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would not be hard to write another poem, of a corre-
sponding character, on the arrival of emigrants in
America; but his mind was turned to more immediate
duties. As he looked on the gray-haired father, the
meekly-patient but anxious mother, the three hardy
young men, whose appearance betokened resolution and
strength, and the younger ones of the party, who were
alldaughters, he was moved at the thought of the long
journey yet before them, and the unexpected trials
through which they might have to pass. Young as he
was, he found it to be his plain duty to become their
adviser. He put them on their guard against the
sharpers who lie in wait for foreigners, and the infidel
seducers who betray hundreds. He besought them
from the beginning to reverence God, and cling to the
Christian principles of their forefathers. He even
offered to go with them to church, where they might
join in their own service and sing their own beloved
hymns. And he advised them to make no tarrying in
the great city, but to hasten towards their Western
home, which was to be in a beautiful section of the state
of Missouri. There, as he informed them, they would
find a large settlement of German Protestants, and
would have a welcome among their own people. He
explained to them the danger of giving themselves up
exclusively to labour and gain, and recommended early
and constant attention to the worship of God and the
education of the little ones. And before he left them