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should be substituted, as grounds of confidence, 
for an experience of the influence of those doc- 
trines on the heart. Their names only were 
entered in a book kept by the Missionaries for that 
purpose, and called the Church-book. This little 
meeting was held in the chapel at Fare, on Friday 
evening, the 5th of May, 1820: and it is hoped 
that what was done on earth among the dis- 
ciples of Christ below, though it may be dissolved 
by death, will be realized in his presence above, 
and endure through eternity. 
On the following Sabbath, May the 7th, an un- 
usual number attended the large place of worship. 
Mr. Davies preached in the forenoon, from Luke 
xxi. 19. In front of the pulpit, a neat table, 
covered with white native cloth, was fixed, upon 
which the sacramental vessels were placed. These 
had been furnished from England. Wheaten 
bread was an article of diet that we did not very 
often obtain ourselves, and which the people sel- 
dom tasted : we should have preferred it for this 
ordinance, yet, as we could not, from the irregu- 
larity and uncertainty of our supplies at that 
period, expect always to have it, we deemed it 
better to employ an article of food as nearly 
resembling it as possible, and which was at all 
times procurable. From these considerations, we 
felt no hesitation in using, on this occasion, the 
roasted or baked bread-fruit, pieces of which were 
placed on the proper vessel. 
Wine, we were also thankful to possess for this 
purpose; and although we have sometimes been 
apprehensive that we might be under the necessity 
of substituting the juice of the cocoa-nut for that 
of the grape, or discontinuing the observance of 
this ordinance, (to which latter painful alternative, 
