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hood within the sound of the mission bells, and familiar 
with the inside of its church, he will tell you an extra¬ 
ordinary story regarding his ideas of the meanings of 
religious ceremonies. 
Were you to build an immense church, with a spire as 
high as that of Canterbury Cathedral, the only effect 
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 
would be that the people would worship the spire. They 
would have little or nothing to do with the words of 
sacred teaching. Crucifixes, pictures, and all such aids 
to the fervour of devotional life, are only looked upon as 
fetich. The superstition of the people seems to be in¬ 
eradicable ; and at Tette this is especially noticeable, 
owing to the mixed character of its population ; the dis¬ 
tributing influence of the slave trade having given great 
