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" My God who makes the sun to know 

 His proper hour to rise, 

 And to give light to all below, 

 Doth send him round the skies." 



Such a scene has been eloquently described by a 

 recent writer. " We should like to travel with you," 

 he remarks, " through a district, still subject to the 

 tyranny of heathenism, until you reach the Missionary 

 village, reposing in its peacefulness on the mountain 

 side, or in the shaded valley. What a contrast be- 

 tween the scenes through which you have passed 

 and that you now attain ! How striking the differ- 

 ence between the rude wanderers whom you had 

 met in fear and suspicion, and the cottagers who 

 flock around you and hail you as a brother ! Are 

 they men of the same tribe ; those whom we had 

 seen marauding like beasts of prey, and those who 

 are here settled to quiet occupation ? In place of 

 the war-whoop, whose wild echoes startled us as we 

 wound through the passes of the land, we hear no- 

 thing but the music of contentment, the hum of chil- 

 dren busy in their schools, or the church-bell chim- 

 ing its welcome invitation. What hath effected this 

 wondrous transformation ? What magician hath been 

 here, summoning up a little paradise in the desert, 

 and reducing into industrious and united households 

 the very outcasts of human kind ? We will ask the 

 Missionary who is moving as the patriarch of 

 the village, from cottage to cottage, encouraging 



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