BAPTISM OF SEC !! KIjR 
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Bhot out, the very pictnro of unutterable disgust at his 
new-fangled notions. 
When he at last applied for baptism, I simply asked him 
how he, having the Bible in his hand, and able to read itj 
thought he ought to act. Ho went home, gavo each of his 
superfluous wives new clothing, and all his own goods, 
which they had been accustomed to koep in their huts 
for him, and sent them to their parents with an inti- 
mation that ho had no fault to find with them, but that in 
parting with them he wished to follow the will of God. 
On the day on which ho and his childron woro baptizod, 
great numbers came to see tho ceremony. Somo thought, 
from a stupid calumny circulated by enemies to Chris- 
tianity in tho south, that the converts would bo made to 
drink an infusion of “ dead men’s brains,” and woro asto- 
nished to find that water only was usod at baptism. Seeing 
several of the old men actually in tears during tho sorvico, 
I asked them afterward tho cause of thoir woeping ; they 
wero ciying to see their father, as tbo Scotch remark over 
a case of suicide, “ so far left to himself." They seemed to 
think that 1 had thrown tho glamour ovor him, and that 
ne had become mine. Hero commenced an opposition 
which wo had not previously experienced. All tho friends 
of the divorcod wives became the opponents of our re- 
ligion. Tho attendance at school and church diminished 
to very few bosides tho chief’s own family. They all 
treated us still with respectful kindness but to Sechele 
himbelf they said things which, as he often romarkod, had 
they ventured on in former times, would havo cost them 
their lives. It was trying, after all wo had done, to see 
our labors so little appreciated ; but we had sown the 
good seed, and havo no doubt but it will yet spring up, 
(hough we may not livo to soo tho fruits. 
Hoaving this sketch of tho chief, I proccod to givo an 
equally rapid ono of our doaiing with his people, tho Ba- 
kena, or Bakwains. A small pioco of land, sufficient for n 
garden, was purchased when wo first went to live with 
