It was a spacious antique structure.

Within those very walls I first proclaimed the message of God to sinners.

As these children surrounded me, I sometimes pointed to the church, spoke to them of the nature of public worship, the value of the Sabbath, the duty of regular attendance on its services, and urged their serious attention to the means of grace.

I showed them the sad state of many countries, where neither churches nor Bibles were known, and the no less melancholy condition of multitudes at home, who sinfully neglect worship and slight the word of God.

I thus tried to make them sensible of their own favours and privileges.
Neither was I at a loss for another class of objects around me from which I could draw useful instruction; for many of the beauties of created nature appealed in view.
Eastward of us extended a large river or lake of sea-water, chiefly formed by the tide, and nearly enclosed by land.