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Missionaries

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
November
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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I In a recent addrers before t!o Amoncan Tnstitute of Scicnco, Cnptnin Wilkrs, ofthe exploring expedition spokc in high iermá of thc cliaracter of Ue Missíonáfiea in the Pacific Ocean, whose etalions ho had visited. - In apealting of their sitnation ho said: "We can scarccly conecive tlio hardshij) to which thc missionaries ave exposed, and thc moral courage which ís required to support íhem in their vnrious iriaís. I will relato bút ene instance. It oceurred nt thc Pejee froují . Ahout ten days before iny arrival, U:cre bía been a feast of bumnn victims. The missionaries had ueed their utn-ost eíTorts to dispnarle thc natives fróni trie inhun.an practice; bul iheir yodng hing replied, jou have your reüfrion, and we have ours," ond persisted in celebra tin? the oppointcd fcast. When {he roastinjr ofthe human bodics bogan, a slonch aróse, which for loatlsomeness can bé.compared to no other, Tt can nevrr be mistaken by one whg, has ever been exRQsea to íf. _ ít soon beca me intolerable; and thc missionavies, to'excftdo ibfrom their rooms wore compclled to cIofo tho Windows, Whrn the fcast wtia over, thc youngr ki"? cpme tfl i!je rnisp'ionaries, [Mr. Hunt.] and demanded íidmiltunce. He was pormitted to enter, and he enqtiired whv (he Windows had been dosed chmn? thecelebralion f tho fenst; When Mr. Ilunt cxplainfd, the your.r killer hls físt angrily ín liisfice, replied- i:Tf overyou do it Bgain, WB wilt kat tou!" This was rclatcd (o me by the missionnries ihemsslves, anti I havenn'doubt of the trnth of it. Such is but n snmple of the trials tho misipnüne8 have to rndnro. I callci upon the kin, ai:d obt'ained for tlie missioneries ns much kn;l na they needed bevond Ihe villagè, v;hcro they wil] in future be free from tho stonch of the disgusiiiiy fi.abia, ohoukl they still be conünucd.''

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