MISSIONARY REMINISCENCES,

PRINCIPALLY OF THE

WYANDOT NATION.

IN WHICH IS EXHIBITED THE EFFICACY OF THE GOSPEL
IN ELEVATING IGNORANT AND SAVAGE MEN.

BY THE REV, CHARLES ELLIOTT,

SOME TIME MISSIONARY AMONG THE WYANDOTS.

"Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor un-
circumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free but Christ is
all, and in a Cəl. íži, 71,

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New-York:

PUBLISHED BY LANE & SCOTT,

FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH, 200 MULBERRY-STREET.

JOSEPH LONGKING, PRINTER.

1850.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 62344

ASTOR, LENOX AND VILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1514

PREFACE.

THE following is the history of these Reminiscences. While missionary at Upper Sandusky, in 1822, the author kept a brief journal of passing events, for the first three months of his stay there. The keeping of the journal was interrupted by the increased duties of an extensive revival, in the first place; and subsequently, by his spending the latter half of the year in obtaining supplies for the increasing wants of the mission school and family. The Reminiscences took their origin as follows:-About the end of February, 1834, shortly after the writer commenced editing the Pittsburg Conference Journal, he was relating one day the substance of what is contained in Reminiscence XVI., to some friends in the printing office. They requested that it would be written and published. This was done, and after the publication of this, several others followed. Shortly after this, some thought that the incidents contained in these unadorned and unpretending narratives might be interesting to the public as a Sunday school book. This led the writer to

add the above-named journal and some other incidents not published in the Conference Journal. He judges that the life of Between-theLogs will be acceptable to most. He also supposes that the concluding observations on the efficacy of the Gospel, both in civilizing and Christianizing man, will not be unacceptable to those who may have patience to read what precedes; or who feel interested in the conversion of the world. No one who peruses this humble production will expect any literary embellishment. This is beyond the reach, and, in this work, foreign to, the design of the writer of the Reminiscences.

Pittsburg, Feb., 1835.

CHARLES ELLIOTT.