376 KEV. G. H. NOBL3'S LETTER. 
feared for their lives ; but it pleased oar hea- 
venly Father to spare them. The commander 
of the ship was most kind and attentive, and the 
ship was most comfortably fitted up ; in short, 
we were well cared for on board the Moray shire. 
" We are just now getting the houses, stores, 
cattle, &c. &c., transferred to us; which seems 
to be a work of time and routine. Some of our 
people are getting lessons in ploughing, sheep- 
shearing, milking, and corn-grinding; so that 
we are all very busy. The weather is so unfa- 
vourable that we have not yet got all our effects 
on shore, although every exertion has been made 
under the superintendence of acting Lieutenant 
Grcgorie, of H. M.S. Juno. 
" Last Sabbath was a day which will long be 
remembered by us ; it was our first meeting in 
the church for "public, worship. After the morn- 
ing service I administered the Holy Communion, 
and in the evening committed to the earth a 
premature ear from our gradually ripening sheaf. 
Think of us in the church which had formerly 
been filled with the vilest outcasts of society; 
and then imagine us in the graveyard, filled 
\rith the mounds which contained hundreds of 
their bodies ; and I am sure that you yri\\ enter 
largely into, and partake of, the intense grati- 
tude, joy, grief, and (I had almost /Said) terror, 
which pervaded our miiuky 
" I should like to su}<4jlpre jJ^ut I am so fully 
employed all the day, an3 I carnnot see to write 
by night ; so that, assuring y^a I will write 
more fully whenever I can do so, I shall end by 
wishing all whom you love, that best of all 
