OBITUARY OF ANN WAIAPU. 
and to set lier spirit at liberty, to take its willing 
flight to everlasting glory. 
Since tlie death of poor Ann, her infant son has 
joined her, having imbibed from his mother s 
breasts the disease which carried her off. She 
could not be persuaded to wean her child ; and 
the effects were soon visible in its constitution. 
Her surviving daughter is under the care of Mrs. 
Kemp; and will be brought up by her in that 
holy religion, whose ways, from the experience 
of the lamented motlier, have been proved to be 
pleasantness and peace.” 
May not tlie reader of these pages, as well as 
the author of tliem, reviewing the improvements 
already in progress, and tlie spiritual blessings 
actually enjoyed in New Zealand, be encouraged 
to believe that tlie time is not far distant, when 
that nation will be acknowledged as a Christian 
nation ; and when all the blessings of Christianity 
will be spread over the whole country; — when 
wise and salutary laws, based upon the Law of 
God, will be instituted, and universally regarded? 
That there is such a day fast approaching, I can- 
not doubt ; for it is the subject of sure prophecy, 
in the volume of Divine Truth. Some may deny 
it ; — others may ridicule the idea ; — but the day 
will come, when “ every knee shall bow, and every 
tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the 
