince his power in our weakness; for mountains may depart, and hills fall away, but His mercy shall not once depart from tliis feeble and infant congregation.