ON THE ISLAND OF VATE: 147 
“At length, however, deliverance came; I do not remem- 
ber how or when, but the fact itself was indelibly impressed 
upon my mind by the way in which it came to my knowledge. 
Sipi was a modest lad, inclined to be reserved; hence I was 
surprised, almost startled, when, early one morning, on open- 
ing my study door in answer to a knock, Sipi stood before 
me with an expression of countenance almost wild, but so 
joyous. He had been enabled to understand God’s way of 
justification, and in his great delight had come to tell me the 
good news. Ah! what an announcement of hallowed inter- 
est was that to me. There was joy in our humble home on 
that memorable morning; and now, after the lapse of more 
than forty years, it is still vividly recalled as one of the most 
precious memories of a long life. 
“From this time Sipi went steadily on his way, evincing 
the genuineness of his conversion by a consistent walk. I 
do not remember that we ever again had occasion for grief 
or anxiety on his account. He was admitted to the church 
in December, 1839, and in 1845, as already stated, he went 
forth as an evangelist to heathen lands. The first visitors 
to Vaté, after the commencement of the mission, found him 
and his fellow laborers doing well, and all looking promising ; 
the next, as already intimated, found both gone, and the sta- 
tion they had occupied abandoned. 
“Shortly after the death of his fellow laborer, Sipi was 
taken ill, and his situation must have been cheerless indeed, 
as far as human succor was concerned, as he was unmarried, 
his fellow laborer gone, and the natives rendering little or 
no help. The teachers from another district visited him 
shortly before his death; they left him on a Saturday in 
charge of a native boy, and went to their own homes for 
the Sabbath [Sunday] services; and during their absence, 
the cruel natives seized the opportunity to lay violent hands 
on poor Sipi. 
“Tn the course of the afternoon ...a party went to his 
house; it looks as if there must have been something in their 
