Griffith's friendly remembrance of me, altho' I despair of being able to aecept of his kind proposal. The time has been when the chance of obtaining a settlement in that part of Virginia wou'd have gratified my utmost ambition. But, at my time of life, and with such riveted prejudices in favor of a government totally different from that of the United States, Iam resolved not to look back. having once put my hand to the plow."'1

Though Mr. Stuart did visit Philadelphia again. in 1786 or 7, he never seems to have repented his removal to Canada. Yet the isolation in which he found himself would sometimes naturally call up memories that could not fail to be painful.

" T can scarcely refrain from dropping a tear to the memory of my old friends who are almost universally gone into banishment and may be considered as dead to their country and their friends! I am the only refugee clergyman in this Province. Beardsley, the Sayres, and, I believe, Dr. Seabury are in Nova Scotia but Ihave as yet no correspondence with them, the distance not being less than 400 miles."

As a relief from such thoughts as these he turned to the active duties of his calling. "TI shall not, (said he) regret the disappointment and chagrin I have hitherto met with, if it pleases God to make me the instrument of spreading the knowledge of his Gospel amongst the heathen and reclaiming only one lost sheep of the House of Israel."