It may not, however, be improper to observe here, that if we believe there is a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, if our future happiness or misery depends on our conduct here, if christianity gives the justest notions of the Deity, teaches that worship which is most worthy of Him, as well as the purest morals, and promotes the happiness of States and Individuals--if, I say, we believe all this, certainly humanity should induce us to diffuse the light of Christianity among those poor Savages who have been so faithful and serviceable to us.

The conversion of the Iroquois is evidently one of the first steps that should be taken to attach them firmly to our interest, and civilise them. Some progress has been already made in this by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and they still support a missionary and two schoolmasters among the Mohawks. But however willing to engage further in this laudable design, the Society are precluded from it by the low state of their funds. The expense attending it is greater than they are able to bear. A plan more enlarged, and measures more rigorous than their circumstances can possibly admit, must be pursued, before such a change can -take' place among the Iroquois as would be beneficial to the State in so high a degree, and so extensively as were to be wished, and might reasonably be expected. The only Resource to which application can be made in this case is the government, and indeed good policy requires that the Crown should be principally concerned in this business. The following reasons and arguments are therefore humbly offered to shew why government should interpose in this matter, and attempt the conversion of the Iroquois.