and simplicity of my love and esteem of them, as being much better than myself. _Lord’s day, March 11._ “My soul was in some measure _strengthened in God_, in morning devotion; so that I was released from trembling fear and distress. Preached to my people from the parable of the _sower_, Matt. 13, and enjoyed some assistance both parts of the day, had some freedom, affection, and fervency in addressing my poor people; longed that God should take hold of their hearts, and make them spiritually alive. And indeed I had so much to say to them, that I knew not how to leave off speaking.” This was the last Sabbath in which he ever performed public service at Kaunaumeek, and these the last sermons which he ever preached to the Indians there. The methods he adopted for their salvation, he thus describes in a letter to Rev. Mr. Pemberton of New-York. “In my labors with them, in order to “turn them from darkness to light,” I studied what was most _plain_ and _easy_, and best suited to their capacities; and endeavored to set before them from time to time, as they were able to receive them, the most _important_ and _necessary_ truths of Christianity; such as most immediately concerned their speedy conversion to God, and such as I judged had the greatest tendency, as means, to effect that glorious change in them. But especially I made it the scope and drift of all my labors, to lead them into a thorough acquaintance with these two things: (1.) The _sinfulness_ and _misery_ of the estate they were naturally in; the evil of their hearts, the pollution of their natures; the heavy guilt they were under, and their exposedness to everlasting punishment; as also their utter inability to save themselves, either from their sins, or from those miseries which are the just punishment of them; and their unworthiness of any mercy at the hand of God, on account of any thing they themselves could do to procure his favor, and consequently their extreme need of Christ to save them. And, (2.) I frequently endeavored to open to them the _fullness_, _all-sufficiency_, and _freeness_ of that _redemption_ which the Son of God has wrought out by his obedience and sufferings, for perishing sinners: how this provision he had made was suited to all their wants; and how he called and invited them to accept of everlasting life freely, notwithstanding all their sinfulness. “After I had been with the Indians several months, I composed sundry _forms of prayer_, adapted to their circumstances and capacities; which, with the help of my interpreter, I translated into the Indian language; and soon learned to pronounce their words, so as to pray with them in their own tongue. I also translated sundry _psalms_ into their language, and soon after we were able to sing in the worship of God.