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TASMANIANS COULD BE CHRISTIANS.
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to thyself.' This was in the hearing of the greater portion of the people who are yet alive. He was a good man."

Though the civilization of the race proved a failure, the death-bed story of the Tasmanians proves that they had an inner nature, that they could live the life of Christians, and that they could die their death. May we, with all our knowledge, grope in no greater darkness than these at last!