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persons pray for us to do, we should be very dif- 
ferent from what we are : we should cast away 
all our sins : we should believe in their God, and 
be made like them in all their doings.” 
Shortly before my departure from New Zea- 
land, the following instances occurred : — May 4th, 
1834, Sunday, I baptized Paparangi, Kutu, Pita, 
and Timo, four chiefs; and Koutu, a slave of 
Hau’s ; with two of Kutu’s children, one of Pita’s, 
and one of Timo’s. Paparangi is the principal 
chief of Otuhere, and is between fifty and sixty 
years of age. He has long been earnestly de- 
sii’ing to become a partaker of that grace which 
brings salvation, and of the faith which purifies 
the heart and works by love. In his old age, he 
has been effectually called ; and is, I doubt not, a 
sincere and faithful follower of that which is good. 
The other three are young men, sons of chiefs in 
the neighbourhood of the Waimate : and the poor 
slave is a lad who possesses an excellent know- 
ledge of Scripture, and has been for many months 
desirous of being admitted, by baptism, into the 
Church of Christ. The conduct of them all, 
during the administration of the ordinances, was 
most serious and devout. 
On the morning of Sunday, June 8, 1834, I bap- 
tized tliirty-eight adult and sixteen infant natives : 
the adults have all of them been, for many months, 
candidates for this Christian ordinance ; and, as 
this is the last Sabbath, but one, which I shall in 
all probability spend, for a length of time, in this 
