2.30 LETTERS FROM NATIVES, 
them to commit their ideas to writing. In pur- 
suance of tliis method, the Christian Natives, and 
those desirous of becoming Christians, have at 
different times, during the last four or five years, 
addressed Letters to me; which have accumu- 
lated at length to a somewhat bulky mass of cor- 
respondence. From these, as illustrative of the 
workings of natural feeling, and in no small de- 
gree, also, of the operations of Divine Grace, I 
liave selected a considerable variety. The trans- 
lation of them is made as close and literal as 
sense and English idiom would allow: they relate 
to the following subjects— Baptism, the Lord’s 
Supper, the Holy Scriptures, and the experience 
of the power of Religion on their hearts. One or 
two are added on perfectly general topics; and 
these are followed by a few more, sent after me 
since my leaving New Zealand for this country. 
The following refer principally to the desire of 
some of the Natives to be admitted by baptism 
into the Clu’istian Church. 
LETTER I. 
FROM WAHANGA, A MARRIED NATIVE LIVING IN MR, KEMP's 
FAMILY. 
Sir, Mr. Y ate — Listen to my speech to you. Great 
is my heart toward God, because He has taken care of 
me all my days, and has shown the greatest extent of 
love for me. It is good for me to be sanctified by Him, 
and, by being baptized, to be let go into His holy Church 
on earth ; in order that, when I die, I may be taken into 
His Church above in the heavens. 
