180 1 8 0 SENECAS. [Report, prayers and you will exhortations, got an excellent quickening perception up on their brethren. It actually was recommended you to definitely an equivalent conference might be stored during the Cattaraugus ; in addition to earliest Wednesday from January was designated therefor. But when you to go out arrived, it absolutely was unearthed that a revival had already began ; and several people have been indulging the latest pledge they had feel partakers of grace out-of God. other Reservations. Our house of praise from the All the way down Channel, where in fact the meeting try commenced, says Mr. Wright, possess seats for two hundred or so and fifty, otherwise three hundred. On 2nd day of the latest fulfilling, they turned into wanted to complete most of the aisles and the place in the desk that have shed seats, and later to hang multiple group meetings at the Higher Station, so you’re able to fit the competition. The complete inhabitants of one’s Booking, and babies and you can pagans, is probable a little less than ten hundred or so ; while the count built on each other metropolitan areas try estimated at the from four to help you seven-hundred, a percentage much exceeding anything previously identified ahead of certainly one of this some body. The latest brethren regarding overseas gone back to their homes on the seventh day of the meeting ; however, personal exercises had been went on just about every day for two weeks otherwise alot more. T the guy frontrunners of your own dated people usually doubtless improve most strenuous operate to keep their ranking unbroken, because they have done within the last weeks ; and it also can not be known right now in what triumph. However, i’ve it comfort, the Lord can save yourself for the utmost. T he accessions into church, because ounted in order to 50-five, personal of them who’ve registered Tby page ; and you may sixty-tw o students have received baptism. Several wanderers was basically reclaimed., one of them one or two prominent chiefs, on the joy and you may reassurance of the many loved ones out-of Christ. Today’s amount of communicants is just one hundred and fiftyfour. Three persons could have united toward individuals of God, in addition to those people already mentioned, hadn’t death titled them off to a higher advantage. It’s wished one other people often hereafter be gathered unto the latest fold regarding Christ, for the consequence o f the fresh new present restoration. Unique qualities occurred with the Alleghany Booking, adopting the seminar within Cattaraugus got closed; and a number
182 182 SENECAS. [Statement, ters so you’re able to their privileges, if you have nowhere in their mind. Personally i think confident, claims Mr. B. F. Hallway, that if our home was very enlarged about fit 50 college students, in less than seven days we should be required to make aside terrible pagan pupils for want out-of area. T he almost every other college or university within Down Alleghany, instructed by the Mrs. Wellman, has been extremely of good use. T h elizabeth schools within the advice out of Mr. Potter are reduced prosperous. Although fidelity and you will mind-assertion of your own educators try worthy of unqualified commendation, their labors, a variety of factors, are not so winning while they desire to see them. Off Upper Cattaraugus the hyГ¶dyllinen viite statement is similar to what has been com municated by Mr. Wright inside the previous age. However the colleges educated by the Miss Kent and you may Miss Clark, in connection with Lower Cattaraugus, have made felt like progress. A few of the college students, more over, render evidence of which have getting actually selecting the father Goodness Christ. C IV IL IZ A T IO Letter T H Elizabeth P R Age S S. T he brethren up on the newest Alleghany Reservation have said but absolutely nothing, during the past year, of one’s improves and this its individuals are making throughout the arts and you will comforts off lives. T the guy obstacles to for example enhances, occurring in part from the character of these Indians, plus part from their peculiar reference to the newest light competition, try manifold. Nevertheless missionaries through to one other Booking are able to speak happily and you will we hope in connection with this. Ergo Mr. Wright claims : There has been relatively absolutely nothing intemperance; and there is recurring progress in respect so you can industry and you may economy. There was a beneficial deepening notice noticed within the informative jobs ; and the notice has-been strong that boarding colleges could be oriented, enough to meet with the wants of one’s entire populace, due to the fact merely a style of increasing new size of your Indians. T his testimony reveals conclusively that people commonly laboring within the a barren and you may thankless community. And you will Mr. Gleason verifies they by the after the statem ent: Our company is frequently told by one and one, to your our very own correct as well as on our kept, that there might have been great upgrade of those Indians contained in this an excellent very long time. Mr. Bradley, earlier an effective missionary teacher among them, have recently generated you a trip, and you may invested a Sabbath around. He was truly move by change that had been wrought. He seemed to think that there could rarely be found during the the Condition a minister off Christ that has viewed very much change in his society for a few otherwise 3 years prior, after all, while we had seen with this Scheduling. The new Gospels out-of Matthew and you may Mark, and come up with a number of 128 pages, brief octavo, provides issued from the press in Seneca, the fresh version being 1,eight hundred copies, within. debts of your American