NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

us together in the wigwam, and pray with and for us,
several times a day, whether our father was at home or
not. I remember well, at this moment, the language of
her prayers.

“She was taken sick in the winter of 189.9, and was con-
fined to her bed, most of the time, for three months; her
disease was consumption. During these three months, she
enjoyed much religion; there was not a day, in which she
did not speak of Jesus and his promises with the greatest
confidence and delight.

“ When she grew worse, she called for the class leaders
to pray with her. She said to her mother,whom she sup-
posed would die first, because her hair was white, ‘you
will still live, but I am going to die, and will see Jesus
first; soon, however, you will follow me.’

“The spirit of my dear mother took its flight on the 27th
day of February, 1830. Just before her death, she prayed
with her children; and advised us to be good Christians, to
love Jesus, and to meet her in heaven. She then sung her
favorite hymn,

“Je sus ish pe mingk.-1h e zlmd.”
“Jesus, my all, to heaven 1s gone.”

“This was the first hymn she had ever heard or learned;
and it is on this account that I introduce and sing this
sweet hymn wheneverl lecture ‘On the origin, history,
traditions, migration, and customs of the Ojebwa nation.”
VVe all knelt again by her bed side, and while clapping
her hands, and endeavoring to shout for joy, she swooned
away in death. The last words which she feebly uttered,
were, ‘Jesus, Jesus.’ Her spirit then fled, her lips were
cold, and those warm hands that had so often and so faith-
fully administered comfort and relief, were now stiff. I
looked around the wigwam; my father, sister, and brother
sat near me, wringing their bands; they were filled with
bitter grief, and appeared inconsolable. I then began to
understand and appreciate fully her kindness and love.——
\Vho, who can, or will, take the place of a mother? Who
will pray for us when we are sick or in distress? Her
body was consigned to the grave without any parade. No