Ripley119

This woman, who is a Christian, went three hundredmiles to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1802, when I wasthere, the last time I was in the country. [Utica, 21st8th mo. 1805.] This day I took my leave of Samuel Kirkland’s family,whom I hope to meet in the Kingdom of our Lord JesusChrist, if I see them no more in time. Eliza was a verypleasant companion, and assuaged my grief, in bringingme hither in her father’s chaise, being almost spent: for Ihave preached, prayed, and inwardly groaned so mud,hungering and thirsting after Righteousness for the Indiansof the South Settlement, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brother-town, that they may know the Love of Jesus, and witnessthe Power of God. I bid all those different Tribes adieu,believing my seed sown among them, shall be watered byHim who has richly provided for me, amidst so manyscenes of wo and poverty that my eyes have beheld. The white people, whom I have mixed among, areprincipally dead in trespasses and sins; and have a worsechance at salvation than their neighbouring brethren,whom they despise; because they conceive themselves alittle better off than those; being able to contrive betterthan they, who have laboured under so many disadvanta-ges from the want of the peculiar Smile of an IndulgentParent, who will Justify all His Proceedings at the last,and require of us all according to what knowledge he im-parts. My friend Eliza Kirkland copied me this Addressat my request: for, I thought it proved the Indians arecapable of improvement when their day of knowledge ap-proaches by the Special Providence of God, who settethup one and putteth down another, that it may be seen byall, He Ruleth on earth as well as in Heaven, being theOnly Potentate, who seethe all things. [22d 8th mo. 1805,Little Falls.] Speech of Peter, the Pagan, alias Sategealithea. A YOUNG Indian of the Pagan party, in a fit of in-toxication, had attempted to stab with a tomahawk, a white