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429 deeply afflicted, praying to the Lord, to avert all danger from them and their People, and take them under his gracious protection! - and that he also in his Mercy, would cause the works of darkness, which at this present time, one so destructively carried on among the Hea then, to cease; that the lives of those ignosent, heathen might be preserved for the good purpose of turning them from their heathen, ish way unto him!"*

It appreared, from the conduct of the Savages, in taking this Chief thro the bretherens settlement, and burning him so near their village, that this plan had been denied, for the purpose of drawing the alteration of the mifsionaries and their Indians, to the act they were committing here while, forgetting Joshua for the moment, he at the name time, would be executed, at the place they had come from, so that they, would be too late, if they afterwards came to look for him.

Joshua, before and after being places on the burning pile; prayed most fervently to God his Saviour; and continued either praying, or singing praises to the Lord, untill his strength was exhausted, and death closed his career. One indian from that quarter an acquaintance and friend of mine, who witnesed the scene, afsured me and others; that our brother Joshua, remained.

• letter from the missionary pledge,

to the missionaries of Gorhem.