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On another occasion, he says: "Towards the close of my discourse, a surprising power seemed to attend the Word. One man, considerably in years, who had been a remarkable drunkard, a conjurer, and murderer, who was awakened some months before, was now brought to great extremity, so that he trembled for hours together, and apprehended himself just dropping into hell, without any power to rescue or relieve himself. Divers others appeared under great concern, as well as he, and were solicitous to obtain a saving change."

Many, such as these, have learned that though they could do nothing to save themselves, the Lord Jesus Christ could and did save them.

WAUBON, THE RED INDIAN CHIEF, was dressed in a robe of marten-skins. It was fastened to his right shoulder, passed under his arm, and then wrapped around him. He stood forward in the presence of his Indian subjects, who like himself had been led to rejoice in the newly-found blessings of salvation by Christ, and with simple and natural imagery thus addressed their dear missionary John Eliot :

My heart laughs for joy on seeing myself before thee. We have all of us heard the word which thou hast sent us. How beautiful is the sun today! but lately it was red and angry, for our hands were stained with blood; our tomahawks thirsted

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for it; our women howled for the loss of their relations; at the least shriek of the birds of night all our warriors were on foot; and the serpents angrily hissed at us as we passed. Those we left behind sang the songs of death.

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"But now, our whole nation laughs for joy to see us walk on the same road with thyself, to join the Father of spirits. Our hearts shall make but Come with us to the forests; come to our homes by the great river. We shall plant the tree of life of which thou speakest there, and our warriors shall rest between its leaves; and thou shalt tell us more of that land where there is no storm or death, and the sun is always bright."

Such language from a chief, showed, in part, the blessed effects of the gospel on his tribe. But there were also chiefs whom their people had deserted, because of their adherence to the faith of Christ.

In such cases, the thirst for power and the habit of ruling were cheerfully yielded, and the chieftains descended from their rank to teach those who had before trembled at their nod. Hundreds there were, and thousands of the Red Indians, who, by a better life and conversation, gave certain proof that they were no longer cruel, revengeful tyrants at home, and merciless abroad. The change in their cases in a few years was mighty and beautiful.

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Not unfrequently do converts from heathen lands reach London, and there, in that great metropolis of the world, are found preaching Christ. Jesus and Him crucified. A few years ago, a convert from Parseeism, Rev. Hormondji Pestonji, was preaching the gospel in London with much power. He has since returned to India to make known the Lord Jesus and His redeeming grace to the Fire Worshippers of the Madras Presidency.

A PARSEE, Mr. Manekje Mody, of Bombay, was connected with a family of stanch Zoroastrians, or fire-worshippers. The loss of his young wife made him very unhappy, and for a time increased his devotion to Parseeism. He would read the Zendavesta ; then he gave money to priests and fire-temples, and for rites for the dead; then, for eighteen months, he visited Parsee sepulchres, where the dead are exposed to be devoured by vultures; but these observances did not remove darkness from his spirit or misery from his heart.

Under the preaching of Rev. W. Taylor, of California, he was deeply convinced of sin; of the futility of all religious observances; and was then led to faith in Christ, and consequent peace with God. Then came the cross. When he abjured the faith of his fathers, his friends and relatives were filled with fury. He was cut off, as one dead, from his social circle, yet Christian friends welcomed him. He came to England; studied the way of God more