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their object they were no more friends, but treated themunkindly and destroy their property, but said he likedthe people called Quakers, that they were good people andwould do them no harm. After the meeting was over,they generally expressed a wish that she would pay themanother visit. This is the only instance that I ever knewthis Chief to be pleased with white people coming amongstthem, or paying any attention to the preaching of theGospel. CALVIN YOUNG, EVE YOUNG. My friends set me to Augusta, where I had a favouredmeeting, but was obliged to go into the woods, for thehouse would not hold the people collected from variousmotives. I sat in silence for some minutes, and thenstood upon the stump of a tree, and looking steadfastly ata well dressed man, I pronounced those words, If theyhear not Moses, and the prophets, neither will they bepersuaded though one rose from the dead. I signifiedthere are such present, who neither believed in Moses,nor the prophets; and although my soul was risen fromthe dead spiritually, they would not give credit to it unlessthey believed in the outward Record, which testified ofHim who was the Resurrection of soul, as well as body,and who was beheld by the children of Israel, when Moseslifted up the brazen serpent on a pole, for those stung byserpents to behold, as though they beheld the Son of Man,the Son of God lifted up, who should Cure the deadlywound of the old serpent, even satan, who brought a spi-ritual death into the souls of all, since the day that Adamfell by disobeying the Righteous Commandment of theLiving God. I labored until I had no more strength,either to pray or preach, as I thought, and therefore gaveover; and the man whom I particularly addressed, whenhe could no longer stand the Truth, slipped off out of mysight. i was told, He had been educated a Quaker; buthad not been at a meeting for religious worship for twenty