OF THE HOLY SACRAMENTS. 235 
part of the world, I appointed this day for its 
administration. The greater portion of those ad- 
mitted this day are chiefs. One, named Atua-haere, 
(that is the walking god,*”) is the great man of 
Kaikohi: he, and several of his slaves — from 
some of whom he first heard of the Gospel — 
stood side by side, as brethren; and all their 
distinction of rank was merged at that moment in 
the name of Christian. Not that his dependants 
will cast off their duty to their earthly master, in 
acknowledging a heavenly one ; nor that they now 
think themselves his equal. Such is not the de- 
sign of the Gospel : it will place all ranks of men 
in their just relation : it will make servants obe- 
dient and faithful, and masters kind and tender ; 
thus enabling every one to fulfil his relative du- 
ties in that station of life to which it has pleased 
God to call him. — The chapel was crowded to ex^ 
cess ; the attention of all was rivetted during the 
whole service ; and a solemn awe seemed to 
pervade every bosom, as though each one were 
saying to himself, “ Surely the Lord is in this 
place 
On the Lord’s Day following, I felt that I could 
no longer delay admitting the Kerikeri Christian 
natives to the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. 
They had been candidates for many months ; but 
I had deferred their admission from time to time, 
that I might be satisfied as to their walking con- 
sistently since their baptism. I, as well as their 
employers, have had every cause to be satisfied 
