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devote himself to them "with strictest discipline." In Pennsylvania two resident Church of England clergymen and colonists welcomed the missionaries, but found them all too few, since the death of a clergyman was apt to result in the loss of a congregation to the Church. The long voyage taken to England for Orders was often taken in vain. One man was shipwrecked and drowned in returning; another was taken prisoner by the French. In this colony of Pennsylvania the dissenters very well understood that "the sending of a bishop to America would contribute more to the increase of the Church than all the money that has been raised by the Venerable Society." Still, its good work told, for, while in 1702 in the whole of New England province, with its population of one hundred and thirteen thousand, there were but two Church of England clergymen; four years later the society had eighty-four missionaries there, more than one-fourth of whom had been brought up dissenters.

In 1711 the colonial agent sent to Yale College eight hundred volumes which were "devoured by the hungry students" and influenced the rector and a tutor of the college to enter the ministry of the Church. The former, Doctor Cutler, settled in Boston, and, "amidst increasing persecutions, maintained to the last the standard of the faith"; the latter, Mr. Johnson, for fifty years lived at Stratford, and "labored earnestly there and in neighboring towns." Being asked by the Bishop of London, however, "Are there any infidels, bond or free, within your parish, and what means are used for their conversion?" he replied, "There are nigh two hundred Indians in the bounds of the town, for whose conversion there are no means used, and the