110 ADAMS'S SEEVICES IN THE CAUSE 
instructed the young people about him in 
the fear of God. He prayed for them, and 
for himself. He observed the rules of the 
Church of England, always had morning and 
evening prayers, and taught the children the 
Collects, and other portions of the Prayer 
Book, beginning with the Lord's Prayer, 
and the Apostles' Creed. He was afterwards 
very fond of reading a book published by the 
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 
entitled, " The Knowledge and Practice of 
Christianity ; an Instruction for the Indians. 
By the Eight Rev. Dr. Wilson, Bishop of Sodor 
and Man." His youthful pupils took such 
delight in his instructions, that, on one occa- 
sion, on his offering to two of the lads, Arthur 
Quintal and Robert Young, some compensa- 
tion for their labour in preparing ground for 
planting yams, they proposed, that, instead of 
his giving the present held out to them, con- 
sisting of a small quantity of gunpowder, he 
should teach them some extra lessons out of 
the Bible ; a request with which he joyfully 
complied. 
Adams was no ordinary man, or he could 
never have accomplished the arduous task 
