the grave, but they had no occasion for them now. On this, Teito held me up, when I took the opportunity to eall 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 eonfessed, when they were eonverted to the faith of Christ.
Teito supposed that these bad 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 providenee 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 ineorruptible seed.
Teito now began to bless God that he had been hrought from his country. ‘Without this,’ said he, I never eould 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 providenee for leading him to lie down to sleep at the foot of that tree where I lay; who, under God, had eonveyed 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 eireumstance that happened, while I resided with Teito, was to see two of those who had treated Teito and me with contempt, returning and eonfessing, 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 reeeive 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 eommand 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 distanee crying with a loud voiee, ‘Look unto mel’ but this was owing to the deep impression these words had made upon their minds.
Teito related to thom the wonderful providonce that introdueed him to my acquaintance, and how unwearied I had
