lieving. Under the pressure of extreme bodily pain, she seemed frequently to be restored to ease and quiet when portions of Scripture and hymns were read to her. She took great delight in repeating, "Jesus lover of my soul," &c.

and the bright evidence she enjoyed of her acceptance, and the earnest desire she felt to be with Jesus, never abated to the last moment. We have been favored with another instance of the value of Sunday-School instruction, which will not soon be forgotten.'

I am sure some of your readers will feel that this interesting fact urges to duty while we have opportunity; and inay I not add, that if, like my friend, we can go to our work in the spirit of prayer and love to souls, we may sow in hope, and wait for the early and latter rain, believing that even that which looks most unpromising and barren, may yet be as a garden which the Lord has blessed. Praying that you and your fellow-labourers may enjoy many tokens of the gracious presence of our God,

I remain, my dear Sir,

Your affectionate Friend,

J. N. C.

P. S. I just add, that my friend and his friend are not Clergy men; and I do this to excite persons in more obscure stations to assist in extending the kingdom of our Redeemer.

MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.

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renounced their idols, and built a large chapel. The circumstances of this change were peculiar. Some time ago a vessel belonging to Raiatea, with five natives on board, had been sent on an errand to us at Tahiti; but since the time when they had set sail on their return, no intelligence concerning them had ever reached the relatives of the small crew. The con

clusion was that they must have perished at sea. To-day, as a canoe approached our vessel, we observed that the rowers, especially the helmsman, exhibited tokens of the highest delight at the view of our ship. When they came on board, the helmsman was immediately recognized, and he and his companions proved to be the very crew of the missing boat from Raiatea. They said that, on their return from Tahiti, being off Eimeo, night came on, when they furled their sails, and went to sleep in fearless security, leaving the boat to the mercy of the waves till morning, expecting then to be able, as usual, to direct their

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course homeward by known sea marks. awoke, however, they found themselves involved in a thick fog, which turning to pouring rain, was followed by a violent wind that drove them utterly beyond their reckoning. Six weeks were they floating, they knew not wither, on the pathless and fathomless deep, in which at length there was no other prospect but that they must perish; yet their faith never failed, and the simplicity as well as the strength of that faith was very striking, for when we asked them if, in their forlorn situation, they did not expect to perish of famine, or to be drowned in the ocean, they replied,

Oh no! for we prayed to God! When first carried away, they had with them a quantity of vi-apples,

cocoa-nuts, bananas, a little water, and two bamboos (about a gallon and a half) of cocoa-nut oil. On these, by taking only a small portion twice a day, they subsisted five weeks, when the solid food being exhausted, and every drop of water long ago spent, they preserved life by dipping a few fibres of the cocoa-nut husk in the oil, which they sucked to slacken their thirst, and for nourishment. Thus, morning, noon, and night, as long as they were able, they worked at their oars, prayed and sang; they read the Scriptures as the daily bread of their souls, and duly remembered the Sabbaths. It was very affecting to hear one of them say how, amidst the roaring of the sea, they sang till their voices went away.' Yes, truly, but it was into heaven that their voices went away, as those of the angels who sang, "Glory to God in the highest," at the nativity of the Redeemer :-their prayers of faith, and their songs of thanksgiving were heard before the throne, even when their lips had no longer power to utter them,-and they were answered by deliverance. At the end of six weeks they were drifted by the waves on which they had been borne near the island of Atui, where some of the natives found them worn to skeletons with hunger, and strengthless with fatigue, but "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation." By these they were fed and nursed. After they had gradually recovered, they preached the Gospel with such power, that the remaining half of the population, till then unconverted, believed and cast away their idols.-How strikingly does this narrative illustrate the wonderful ways of God. Surely His thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor His ways as our ways.-Bennett and Tyerman's Journal.