In this third year of Brainerd's labours, on which we are entering:, he had most signal and unexpected success among the Indians.

And what else, indeed, could be expected?—Such earnest and unwearied desires for the spiritual good of this people, such wrestling in prayer for their conversion, and so much self-denial and suffering for the obtaining of this end, could not be in vain. After all the interchanges of his hopes and discouragements, and after waiting in persevering prayer and labour and difficulty, through a long night of trial, at length the day dawns. “ Weeping may endure for a night; but joy cometh in the morning.” He went forth “weeping, and bearing precious seed,” and now he “ cometh again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”

And yet this success was not with these Indians with whom he had been so long labouring ; but took place at a time, in a situation, and on men, quite beside his expectation!

By desire of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, Brainerd drew up a relation of his success, in the form of a Journal, which was published under the title of ‘Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos: the Rise and Progress of a Remarkable Work of Grace, among a Number of the Indians in New-Jersey and Pennsylvania.’