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said the dying Missionary, ‘Hhat my conviction of the 
truth of those doctrines I have taught, is now stronger 
than ever. Tell them I am dying, but that these truths 
are now my support. Tell them to be stedfast.’’ He 
left, not only a destitute church and afflicted congrega¬ 
tion, but a sorrowing widow and five fatherless children, 
to mourn his departure. Mrs. Bicknell was afterwards 
united in marriage with Mr. Davies, but she did not long 
survive, and the children are now orphans in Tahiti. 
Mr. Caw, who had been sent out to instruct the natives 
in ship-building, and other arts, but who had been long 
incapacitated by illness, died about the same time. 
