port, and I thought I could support three very well; but now my eyes are open to see that it is not right to have more than one wife, so I will part with two, and keep only the eldest and first one I married, with this request, that I may have the privilege of supporting the children by the other women, that they may not want." We told him that we were quite willing he should provide for his children, and that it was his duly so to do. He appeared highly pleased with what we told him. I then asked the two women if they were willing to leave their husband, they answered, "Yes, because they loved Jesus, and would not break his laws any more." They spoke with tears in their eyes, which caused pity in my heart on their behalf. The noble Chief then went to them, and said that "he took them when he did not know any better, but that now he must try and do what was right."[1] About noon we got through taking down the names of persons we considered proper subjects for baptism, being 132. About noon Elder Case started with Wm. Snake, and others, to see an Island called Snake Island, in Lake Simcoe, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it would make a suitable settlement for the Indians, In the afternoon I instructed the Indians in the nature of Christian Baptism. The brethren from the Credit, viz: Thos. Magee, John Thomas, and Young Smith, exhorted; great attention was paid.
Tuesday 17th. — In the morning I explained to them the meaning of the apostles' creed, as containing the whole sum of the Christian belief. My comrades from the Credit assisted in this exercise. About noon Elder Case returned from the
- ↑ It is painful to relate, that after adorning the christian profession a number of years, one of these women became a snare to him, and after failing into sin, he forsook the Methodists, and became a Roman Catholic, and then took to the firewater, and was eventually drowned near Penetangueshine, in the summer of 1847. Being in a state of intoxication, he fell from his canoe, and was found in about three feet of water.
