AND OF THE LITURGY, TRANSLATED. ggg 
of extracts from my journals. I shall content 
myself with the following, in reference to the 
administration of the Sacraments, and the solem- 
nizing of Marriage. 
In the afternoon of September 26, 1830, 1 bap- 
tized Taua and Rangi, Waiapu and Anne, married 
natives; and Wakahihi and Waikari, unmarried. 
Their deportment during the time of administer- 
ing the ordinance was very solemn and pleasing ; 
and the conduct of all the natives in the chapel 
was such as we could wish to see it. Some of 
the baptized were aflFected to tears ; and all were 
evidently under the influence of strong religious 
feeling. May God, of his infinite mercy, grant 
that this impression may remain! We look to 
Him for the blessing : and we feel assured that it 
will not be withheld. In our Liturgy, as well as 
in Scripture, we are led to place our whole de- 
pendence upon a reconciled God, through a 
crucified Redeemer : Christ, and Christ alone, is 
there made the foundation of our hope of pardon, 
and of everlasting blessedness : and I believe that 
the sacred truths found in our Book of Common 
Prayer, wliich are constantly sounding in the ears 
and falling from the lips of the natives, have 
been one of the grand means of bringing them 
to their present state of mind. Translated into 
the New-Zealand language, our Liturgy is most 
strikingly beautiful. When any strange natives 
come into the chapel, and hear it, they say, “Ah 1 
those are not native prayers : if we did as those 
