They take great pleasure in learning to sing. We can already carry three parts of several tunes. I am well contented to live here, so long as Iam in such great business. I believe I shall persuade the men in this castle, at least the most of them, to labour next year. They begin now to see, that they could live better if they cultivated their lands, than they do now by hunting and fishing.

''T ask the continuance of your prayers, that God would give me grace, and fill my heart with love of God and compassion to perishing souls ; and that God would make me an instrument of winning many souls to Christ, before I leave this world.

'Please to accept much love and respect, from your affectionate and unworthy pupil, "¢Davip Fow ier."

The famine which visited western N. York this year obliged the Oncidas to remove in search of food to another quarter, and David Fowler returned to N. England for further aid. We have no means of following up the remainder of his career, but he is stated t ?ave been alive in 1811 at Oneida, an industrious farmer and useful man.--Ep.

THE SIX NATIONS. 355

And after man had sinned, God told him he should get his living by the sweat of his face, and he has commanded us in the fourth commandment to work six days in the week. And often in his word testified his displeasure against those who will not work for a living. This earth is all God's land, and he will have it all cultivated. So long as there are not people enough to inhabit the earth, God lets the wild beasts have it for their dwelling place ; and a few lazy savage people he suffers to live a hungry miserable life by hunting.