298 OBITUARY OF ANN WAIAPU, 
thought them to be, but the forerunners of 
mercy; — they drove him to the cross of Christ, 
where he found pardon for all his sins, and balm 
for the deepest and most painful wounds of his 
soul. His conduct answered to his professions ; 
and he, together witli his wife, who had at 
length learned a salutary lesson in the afflicting 
and liumbling school of Christ, made a public 
confession of faith, being both baptized on Sun- 
day the 26th August, 1830. The convictions of 
sin in tlie mind of his wife had been very gradual : 
it was only as she discovered the fallacy, one 
by one, of lier native superstitious observances, 
that she gave them up, and embraced the doc- 
trines of the Gospel. With the truth as it is in 
Jesus she was, verbally, well acquainted ; and 
when she experienced its power in her heart, 
she found the benefit resulting from that ac- 
quaintance. 
Always of a delicate constitution, the birth of 
her second child confirmed a disorder, the sym- 
ptoms of wliich had before frequently made their 
appearance, and had been cause of much anxiety 
to the friends with whom she was living. Her 
disorder was consumption, to which the New 
Zealanders are very subject. Flattered, as per- 
sons labouring under this complaint frequently 
are, with moments of ease and comparative health, 
she had scarcely a thought that she was so soon 
to be removed from this world of sorrow and suf- 
fering, to the world of eternal happiness and joy. 
