“Much of the goodness of God has also appeared in relation to their acquisition of knowledge, both in religion and in the affairs of common life. There has been a wonderful thirst after _Christian knowledge_ prevailing among them in general, and an eager desire of being instructed in Christian doctrines and manners. This has prompted them to ask many pertinent as well as important questions; the answers to which have tended much to enlighten their minds and promote their knowledge in divine things. Many of the doctrines which I have delivered, they have queried with me about, in order to gain further light and insight into them; and have from time to time manifested a good understanding of them, by their answers to the questions proposed to them in my catechetical lectures. “They have likewise queried with me respecting a proper _method_, as well as proper _matter of prayer_, and expressions suitable to be used in that religious exercise; and have taken pains in order to the performance of this duty with understanding.—They have likewise taken pains, and appeared remarkably apt in learning to sing _psalm-tunes_, and are now able to sing with a good degree of decency in the worship of God.—They have also acquired a considerable degree of useful knowledge in the affairs of common life; so that they now appear like rational creatures, fit for human society, free of that savage roughness and brutish stupidity which rendered them very disagreeable in their Pagan state. “They seem ambitious of a thorough acquaintance with the English language, and for that end frequently speak it among themselves. Many of them have made good proficiency in acquiring it, since my coming among them; so that most of them can understand a considerable part, and some the substance of my discourses, without an _Interpreter_, being used to my simple and familiar methods of expression, though they could not well understand other ministers. “As they are desirous of instruction, and surprisingly apt in the reception of it, so divine Providence has smiled upon them with regard to the _proper means_ in order to it. The attempts made for establishing a _school_ among them have succeeded, and a kind Providence has sent them a _schoolmaster_, of whom I may justly say, I know of ‘no man like minded, who will naturally care for their state.’ He has generally _thirty_ or _thirty-five_ children in his school; and when he kept an evening school, as he did while the length of the 'evenings would admit of it, _fifteen_ or _twenty_ grown people, married and single, attended.