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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XVII. 
MARKING TIME, COUNTING, ETC. 
Their only way of marking time is, by the 
moon and the seasons of the year. To tell how 
long since an event transpired, they say, so many 
moons,’’ or so many rainy seasons,” have elaps- 
ed. They know of no division of time into weeks, 
hours, and minutes. They have no knowledge of 
a Sabbath, or day of rest. If the theory of some, 
however, be correct, namely, that we do not re- 
quire the seventh part of our time in which to rest 
unless we work too hard the six days appointed 
by God in which to labor, they do not need a 
Sabbath. But away with such infidelity. 
One day as I visited a town some ten miles dis- 
tant from Good Hope Station I was forcibly im- 
pressed with the fact that the influence of that 
mission was being felt in establishing' the sacred- 
ness of the holy Sabbath even there. The head- 
man of the town remarked that he was going to 
bring us cocoa-nuts to sell to-morrow ; but turn- 
