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the heart is centred in Him, and weaned from all worldlyattainments, or earthly possessions, it is not possible thatHe will honour us with spiritual riches, and qualify us tobring home many souls to Him, as instruments in His ownHands, to bring about that wonderful event, when the out-pouring of His Spirit causeth All to know the Lord, fromthe least unto the greatest. [15th 8th mo. 1805. Paris.] Eliza Kirkland, an amiable young woman, daughterof S. K. took me in a chaise to a Quaker’s house, fourmiles off, where I had a solemn meeting, which was ina barn, and warned the scoffers there whom I felt for, lestthey should be of the number of such who would inward-ly groan, saying, We fools thought their lives madness,and their end to be without honour. It was a satisfacto-ry time, notwithstanding some scorners being there. TheQuaker took me home to his house, where I abode thatnight in great sorrow of mind for some of the family notfearing God. The 16th I went to Brothertown, to collect the Indiansthere together, in the school-house. My advice to themwas, Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Right-eousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.Which things I explained, were the necessaries of life, thatthe Christians are entitled to, by the special promises andcare of our Heavenly Father, who watches over His chil-dren from day to day. Those Indians were Baptists, di-vided from two classes, one part believed in election, andthe other in free salvation. Where I was, they had re-fused their minister, because they said They would notworship such a cruel God as he served, as He only tookcare of a part of his creatures, and drew this comparison,by asking a question concerning their women: Wouldnot she be a cruel mother, who having two children,took the one and nurse it; and left the other to perish?so we will worship a God who takes care of all His chil-dren; which I think was an excellent conclusion, and asound argument was advanced to shew how far an Indianis capable of believing in the Living and True God, who