76 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
the gospel, he had become a new creature in Christ Jesus. 
As ruthless brutality had marked his way through life before 
conversion, so kindness and tender thoughtfulness filled his 
new life, and led him by great earnestness in prayer and 
effort to seek the recovery of those who continued as he 
once was, “dead in trespasses and sins.” With him it was 
abundantly true that to whom much is forgiven, the same 
loveth much. 
