SAMUEL MARSDEN. 
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seemed to respond with all his heart, and then the drop 
fell, he was a Roman Catholic, and I believe his name was 
O'Donohu, a notorious bush-ranger. 
Mr. Marsden was wont to remark, that the Lord had 
manifested His wonderful power in the infant colony by 
gathering from the vilest scum of the earth a people for 
himself ; and he might have added, and making that people, 
so opportunely raised up in the Australian wilderness, the 
grand point d’ctjopui of all the Polynesian Missions, which 
could not have existed without a colony there, to furnish 
supplies and aid in all their necessities. 
Few persons have received more praise or abuse than 
Mr. Marsden ; his enemies were many and bitter ; they 
accused him of penuriousness, and a sordid desire of gaining 
money, and yet few kept so hospitable a house, or knew 
so little of his own affairs as he did ; one of his daughters 
related to me a circumstance, which she witnessed : — A gen- 
tleman called one day, and said, he came to repay the money 
he had borrowed of him many years before. Mr. Marsden 
said, you must make a mistake, I am not aware yo~ 'wve me 
anything. 0 ! said the gentleman, I am not mistaken, it w^s 
when I first landed on these shores an indigent youth, that you 
most liberally advanced me a hundred pounds, to set me up 
in trade ; and by God's blessing, that laid the foundation 
of my prosperity, I am now a rich man ; and here are your 
hundred pounds, with interest and my grateful thanks for 
your disinterested kindness ; in vain Mr. Marsden refused, 
he was compelled to take both. Miss Marsden was present 
on that occasion; but there were doubtless many similar 
ones which never will be known until that day when all things 
shall be revealed. 
When Dr. Lang was building the first Presbyterian church 
in Sydney, and could not proceed for want of funds, what did 
this Catholic-minded man do ? he was the senior chaplain of 
the colony, and at that time without a rival creed ; did he 
view with jealousy this inroad on his own peculiar province, 
and rejoice that the church could not be finished ? Ho : 
unsolicited, he wrote to the Presbyterian minister, offered 
