gh renunciation of their old superstitions, and as to their
present faith in Christ, were then and there baptized.

"At the afternoon service several more were baptized; among them an old
man, perhaps seventy years of age, with his wife and grandchild. He had
never been inside a Christian sanctuary before. He had just arrived
from the vast interior eastward of this place, the country I visited
under so many difficulties last April.

"The old man brought down with him the Bible and hymn-book which I had
given him months ago. He stated that although he could not read them
very well, yet he kept them close to him by day, and under his pillow by
night, and tried to keep in his memory all he had heard of what was
written in them, as I had told him.

"I have been teaching the school myself for months, as my faithful
teacher, Timothy Bear, is poorly. Among the scholars I have none more
attentive than the old man and his wife. Seated on the ground with the
Reverend James Evans' Syllabic Characters marked out with a pen on a
piece of paper in their hands, and the open Bible on the grass before
them, they are striving hard to read fluently in their own language the
wonderful works of God.

"If this old man had presented himself for baptism a little better
clothed, we should have been pleased. All he had on was a dirty cotton
shirt and a pair of deer-skin leggings. However, as such fashions occur
here, his appearance created no remark, but all were deeply moved at his
coming forward and so emphatically renouncing his old paganism.

"The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper on the same day was also a service
of great interest, as several new members, baptized a few months ago,
were admitted to the Lord's Table for the first time. In two instances
the decided stand for Christ taken by the women has led to the
conversion of their husbands. Until lately they were careless, reckless
men; but they have now come and declared that they are convinced that
the religion of their wives is better than the old, and they desire to
have it too. Thus the work goes on; but how slowly! When shall the
time arrive when `nations shall be born in a day'? Haste, happy day!"

"We are toiling through the darkness, but our eyes behold the light
That is mounting up the eastern sky and beating back the night.
Soon with joy we'll hail the morning when our Lord will come in might,
For Truth is marching on.

"He will come in glorious majes