'72 THE LIFE OF

want you to pray for me, and to burn these gods, or
throw them whereI can never see them.” Shortly after
this interview, he obtained religion, and became truly

happy in the Lord.

There were many equally interesting conversions
about this time. I must here mention what was often
very amusing to the missionaries, and would often
create a smile, if nothing more. When some of the
Indians were under conviction, they would take some
of their own medicines (herbs) to cure their “ sickness,”
—-for so they termed conviction. An old medicine man
once sent a message to us, stating that his daughter
was dying; and that it was caused by our singing and
praying before her so much; he also added, that in the
event of her death, he would have his revenge by
killing us, and insisted upon it that we must come im-
mediately, and endeavor to relieve her. We went, and
after having prayed with her for some time, she revived,
and expressed her confidence that the Holy Spirit had
operated upon her heart. The old man soon became con-
vinced that his daughter was not dying, except unto
sin; he, therefore, at once, became reconciled and de-
lighted too.

VVe now commenced traveling on snow shoes within
fifteen or twenty miles around, where the Indians were
hunting; praying, and preaching to them. The Lord
owned and blessed our labors wherever we went. VVe
held prayer meetings in the woods. All this time the
.Mah-je .Mon-e-doo (Bad Spirit) was not asleep. In the
spring the heathen party started in a body to visit their
old friend Spear .Ma./cer, for the purpose of uniting with