"And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn
many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever," Daniel xii, 3.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED and corrected,

NEW-YORK,

PUBLISHED BY J. EMORY AND B. WAUGH, AT THE CONFERENCE

OFFICE, 14 CROSBY-STREET.

J. Collord, Printer.

ANDOVER-HARVARD THECLOGICAL LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE. MASS.

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Garrettson

DEDICATION.

TO MRS. CATHARINE GARRETTSON.

MADAM,-To whom can I so appropriately dedicate this account of one endeared to you by so many ties, as to yourself, who for so long a time knew and appreciated his worth, enjoyed his society, and now so sincerely mourn your loss? May that benignant Being, who so mercifully supported and directed your late excellent and venerable husband through a long life, and finally gave him such a complete victory over death, spread around you the wing of his mercy, and safely conduct you to "glory and immortality."

With Christian affection,

I am your humble servant,

New-York, August 1, 1829.

NATHAN BANGS.

PREFACE.

VERY Soon after the death of Mr. Garrettson it was made known to me by the bereaved widow, that he had expressed a desire that herself and daughter and myself should take the charge of his papers, and make such a disposition of them as we might consider to be fit and right.

After taking a cursory survey of them, it was resolved that Mrs. Garrettson and her daughter should first examine them, make such alterations or emendations as they might think expedient, and transmit them to me to be prepared for publication in the manner I might judge most suitable and proper.

Whatever reluctance I might feel to undertake a task so delicate, I could not refuse to comply with a request coming from one to whom I felt myself under many obligations for numerous tokens of his friendship, backed as it was by the wishes of his bereaved widow and daughter, and more especially as he had, previously to his death, frequently suggested the same thing to me.

It is generally known that Mr. Garrettson published an account of his experience and travels in the year 1791. This account embraces a period of about thirty-nine years of his natural life, and sixteen of his spiritual pilgrimage. To this printed journal he had appended several manuscript notes. These, which appear to have been written near the close of his life, give a more detailed account of some of the