were environed by blazing woods, whose fires burnt ficrcely for honrs around their encampment. Several of the party died and were buried by the way.

"But all these trials were forgotten in their daily meetings, in which the presence of the Lord was inost sensibly and com fortably felt. Thcse were always held in the evening, around a large fire, in the open air."

They celebrated a "joyful commemoration" of Easter, and spent the Passion- week "in blessed contemplation" of the sufferings of Jesus, whose "presence supported them under all aflictions, insomueh that they never lost their checrfulness and resignation" during the five long weeks of this terrible jonrney.

On the 9th of May 1hey arrived at Machwihilusing, and "forgot all their pain and trouble for joy that they had reach- cd the place of their future abode. * *With offers of praise and thanksgiving, they devoted themselres anew to IHim who had given them rest for the soles of their feet."

With renewed courage" they sclected thcir home on the banks of the Susquchanna, and procceded to build houses. They gave to the settlement the namec of Friedenshutten-a name full of significance, as coming fromn the hearts of these pcrsccnted wanderers: Fricdenshutten-"Tonts of Peace."

If all this persecution had fallen upon these Indians because they were Christians, the record, piteous as it is, would be only one out of thousands of records of the snfferings of Christian martyrs, and would stir our But this was not the case sympathies less than many another simply because they were Indians that the people demanded their lives, and would have taken them, again and again, except that all the power of the Goverument was enlisted for their protection. The fact of their being Christians did not enter in, one way or the other, any more than did the fact that they were peaceable. They were Indians, and the frontiersmen of Pennsylvania intended It was