I have had many difficulties to contend with in my incipient
endeavours to an-est their attention, and bring them under tlie
merciful yoke of Gospel light and truth, which you can see more
at large by referring to the Dublin Record of December 12th and
15th, 183(>. I gave a valuable friend and brother, the Itev. Mr.
Minchin, permission to publish sucli extracts from my Journal, as
might not only interest the chrit«tian public, but might tend to
create some fund, whereby I might be enabled to promote the g<jod
work in this varied sphere of labour ; I have, however, had no
assistance from that t^uarter, and conclude that my friend has not
been able to accomplish tlie object in view. The only assistance 1
liave to acknowledge is £30 from my invaluable Bishop (part of
your funds), for the puri^ose of purchasing a horse, in July,
183G ; and £50 granted by the New England Company, with a
proviso that I was not to look for further aid from them, in
consequence of tlie limited fund the company possessed. This
sum I appropriated towards building a Mission-house among the
Indians, which still remains in an uufinish€^d state for want of
funds to complete it, and which, of course, if uncompleted must
soon go to decay. The house (a plan which the Bishop approved
if I could raise the means,) would have enabled me to remain
the entire of every alternate week in the Settlement, and would
thereby have facilitated the grand object of evangelizing the
tribes, as well as maturing my acquisition of the Chippewa
language, so as to declare to them in thoir nvrn tongue, wherein
they were born, the wonderful works of the liOrd.
