Page:Voyages and travels of a Bible.pdf/19

 the grave, but they had no occasion for them now. On this, Teito held me up, when I took the opportunity to eallcall [sic] out— ‘Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.’—‘Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.’ On this they put their fingers in their ears, and ran off. On which I called after them—‘Who hath believed our report? to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?’ Some of my words spoken at this time made a deep impression on the minds of several; as they afterwards eonfessedconfessed [sic], when they were eonvertedconverted [sic] to the faith of Christ.

Teito supposed that these badhad [sic] treated the Word of God so disdainfully, that there was no hope of their ever being benefited by that Word. But I soon taught him that God had long patience with men upon this earth, and often knocked for many years at their hearts, with the hammer of his Word, and of his provideneeprovidence [sic] before they opened to receive him. This encouraged Teito to pray for his friends who had left him, that God would bring his word to their remembrance, and cause them to experience it to be his ineorruptibleincorruptible [sic] seed.

Teito now began to bless God that he had been hroughtbrought [sic] from his country. ‘Without this,’ said he, I never eouldcould [sic] have known the true God, and Jesus Christ his Son, whom he sent into the world.’ Oh! how thankful he was to the God of provideneeprovidence [sic] for leading him to lie down to sleep at the foot of that tree where I lay; who, under God, had eonveyedconveyed [sic] to him such precious and eternal blessings! ‘Oh!’ said he, ‘had any gentleman made me a present of the best horse in the island, and a purse of gold to carry me home, without sleeping at that tree, what a loser I must have been; but His wisdom is a great deep, and his ways past finding out!’

The next remarkable eireumstancecircumstance [sic] that happened, while I resided with Teito, was to see two of those who had treated Teito and me with contempt, returning and eonfessingconfessing [sic], with apparent sorrow, their improper conduct; and asking permission to hear me again. Teito received them with great affection, and assured them that his God was infinitely more ready to forgive and reeeivereceive [sic] to his favour than he was. They told us that some of my sayings had followed them by night and by day; especially God’s eommandcommand [sic] to look unto him that they might be saved. They often dreamed of these words, Look unto me; and while busy at work, they said, they thought they heard a person from a distaneedistance [sic] crying with a loud voieevoice [sic], ‘Look unto mel’ but this was owing to the deep impression these words had made upon their minds.

Teito related to thomthem [sic] the wonderful providonceprovidence [sic] that introdueedintroduced [sic] him to my acquaintance, and how unwearied I had