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only twenty-three Christians emong 204 heathen. These,
under the late delusion, rose, burnt down the church, and
since then made the lives of the Christians a burden to them.
This man has an unconverted grown-up son, who begged his
father to give him some money to pay the fees of graduating
in some heathen mysteries. In a weak moment the father
acceded. So deep was his sorrow that he came all the way
here for counsel. He confessed his sin; and so deep was d
his emotion and distress that he suddenly dropped on his Hine
knees, and continued some time in silent and apparently

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As he rose from his knees I took his cold and trembling hand We
and assured him that God had put away his sin. ‘I have a
prayed so long for pardon,’ he said, ‘ that my whole body is Wie
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round the fire when the intoxicating cup was passed on. To
avoid singularity and to conceal his scruples, he put the cup
to his lips without drinking. ‘I was a coward,’ he said to
me, “and twice I have encouraged sin by my weakness, ané
helped the devil; but I feel happier now that I have told
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“Such was his simple story—the outcome of a sincere
heart, self-tortured as well as sorely tempted.

“To me it is a great delight to perceive any signs of con-
science at all amore the Heathen ; and when it does appear,
great tenderness and skill are needful to train it by gradually
forming a right judgment as its groundwork. How many
things we ought to lay before God!

“JT commend my work to you, and beg your prayers. Next
July I hope to attend the Lambeth Conference of Bishops,
after which I shall try to raise some money towards the
support of the many interests I am bound to uphold.”

Journeyings such as those described in the last letter are
not without their perils, and on February 25, 1888, the Bishop
had to send the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel