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 KAI^^DI. 535 are very submissive and teachable ; and have stood firm to their pro- fession during many severe tests from the Heathen. " Our regular weekly services here are as follows : — Sunday morn- ing, prayer-meeting : forenoon and afternoon, preaching in native. Some of the Classes meet between each of the services. In the evening, I generally preach in English. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we hold the children's school in the forenoon, and the adult's in the evening, at which most of our people are present. On Tuesday, most of the Classes meet. On Thursday, we have preaching and the Leaders' Meeting. I meet the Teachers and Local Preachers for reading, exami- nation, and prayer. I read a lecture, and they read a chapter in the New Testament, on which I question them, explaining difficulties, and desiring them to ask questions on any subject or passage of Scripture. I tell them what I think wrong in their preaching ; and endeavour to impress upon their minds the importance of their work, and the neces- sity of the Spirit's light and power to make it efiectual. I also give them instruction in arithmetic and geography. On Saturday evenings we hold a prayer-meeting. On Monday and Thursday evenings we have a meeting to teach singing. " 29th. — I went to Solevu to preach to the white residents. I endea- voured to improve the death of Mr. Hunt, who was well known to them and highly respected. May the Lord sanctify this afflictive pro- vidence to them and to us ! I was much pleased with their respectable appearance, attention, and kindness. In the afternoon I preached in the native language to their wives and children, who do them credit for cleanliness and good behaviour." Christianity did not thus establish itself without opposition from the Heathen, who stole and destroyed the food of the converts, and found various ways of annoying them. But they could not hinder the work. A Chief of some rank at a neighbouring town deserted their ranks, and, with most of the people of the place, sought Christian instruction. A large and good chapel was soon built here; and at Nandundu, a village fifty miles distant, on the coast, towards Somoso- mio, several persons became Christian. Teachers were sent to various points, and Mr. Hazlewood found his time fully occupied. He taught several young men to write, and was greatly comforted, among the peculiar trials of a solitary Station, by seeing the consistent piety and earnest devotion of some of his flock. On the 7th of February, 1849, death again visited the Nandi Sta- tion, and one of Mr. Hazlewood's children was taken, after severe suffering. With sad hearts, the parents were compelled to prepare the