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LETTER IX. 
Sir, Mr. Davis — Thoug*h I am here, and you are there, 
very near me, I have not had many thoughts about the 
conversation I had with you. I have not gone back- 
wards and forwards very often to you, to talk about the 
things of God, because the heart within me is evil, and 
I have no thoughts towards Him. I am only evil — I am 
altogether sin. Sin is in my head — and sin is in my 
heart. The works — the words — the thoughts — the all 
things in my mind, are sin. And I love lying words 
more than truth. I cannot help sometimes crying at 
the sinfulness of my heart against God ; and because my 
heart is inclined to teaze the Saviour every day, and not 
to do His bidding. Do you remember telling me, in the 
blacksmith^s shop, when you and Mr. Clarke were making 
the plough, and when Pompey was kicking, in the yard, 
that my heart was more stubborn than that horse^s? I 
was angry then, and I thought Mr. Davis tells lies ; — but 
no, it is true : I am stubborn to my teachers ; I am 
stubborn with God ; I am stubborn to do evil ; I am 
deaf to good : how shall I escape the anger of God, for 
the evil of my heart ! 1 am not able to write ; for I have 
no thoughts towards Jesus Christ; my thoughts turn 
more towards the father of lies. Will you not pray, that 
Jesus would pour out His Holy Spirit upon me, that I 
may watch, and pray, and believe, altogether believe, 
and have belief fastened in my heart. I wish to sit in 
peace with men ; I wish to do the bidding of God ; I 
desire to be made a true believer, by God's Spirit. Will 
you say to Mr. Yate, to let me enter the Church, and be 
baptized. 
No more writing from Warerau, at Torangatira, to 
Mr. Davis, and to all the Missionaries at Waimate. By 
