which you have involved your families. Let me intreat you, FOR THE
SAKE OF THESE, to consider your ways. Great comfort it will
afford to those who are now almost overwhelmed with grief on your
account, to hear of your reformation and conversion. These would be
glad tidings, indeed, from a far country. The hopes they might then
form of seeing you again, would be truly pleasing; it would be little
less than receiving you again from the dead. Or if they never see you
in this world, the prospect of meeting with you in heaven, would add
comfort to their dying hours. Oh! let not their prayers and their tears
be lost upon you!

Attend to these things, FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS, who may follow you
hither, in the like unhappy circumstances. When they see your
reformation, and that in consequence of it, you are more comfortable
here than you were at home, they may be induced and encouraged to
follow your examples. Thus you will be instrumental in saving souls
from death.

I would farther plead with you, for the sake of the poor
unenlightened savages, who daily visit us, or who reside amongst us. If
these ignorant natives, as they become more and more acquainted with
our language and manners, hear you, many of you, curse, swear, lie,
abound in every kind of obscene and profane conversation; and if they
observe, that it is common with you to steal, to break the sabbath, to
be guilty of uncleanness, drunkenness, and other abominations; how must
their minds become prejudiced and their hearts hardened against that
pure and holy religion which we profess? Oh beware of laying
stumbling-blocks in the way of these blind people [Lev. xix. 14.], lest
the blood of their souls be one day required at your hands.

And yet I fear, yea, I well know, that they have already heard and seen
too much of such language, and such practices amongst us. Already some
of them have been taught to speak such language as they
continually hear, and though they do not yet understand the meaning of
the words they use, they can utter oaths and blasphemies almost as
readily as their CHRISTIAN instructors. By-standers divert themselves
with their attempts in this way, and think it is fine sport. But, my
friends, the scripture declares they are fools who make a mock at
sin.[Prov. xiv. 9.] But these things cause much sorrow to those who have
any reverence for God, or pity for their fellow creatures. I readily
profess my own deep concern for these proceedings, and my