exemplary patience and unflinching courage, he
persevered in his course, with an energy worthy of the cause. In his
corporeal capacity, to judge from his appearance, he was ill calculated
to sustain the continual exertions incumbent on his vocation; and yet
he performed them with an alacrity truly surprising. He was of the
middle height; rather slim in figure, apparently delicate in his
constitution, fair complexioned; and a bachelor of about thirty-five
years of age. He had refused various solicitations from congregations,
to accept of a residentiary charge, and had devoted himself to the
missionary's work, where the presence of a spiritual teacher was much
wanted.

He had perceived that hundreds upon hundreds of square miles in the
bush, in fact almost all the country districts, were destitute of a
ministry of any creed or denomination; and he had, with an earnest zeal
and devoted piety, undertaken the task of administering to the spiritual
wants of the bushmen. Never since the days of the old apostles, had a
work of such magnitude been attempted by a single-handed man; and any
heart less stout, or enthusiasm less genuine, than that of the Rev. Mr.
Wigton, would have speedily sank under a load of mortification, at the
difficulties that beset his path. In a country where the Sabbath is
almost entirely forgotten; where on that sacred day the country stores
exhibit their wares for sale, and the public-houses resound with the
shouts of drunken revelry; where the servant is frequently punished, for
refusing to obey his master's commands to its desecration; where
blasphemy and sacrilege, in which master vies with man, is constantly
heard; and where ignorance and vice stalk triumphant through the
land,--some conception may be formed of the stupendous nature of the
reform to be effected.

Thanks to such as this messenger of peace, much good has now been
accomplished. Bad as it is, the Sabbath is better observed than
formerly, not only in the townships but on the stations; and depravity
is on the wane. But, at the time of which we write, the state of moral
darkness was as great as any heathenism extant. To the work of
enlightenment, had Mr. Wigton sanctified himself; and his name had
already become revered, in many places in the solitude of the bush,
where he had been the instrument of bringing grace to his benighted
countrymen. At the same time, he had not neglected the case of the
black. He had with considerable difficult