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natives prayed with great earnestness and solemnity. After service all
remained, and were catechised on the sermon, and then several present
stood up and exhorted their friends to receive the Gospel. Many
strangers were present, and they were exhorted to come as often as
possible and hear the good news. Then, again, others offered prayers. We
found that numbers came in on the Saturday with food and cooking-pots,
and remained until Monday morning. They lived with the teachers, and
attended all the services, beginning with a prayer-meeting on Saturday
night.
During our stay of a few days, they all remained at the station, and we
saw much of them. The teachers said there were twenty-one who professed
faith in Christ and had given up heathenism and desired baptism. We
visited further on to the east, and we were a week away on our return to
East Cape, and after close examination of each candidate we decided to
baptize them on the following Tuesday. The service was most interesting,
and well attended by persons from various places.
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