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262 ANOTHER MM£L FRO3& MISS RYE.
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blue that nig and ht bro - — wn Romanists shirted , crew Churchmen , bare-footed ,, and men Dissenters with - curious ; --such peerin a motley g eyes , red , a ,
¦ strange whether , mixture they were of glad shy or and sorry cynical for my faces advent , looking on the as main if scarcel deck y . decided I
suppose I looked a little frightened , for by-and-bye one maiicame _; up a little we close began and said ( they , sang We ' re cap a itall funny y ) , lot and , Miss after R prayers ye , but and were we won then over 't retired hurt I read you part . There " So of
was Spurgeon no response ' s sermon to my on " " I Good , if X be nig lifted ht , " so up I , " left & c , uncertain about my . recephad tion ; happened next day to I heard ' em since that one they man came had on saidj board a 'Twas ; " and the all best agreed thing that that ;
time they hoped and after I'd come the second again . Sunday So I went gave the them following a sermon Sunday out , of true my to own my regular I head reached , , spoken in the their without -end attendance of book the journ or that notes ey it , for was , and the p got leasant men quite were to to be so like with attentive my them -work ; and I before gave so six
times them a for ' good the weather loop-hole getting to escape too cold after to I stand had preached so long so some -late at or nig seven ht , I meet for sent them my , in ? ambassador nor knowing myself there to to be say was on that deck not as , at it unless was night real so , they and cold leasure was offered I thoug there their ht any sent it own other neither to sleep place good that ing to
if place I would , which come was all not would very likel be read y . To and my clean for p me in they the forecastle say at the s ( ri down atisfaction ght into time of the their , . and wildest The den at number ; the declining which rig of ht said to my time " join trust y congregation I after trusted " I heard the myself first varied afterwards few among from nights gave twenty them . ) I th preached em all to forty great away ,
some regularly up to the last , and a few hours before 1 ~ . left the ship the men sent me a very pretty letter , signe all d b not y them be in all vain , _- thanking for me for the my work
amongst them , which I know sh , I preached Cross I of had Christ not and been salvation long with by th grace em before , —indeed they it were bore fruit all on then the side and there of order —for
they were after my crossing men for the the line rest was of for the their voyage chap , lain and ! the Poor first fellows cheer ! they they ;
wonder were gave a at strange their , different rough , queer fates . lot You ; I did shall not often expect think to hear of this them history , and readinthe account ! With the
I knowand how I should like to see you g reading and women dan , , we cing writing held at , classes ni arithmetic ht every wind , and day and at work weather three alternatel o ' clock permitting , y _TBible every . lessons As day , a and on whole Sunday singing my ,
best women irls were very nice g ignorant , , we had and made frivolous very few wrong and self selections -opinionated , but . , the On
four board months g ship were is a When fine very place for reached study this ing very character coast we came , and near we were at h school to si all ht the the enoug
. we g The land , rocks and smell are hi the h flowering varied in shrubs colour , for rang miles _ing before from we red reached to a buff Cape brown Saunders ; but _*
they extreme are . all Gull covered g rock , with and foliage a kind of of , some broken kind -down , and barn are rock picturesque were the in most the boddnheads
and noticeable harbour before are finer we came of cours to the e they heads are ; , but as every I have y never says S yet y seen ey anything The to town equal of the Dunedin _scenery , lies from in a the valley Bar which to Port is Chalmers protected . from the sea by
Bay a broad ( where peninsula the extremes some nine of the or town ten miles lie ) to long the , running heads ; consequentl from Anderson y the ' s which inland round this
wooded peninsula approach and . to When Dunedin cut her I e tell is and b y th ou an ere th a by t thi of innumerable s piece sea , of gorges land run is , both with s rock beautiful y and littl well e
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262 Another Mm£L Fro3& Miss Rye.
262 _ANOTHER MM £ L FRO 3 _& MISS RYE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/46/
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