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LETTERS FROM NATIVES, 
LETTER III. 
FROM UNAHANGA, A YOUNG MAN LIVING WITH ME. 
Sir, Mr.Yate — My heart is desirous of being permitted 
to enter the Church of Jesus Christ. I wish altogether 
to turn to our Father which is in heaven, and to cast 
away all the evil-speaking of this world, and the evil- 
acting. I am thinking inside me what can be the reason 
I have two hearts, which are always struggling, one 
with the other. The one is a very good heart ; the other 
altogether bad. I am wondering which will be thrown 
down, and put undermost at last — perhaps the good one ; 
perhaps the bad one. Oh, how they fight! Will you 
baptize me, or will you not ? As I have two hearts, 
perhaps you will not ; and, perhaps, you will. 
My writing to you this tim6 is finished. 
From me, from your son, 
Unahanga. 
LETTER IV. 
FROM HONGI, A MARRIED NATIVE, LIVING WITH MR. CLARKE. 
[He has been with him upwards of six years.] 
Sir, Mr. Y ate — Listen to my thoughts. I am seeking a 
heart for the good things of God. I have heard with my 
ears His glad words, but I am not able to make myself 
His child, because I struggle so for sin. We have all 
heard his good news out of His Book. They are good, 
and gracious, and loving words ; and are signs from the 
Holy Spirit, to guide the spirit of man. When I think 
upon the writing, my heart is glad within me: when 
they are fixed in my soul, joy wakes me in the very 
middle of the night, to think about it. How are your 
thoughts toward us ? Are they as they were ? If they 
