M.r DeBerdt
Lebanon
March 5. 1763.
My Dear Sir
Since my last to you My School has
appeard with a more Encouraging aſpect than ever there have.g been for Some Time evident markes of a Spirit of Conviction in the most of the my ^Scholars^ and in
ſeveral
Inſtances, much Reaſon to think ^yr has been^ a Saving Change has been wrought. The Instance
which I menti oned in my laſt of the young Mohawk appears more & more evident. and Joseph Woolley
gives me Reaſon to think that the [illegible]
^very lately he has [illegible]^
[illegible]
^a ſaving change indeed paſsed from Death to life.^ My Pleasure in them and in doing for them is
indeed very great. Such a School I never before Saw. —
The inclosed proposal pleaſe to
^I deſire you would^
Shew to
Doctr Giffords, M.r Savage and M.r Whitefield if he be yet in England and make what use and Improvement of it you ^ſhall^ think proper. I greatly long to have it accompliſh ed. are there more near his Majesty who would favour & Promote it? there are ſo many ^&
ſo weighty^ arguments in fav.r of it, that it cant
be but they would obtain his Majesties Counten nance if they were but Justly repreſented to him
M.rSmith of Boston gave me a
hint yt among other acts
^Expreſsions^ of Kindneſs towards this School there was Some
talk of Collecting a Library for it, which would indeed be very acceptable. as
it is ^very^ much wanted. and if God ^who has y.e
[illegible] of [illegible]in his [illegible][guess: Han^d^]^ Should put it into the Hearts of his people
^any^ to accompliſh it I hope Some generous Soul will ^also^ think
also of the Neceſsity we are in of a pair of Globes and a Set of good Mapps.
and as you are Senſible the weight of Charge
upon me, for the Support of this Deſign is not
^[below]
Diminiſhing
^
Diminiſhing but increaſing So I truſt you
will not be wanting to promote & encourage
Such aſsiſtance for me as Shall be needful
and within your Power.
I hope by the Bleſsing of God on the Labours of Meſsrs
Smith, Occom, and Aſhpo I may
^ſhall^ have the [illegible]Pleaſure to inform yu of that which ſhall be comfortable and [guess: Shew]
^refreſhing
& which ſhall
juſtify^ you & all those whose by whose Charity & Labours of Love this Deſign has been ſupported hitherto, that they have not been in vain
^what you have done has not been in vain.^ —
I am indeed eager to ſupply the [illegible]
ſavages
^world^ with Godly Miſsrs
and the more So
Dear Sir. of what vaſt importance is it that
a Sett of godly, Skillful, Faithf.ll
Miſsrs
^Men^ Should have the Lead in the great affair? Oh! let us pray
inceſsantly that the Lord of the Harveſt would ſend Such Labourersinto his Harveſt, and ^mercifully^ prevent all the miſcheifs
^which are^ to be feared from blind, carnal ſelf ſeeking men.
Dear ſir pray for
yours in the Deareſt Bonds
Eleazar Wheelock
Letter to M.r DeBerdt
March 5. 1763. with a proposal for a Tract of
Lands, &c