THE FUTURE STATE. 5 



the occasion of the first religious service held, he asked 

 me if he could put some questions on the subject of 

 Christianity, since such was the custom of their country 

 when any new subject was introduced to their notice. 

 I said, "By all means." He then inquired "If my 

 forefathers knew of a future judgment V I said, " Yes;" 

 and began to describe the scene of the great white 

 throne, and Him who should sit on it, from whose face 

 the heavens shall flee away, and be no more seen ; 

 interrupting he said, " You startle me, these words make 

 all my bones to shake, I have no more strength in me. 

 You have been talking about a future judgment, and 

 many terrible things, of which we know nothing," repeat- 

 ing, "Did your forefathers know of these things V I again 

 replied in the affirmative. The chief said, " All my fore- 

 fathers have passed away into darkness, without knowing 

 anything of what was to befall them ; how is it that your 

 forefathers, knowing all these things, did not send word 

 to my forefathers sooner?" This was rather a poser; but 

 I explained the geographical difficulties, and said it was 

 only after we had begun to send the knowledge of Christ 

 to Cape Colony and other parts of the country, to which 

 we had access, that we came to them ; that it was their 

 duty to receive what Europeans had now obtained the 

 power to offer them ; and that the time would come when 

 the whole world would receive the knowledge of Christ, 



English. He values everything European, and desires to trade with 

 white men. Some further details are found in the Lectuies about him. 



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