While Brant was on his second visit to England, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts asked his help in getting out their printed books for the Indians.  He willingly assented, and soon had a new edition of the Prayer and Psalm Book in preparation, He translated also the Gospel of St Mark.  The Prayer and Psalm Book and his translation of the Gospel of St Mark were issued as one book.  The publication of this volume must have brought a feeling of pride to the breast of the Mohawk chief.  The book was a work of art, well printed and with some fine engravings.  The frontispiece depicted the inside of a chapel, in which the king and queen were standing with a bishop on each side of them.  The monarch and his consort were handing sacred books to the Indians, who were clustered about in an expectant attitude.

A few years later Brant translated into the Mohawk tongue the Liturgy of the Anglican Church as well as a doctrinal primer.  Copies of these were sent to Harvard University, and its corporation replied with a cordial vote of thanks to the War Chief for his gift.  Brant also planned to write a comprehensive history of the Six Nations, but unfortunately this work seems never to have been commenced.

Hardly had the Mohawks settled at Grand River when they began to feel that they should have a church building in which to worship.  Funds were gathered, and as early as 1785 they were laying the foundations of a suitable edifice.  This building, which was reared in the depths of the forest about two miles from the centre of what is now the city of Brantford, generally went by the name of ‘The Old Mohawk Church.’  In 1904, on a petition to the king, it was given the title of ’His Majesty’s Chapel of the Mohawks.’  Thus was restored the name of the church in which the Indians were wont to worship in the Mohawk valley.  With its square tower, quaint slender steeple, and the graves of bygone generations of red men who have worshipped in it gathered about its walls, it is a venerable reminder of the past.  The Bible which was first used in ‘The Old Mohawk Church’ was a gift from Queen Anne to the tribesmen in 1712 and was brought to Grand River from their former home on the Mohawk.  The silver communion plate was part of a service which had also been presented to them by the same queen before they came to Canada.  It was of burnished silver and bore the Royal Coat of Arms.  The remaining pieces of this set were given to the Indians who settled in the Bay of Quinte district.  In the year 1786 there was sent to the church a large and melodious bell.  This was a presentation from the British government, and on it was stamped the arms of the reigning House of Hanover.