“But what I have to say on personal experience will cast further light on the religious state of our society, or rather, it will cast a shade on the prospect. Notwithstanding these agreeable particulars already presented, there is little farther outward acknowledgment of God among us; there appears as yet no disposition to speak and act openly as the dependent creatures and avowed subjects of the Most High; so that, except now and then in private, I cannot give vent to those feelings which I find it my duty and happiness to cherish. On this account much of my religious exercises pass without that delight in God which His love and mercy demand; and my experience in general is that of the Psalmist, when he said, ‘my heart breaketh for the longing &.’ yet our state before God depends in no respect on frames and feelings; and though miserably defective still in every point, some greater degree of boldness for Christ in public, and something of resignation to labour in his vineyard though no fruit should appear, I acknowledge as the work of his free Spirit, by whom I trust to be upheld unto the end. My preaching since my last, has been on the following among other subjects, ‘God is not a man, &c.’ (Numb. xxiii. 19.) ‘In this was manifested, &c.’ (1 John iv. 19.) ‘How shall we escape, &c.’ (Heb. ii. 3.) “The state of the natives here has lately attracted much of my notice. From their long intercourse with Europeans, native habits are much laid aside. They are generally greatly addicted to drunkenness, and are proverbially dissolute. They are, in consequence, very little awed by the European christians. I am assured that they are usually ready to enter into personal contest with any of the European invalids, who may attempt to lord it over them; and except from those who eat the salt of the settlement, none of us have many tokens of respect paid us. In the four native schools, there are at present seventy-five scholars; those mentioned as reading books have left the schools from some cause or other, and no more books have been received.