221 AN INTERESTING SCENE. 



ing striking passage from the Prophet Isaiah as his 

 text : ". And it shall come to pass in that day, that 

 the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall 

 come that were ready to perish in the land of As- 

 syria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and 

 shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jeru- 

 salem." — Ch. xxvii. 12, 13. It was an interesting 

 spectacle to behold these poor outcasts sitting in 

 their ox-hide karosses, listening with fixed attention 

 as the words fell from the lips of the interpreter. 

 Two of the females were so deeply affected during 

 the service, that, giving vent to their feelings, they 

 wept aloud, and frequently so bitterly as to interrupt 

 the preacher in his address. 



At the conclusion of the sermon a hymn was sung 

 to a native air, and never did I hear sweeter har- 

 mony, such was the pathos and deep-toned expres- 

 sion of their wild and plaintive melody. 



" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks 

 Shout to each other, and the mountain tops 

 From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; 

 Till, nation after nation taught the strain, 

 Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round." 



An American writer, in describing a Sabbath at 

 Hido, one of the South Sea islands, makes several 

 remarks extremely applicable to the scene I wit- 

 nessed on the present occasion. " I have gazed," he 

 says, " on many worshipping assemblies, of every 

 variety and character, from those formed of the high 



