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are destroyed. Often have I seen a gun-barrel, 
or other iron weapon, that has been carried to the 
forge, committed to the fire, laid upon the anvil, 
and beaten, not exactly into a plough-share or a 
pruning-hook, (for the vine does not stretch its 
luxuriant branches along the sides of their sunny 
hills,) but beaten into an implement of husbandry, 
and used by its proprietor in the culture of his 
plantation or his garden. Their weapons of wood 
also have often been employed as handles for their 
tools ; and their implements of war have been con¬ 
verted with promptitude into the furniture of the 
earthly sanctuary of the Prince of peace. The 
last pulpit I ascended in the South Sea Islands 
was at Rurutu. I had ministered to a large con¬ 
gregation, in a spacious and well-built chapel, of 
native architecture, over which the natives con¬ 
ducted me at the close of the service. The 
floor was boarded, and a considerable portion of 
the interior space fitted up with seats or forms. 
The pulpit was firmly, though rudely constructed ; 
the stairs that led to it were guarded by rails, sur¬ 
mounted by a bannister of mahogany-coloured 
tamanu wood; the rails were of dark aito wood, 
and highly polished. I asked my companions 
where they had procured these rails; and they 
replied, that they had made them with the handles 
of warriors’ spears! 
Our friends from the Windward Islands, who 
were with us when the disturbance at Huahine 
occurred, had been with us a month, when Pomare’s 
vessel called at Huahine, on her way from New 
South Wales to Tahiti. Circumstances requiring, 
that as many of the Missionaries in the Leeward 
Islands as could leave their stations should meet 
those of the Windward group, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
