therton, he in fact, from his first advent there, assumed the responsibility of a domestic missionary among the destitute whites of the New Jersey Pines and along a coast of nearly one hundred miles, from near Cape May to Shrewsbury and Shark River. His position as an Indian missionary was very trying: he loved his Indians too well to leave them. But they were too few to justify the entire appropriation of his time and energies. He clings to them, but at the same time, with apostolic fervor and benevolence, travels far and wide along the coast and among the Pines to give the gospel, gratuitously almost, to the destitute whites. How much they needed reformation, those who have read the history of the "Piners' in New Jersey will understand.

1766.

We glean from the minutes of the Synod this year a pretty definite idea of Mr. Brainerd's salary at this period of his hardest and most self-denying labor. The Synod say:

"Mr. Brainerd is appointed to receive the money in the hands of the Trustees of New Jersey College for Indian affairs for the current year, as an addition to his salary."

And again:

"From last year's minutes, some affairs respecting Mr. Brainerd's mission to the Indians, with some papers now

received from him, were taken under consideration; and it is ordered that what moneys have been collected last year for this mission be put into the hands of Mr. Treat, jun., an account of which he is desired to give the Synod to-morrow."

Once more:

"The Synod resolves to support the Indian school under Mr. Brainerd's care, and for that purpose order such members as have not this last year made collections immediately to collect, and transmit to the hands of Mr. Joseph Treat or Mr. Ewing, to be paid to Mr. Brainerd; and that the money now in Mr. Treat's hands be paid to Mr. Brainerd as soon as possible, which sum appears to be twenty-one pounds, sixteen shillings, and one penny."

According to this, the salary of Mr. Brainerd consisted of twenty pounds from the interest at Princeton, and twenty-one pounds, sixteen shillings, and one penny,-making in all a little over forty pounds, with two or three pounds' addition by Mr. Ewing; and this, with all his extra expenses for his Indians, all his journeys to meet missionaries, and all his domestic missionary labors in a field so obscure, so wide, and so poor that when he died his churches decayed, and no Presbyterian minister rose to follow him for near a hundred years. Truly he waged a warfare at his own charges. The Synod had some sympathy for him, as they this year say:

"Mr. Brush is appointed to assist Mr. Brainerd in supplying the vacancy in his neighborhood."

The following letter to Dr. Wheelock shows that Mr. Brainerd's anxiety in sending his young Indians to a distant school was not groundless. We read such a letter with sorrow:

FORKS OF EGG HARBOR, February 26, 1766.

REV'D AND VERY DEAR SIR:-
:-

I received a letter from you some time this winter which I had not opportunity to answer, and so, as is too common in more important matters, deferred preparing until an opportunity should present to reply; and now I hear of a vessel designed for New London in about a fortnight, but am on a journey and can say but a few things.

I was grieved to hear such an account about poor, unhappy Enoch. His mother, who is a calm, Christian woman, was, indeed, very much hurt, but behaved under it as became her character; but his father used me ill, and charged me with what had befallen his son. I was obliged to give him a good setting down, and soon quieted him, so that in a few minutes he was very humble, and begged me to write, and he would go to New England and look for his son. I discouraged that, as it was a bad season in the year and he a drunken fellow, telling him I would write to Mr. Wheelock. If therefore, dear sir, you can be any way instrumental in getting him home to his parents, it will, I think, be the best thing that can now be done. I am very much grieved for the trouble you have already had with him; I could wish a hundred times he had never gone a step that way. Pray, sir, if you can hear any thing of him at Rhode Island or elsewhere, let him know that his parents would have him come home, and the sooner the better.

Where is Jacob Woolley? I have not heard a word of him since I was at your house. I wish I could get a sight of him,-poor, unhappy youth!

Some of our Indians behave better of late than they did.

Where is Josey Woolley? and how does he manage? Where is Mr. Smith? and what encouragement has he? And, above all, how does your poor school live? I am sorry from my heart I can do nothing but say: ye warmed."

'Be

Where is Mr. Whitaker? I never heard whether he went to England.

In haste.

Reverend and honored sir,

Yours most cordially,

JOHN BRAINERD.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

SCHOOLMASTER PAID-BEATTY AND DUFFIELD'S TOUR AND JOURNAL -CONGREGATIONS TROUBLED BY SNAKES-FORT PITT, AND LABORS THERE SUCCESS AMONG THE INDIANS-MR. BRAINERD AND HIS INDIANS URGED TO MIGRATE TO OHIO-THE INDIANS REPLY IN THE NEGATIVE.

1767-68.

THE Synod of New York and New Jersey begins to be more considerate of its first foreign and domestic missionary. It says:

"The affairs of Mr. Brainerd's school came to be considered, and the Synod agree to allow Mr. Brainerd the sum of thirty pounds per year for the last three years for defraying the expenses of the Indian school, which sum he acknowledges he has already in his hands.

"And it is further agreed to allow Mr. Brainerd the sum of thirty pounds for the support of the Indian school for the current year, and the sum of twenty pounds as an addition to his salary for his extraordinary services in forming societies and laboring among the white people in that large and uncultivated country."*

As if his labors were not sufficient, they impose, no doubt with his consent, new responsibilities. In 1766, the Synod had appointed Messrs. Duf

* Records of Presbyterian Church, pp. 371, 275.