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phasis, exclaimed, I hear: I understand. While 

 I was praying his expression of countenance was 

 most lovely. With his face turned upward, he 

 seemed to be deeply engaged in prayer. I bap 

 tized him, and gave him the name of Philip 

 Atkinson. I earnestly besought the Lord to 

 ratify in Heaven what He had permitted me to do 

 in His name, and to receive the soul of the poor 

 dying penitent before Him. He had the same 

 resignation and peace which he had evinced 

 throughout his sickness, weeping for his sins, 

 depending all upon the Saviour, confident of 

 pardon, and rejoicing in hope.&quot; 

 chief Legaic &quot;Among the converts baptized by Bishop Hills 



Baptized, 1863 



self, a still more remarkable triumph of Divine 

 Grace than even the case of Quthray, for Legaic 

 was no dying man, but still a vigorous and power 

 ful leader of his people. He had given Duncan 

 much anxiety. After he appeared tamed, his 

 old ferocity and love of sin had got the mastery 

 again and again. On one occasion he gathered the 

 Indians together and bade them farewell, saying 

 he could bear the restraints of Metlakahtla no 

 longer, and he must go, even if it meant eternal 

 perdition. He got into his canoe, and paddled 

 away alone, to the grief of the Christians he was 

 leaving. Next day he reappeared. A hundred 

 deaths, he said, would not equal the sufferings 

 of that night. And now the blasphemer and 

 persecutor was baptized by the name of Paul. 

 In him indeed did Jesus Christ show forth 



