Part 31 (2/2)

_Wife_ But he no hear what you say?

_WA_ Yes, he has bid us pray to him; and promised to hear us

_Wife_ Bid you pray? When he bid you? How he bid you? What you hear him speak?

_WA_ No, we do not hear him speak; but he has revealed hireat loss to make her understand that God had revealed himself to us by his word; and what his as; but at last he told it her thus:]

_WA_ God has spoken to soood men in former days, even froood men by his Spirit; and they have written all his lan in a book

_Wife_ Me no understand that: where is book?

_WA_ Alas! my poor creature, I have not this book; but I hope I shall, one tiet it for you to read it

[Here he erief, that he had not a Bible]

_Wife_ But how you makee me know that God teachee them to write that book?

_WA_ By the same rule that we know him to be God

_Wife_ What rule? ay you know?

_WA_ Because he teaches and cohteous, and holy, and tends to ood, as well as perfectly happy; and because he forbids, and commands us to avoid, all that is wicked, that is evil in itself, or evil in its consequences

_Wife_ That ood thing, punish all wicked thing, he teachee all good thing, forbid all wicked thing, he ; he hear o to do just now; he ood; he spare ood; all this you say he do: yes, he be great God; reat God; me say O to him too with you, er; but, raising her up, made her kneel by him; and he prayed to God aloud to instruct her in the knowledge of hiood providence, if possible, she ht read the word of God, and be taught by him to know him

[This was the time thathim lift her up by the hand, and saw him kneel down by her, as above]

They had several other discourses, it see to set down here; and particularly she made him promise, that, since he confessed his own life had been a wicked, aboainst God, he would reforry any more, lest he should make him dead, as she called it, and then she should be left alone, and never be taught to know this God better; and lest he should be miserable, as he told her wicked e account, and very affecting to us both, but particularly the young clergyman; he was indeed wonderfully surprised with it; but under the greatest affliction iinable that he could not talk to her; that he could not speak English to lish he could not understand her

However, he turned himself to me, and told me, that he believed there must be more to do with this woman than to th he explained hireed with hi about it presently: ”No, no; hold, Sir,” said he; ”though I would have her baptized by all means, yet I ht her, in a wonderful iven her just ideas of the being of a God, of his power, justice, andto her of Jesus Christ, and of the salvation of sinners; of the nature of faith in him, and the redemption by hiain, and asked him; but the poor fellow fell i to her of all those things, but that he was himself so wicked a creature, and his own conscience so reproached him with his horrid, unGodly life, that he tree of his, and ion than receive it: but he was assured, he said, that her mind was so disposed to receive due is, that, if I would but discourse with her, she would make it appear to my satisfaction that ly I called her in, and placing ious priest and the woin with her

But sure such a seres of the world: and, as I told hie, all the sincerity of a Christian, without the errors of a Royman as the Roman bishops were before the church of Ronty over the consciences of ht the poor woe of Christ, and of redemption by him, not onder and astonishment only, as she did the first notions of a God, but with joy and faith, with an affection, and a surprising degree of understanding, scarce to be iined, much less to be expressed; and at her own request she was baptized

When he was preparing to baptize her, I entreated him that he would perforht not perceive he was of the Roman church, if possible; because of other ill consequences which ion which ere instructing the other in He told s for the office, I should see he would do it in a manner that I should not know by it that he was a Roman Catholic hi only some words over to himself in Latin, which I could not understand, he poured a whole dishfull of water upon the wo in French very loud _Mary_ (which was the naive her, for I was her Godfather,) _I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost_; so that none could know any thing by it what religion he was of: he gave the benediction afterwards in Latin; but either Will Atkins did not know but it was in French, or else did not take notice of it at that time

As soon as this was over, he e was over, he turned himself to Will Atkins, and in a very affectionate ood disposition he was in, but to support the convictions that were upon him by a resolution to reform his life; told him it was in vain to say he repented if he did not forsake his cri the instrue of the Christian religion; and that he should be careful he did not dishonour the grace of God; and that if he did, he would see the heathen a better Christian than hie converted, and the instrus to them both, and then recoave the to thelish: and thus ended the cerereeable day to y continually upon the conversion of the thirty-seven savages, and fain he would have staid upon the island to have undertaken it; but I convinced hi was impracticable in itself; and secondly, that, perhaps, I could put it into a way of being done, in his absence, to his satisfaction; of which by and by

Having thus brought the affair of the island to a narrow coo on board the shi+p when the young man, whom I had taken out of the famished shi+p's coylishes whom they called wives; that he had a ht be finished before I went, between two Christians, which he hoped would not be disagreeable towoman as his mother's servant, for there was no other Christian woan to persuade hi of that kind rashly, or because he found himself in this solitary circumstance I represented that he had soood friends, as I understood by himself, and by his maid also; that the maid was not only poor, and a servant, but was unequal to hi twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, and he not above seventeen or eighteen; that he ht very probably, with my assistance, make a reain, and that then it would be a thousand to one but he would repent his choice, and the dislike of that circu to say reat deal ofof that kind in his thoughts, his present circuh; and he was very glad to hear that I had so the should have set hi was so exceeding long and hazardous, and would carry him quite out of the reach of all his friends; that he had nothing to desire of me, but that I would settle hiive him a servant or two, and some few necessaries, and he would settle hiood tiland, I would redeem him, and hoped I would not be unive me soood I had been to him, and what part of the world, and what circumstances I had left him in; and he promised me, that whenever I redeemed him, the plantation, and all the improvements he had made upon it, let the value be what it would, should be wholly mine

His discourse was very prettily delivered, considering his youth, and was the reeable to me, because he told ave him all possible assurances, that, if I lived to coland, I would deliver his letters, and do his business effectually, and that he et the circumstances I left him in But still I was impatient to knoas the person to be married; upon which he told me it was my Jack of all Trades and his maid Susan