3. Gnâ woě Yisu Kraisi yě? 4. Gnâ woe Yisu Kraisi yě? A kwa ǎnm mâh ti biyě, A ni ǎnm ǎ plě ble ne, Yisu kraisi â ne kanhka. 1. Who is like Jesus Christ? He came from Heaven to earth, To take all people away from devil, Jesus Christ is good. 2. Who is like Jesus Christ? Because he does us good; And he is our friend, 3. Who is like Jesus Christ? 4. Who is like Jesus Christ? HEAVEN. 1. Hěvěneh ěh mâ Gnĭsuah tedĕh; Hanh Enje pepländi nede; 2. Kbůně kuhkwih eh yede ne; Eh năh dide teděh něnu. 3. Gnono nede Gnisuah mâh 4. Bă nu Gnisuah winh tětinu, 1. Heaven is God's place, 2. Wickedness is not there, No palaver, no sickness there, No poor, no trouble there, And all these things cannot go the 3. Those that live to God See no palaver, but Their hearts will be glad always, 4. We must keep God's words now; And our hearts shall be glad much may be here remarked, that the conv thenism should never be judged by the sam rigid standard which we apply to the professor of religion in a Christian country. We must contemplate the one, at the period of his spiritual regeneration, as just emerging from the lowest depths of ignorance and superstition; while the other, at the same period, is standing upon the high ground of intellectual and moral advanceIn one, the habitual contact with vice, in its most debasing forms, has blunted, and nearly obliterated, the moral perception; while in the other, the opposite influences have imparted to it the highest degree of ment. acuteness. We do not marvel then, that the one should regard, as a small and venial fault, that which the more enlightened conscience would condemn as a flagrant sin. The first disciples of Christianity were converted Pagans, and the tone of warning and rebuke in which they are so often addressed by St. Paul, is as applicable now as it was then. CHAPTER VIII. Review of the year 1840-Dr. Savage's visit to the Leeward Coast-Mr. and Mrs. Payne return to the U. S.-Opening of Stations at Rockbookah and Taboo-Illustration of heathen superstition-Mr. and Mrs. Payne again embark for Africa with other missionaries-Death of Miss Coggleshall, -Biographical notice—Difficulties with natives. THE review of this year (1840) shows it to have been one of great prosperity. The number of pupils at the different stations now exceeded one hundred, all of whom, with few exceptions, had learned to read. Some of the more advanced had commenced the study of grammar, geography, and arithmetic, and four were employed as teachers and interpreters. But it was in the spiritual condition of the Schools, to which reference has been already made,. that the most animating encouragement was found. It was great cause of thankfulness also, that none of the missionaries had been removed by death. Mrs. Minor, though at one time so ill that her life was despaired of, had been mercifully restored. When her attendant physician had abandoned all hope of her recovery, and her sorrowing friends were gathered around her bed to witness her death, an unexpected change took place in her disease, and she was again permitted to resume her labors. 4* Dr. Savage had been induced, by the partial failure of his health, to try the effects of the sea air in a voyage to the Leeward Coast, in which direction it was deemed advisable to prosecute inquiries in reference to future stations; but had returned in a few months, quite restored. He had been unexpectedly detained on the Gold Coast, no vessel touching there, bound to Cape Palmas, until January, 1841. Much valuable information had, however, been acquired, and at Dix Cove, he had embraced an opportunity of performing missionary duty, by instructing a number of young men, and holding religious services. In April, 1841, the health of Mrs. Payne became so seriously impaired by her unremitted labors, that a sea voyage was deemed absolutely necessary for its restoration. Her husband, therefore, embarked with her for the United States, where, after four years absence, they arrived safely in July following. This year proved unusually unhealthy, and before its close, Mr. and Mrs. Perkins were also compelled to seek renewed strength in their native land, having previously tried an excursion to Sierra Leone, without effect. We have already referred to the causes which rendered it desirable to open a station without the boundaries of the colony, and to Mr. Minor's visit to Garraway, with a view to this object. The attempt having failed in that quarter, it was subsequently renewed in an opposite direction, and, in the autumn of 1841, Mr. Minor removed to Taboo, a point on the Leeward Coast about forty miles east of Cape Palmas. About the same time, the school for the children of the colonists was abandoned; |