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will make his heart glad in England.^^ Truly, indeed, 
very great is the love we all have for you : and all the 
Waimate says, they will go to England to see Mr. Yate, 
and to look once again, only once, upon his face. — Mr. 
Yate, are you well? and are the children, that you took 
with you, well ? We were very jealous at the rising of a 
great wind, a few days after you left here : we said, “ Oh 
the great waves upon the great sea — we thought of the 
rocking of the vessel upon the sea ; and said, “ They are 
all sick — they are all overturned — they are all gone to 
the bottom of the sea Are you well ? and have you 
overcome your sickness ? And have you as yet escaped 
the great many evils of this world in which we live ? 
Great is our love for you : do you make haste back 
again, and make our hearts run over with gladness. 
Perhaps you will not return very soon ; and when you 
come, you will cry over the many that are consumed by 
death, or that are pained by sickness. This is all from 
your boy, from Ngapuhi. 
LETTER XXVI. 
SARAH \VATKINS WARU TO THE REV. W. YATE ; 
FROM THE WAIMATE, NOV. 1834. 
To Mr. Yate — Sir, Mr. Yate, how do you do — you, 
who permitted us to enter the Church of Christ ? This is 
the thing. Sir — if, from our baptism, we walk uprightly 
before you, then the words of God will spring up within 
us : for you desire us to live as in the presence of God. 
But I am writing to you that you may hear my thoughts. 
If the grace of God should cause us, the evil, the deaf, 
the hard-hearted people, to hear and obey the callings of 
God, then all will be well ; but we are more inclined to 
listen to evil than to good : perhaps this is the reason, 
perhaps it is not, that we have not in truth received the 
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