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sought us to sit down and repeat several of the truths 
they had heard respecting the name and attributes of 
Jehovah, his law, and the name and offices of Jesus 
Christ the only Saviour. They also requested to be 
more particularly informed in what manner they should 
pray to him, and how they should know when the 
Sabbath-day came. We told them to go to Jehovah 
in prayer, as a child went to its parents, assuring them 
they would find him more ready to attend to them, than 
the fondest earthly parent was to listen to his most 
beloved child. This did not satisfy them; we, there¬ 
fore, after observing that God did not regard so much 
the words , as the desires of the heart, mentioned several 
expressions of praise, confession, and petition—which 
the natives repeated after us till they could recite them 
correctly. The chief then sent for a youth, about six¬ 
teen years of age, of whom he seemed very fond, and 
after he and his wife had requested him to attend very 
particularly to what he should hear, they requested us 
to repeat to him what we had told them. We did so; 
the youth evidently tried to treasure up the words in 
his memory ; and when he could repeat correctly what 
had been told him, the parents appeared highly pleased. 
Indeed, the greater part of the people seemed to regard 
the tidings of ora roa ia Jesu, (endless life by Jesus,) 
as the most joyful news they had ever heard ; “ break¬ 
ing upon them,” to ;use the expressions of the natives 
on another occasion, “ like light in the morning.” The 
chief’s wife in particular exclaimed aloud, “ Will my 
spirit never die ? and can this poor weak body live 
again ?” When we departed, she rose up, and, by the 
help of two sticks, walked down to the beach with us. 
Here we took an affectionate leave, and then stepped 
