Saxon race, was baptized more than twelve
hundred and fifty years ago by Augustine.

"In the enclosure round this font sat Kallihirua, and his 'chosen
witnesses' Captain Ommanney, and the Subwarden, Mrs. Bailey, and Mrs.
Gell. The remainder of the church was quite filled with an attentive
and apparently deeply-interested congregation, many of them of the
poorer class to whom Kalli is well known either by face (as indeed he
could not well fail to be), or as the comrade of their children in the
spelling-class at school.

"After the Second Lesson, the Warden proceeded to the font, and the
Baptismal Service commenced. Kallihirua, as an adult, made the
responses for himself, and in a clear firm tone, which seemed to
intimate that he had made his choice for once and for ever, that he
had cast in his lot with us, and taken our people for his people, and
our God for his God, and felt with an intelligent appreciation the
privilege of that new brotherhood into which he was admitted.

"May his admission within the pale of Christ's holy Church be, (as was
the prayer of many, beyond the walls of St. Martin's, on that day,)
both to himself and to many of his race, an event pregnant of eternal
issues! 'May the fulness of God's blessing,' to use the words of one
of our most valued friends, 'rest upon it, and make it the first
streak of a clear and steady light, shining from St. Augustine's into
the far North.' The Christian names added to his original Esquimaux
name, were 'Erasmus,' after Captain Ommanney, and 'Augustine,' in
remembrance of the College.

"The service being concluded, an excellent sermon was preached by the
Rev. J. P. Gell, on the text, Isaiah lxv. 1: 'I am sought of them that
asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said,
Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.'
Afterwards the same kind friend attended our Sunday evening meeting in
the Warden's house, and gave us some interesting details of the
missionary work (in which he had himself borne a part) in Van Diemen's
Land. The drift of his remarks was to give encouragement to the
principle of steady faithful persevering energy, undamped by early
difficulties, and not impatient of the day of small things; and to
show by convincing examples (especially that of Mr. Davis, a devoted
missionary in that country) how such conduct is sure in the end to
meet with a success of the soundest and most permanent kind, because
founded o