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). He has the same attributes as Tooi Bolotoo. T gi Oocumm a (literally, an 'iron axe'). The same attributes as the above. Toob a, Bo goo (literally, 'Toobo he short'). The same attributes as the above. Tangl a, god of artificers and the arts. Doubtful if he has any house dedicated to him. He has several priests, who are all carpenters. It was this god that brought the Tonga Islands from the bottom of the sea whilst fishing. Such are the names and attributes of the chief primitive gods: next to

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necessary to be performed, to demonstrate their great veneration for the high character of Tooitonga, and that it was the duty of the most exalted nobles, even of the most delicate females of rank, to perform the meanest and most disgusting office, rather than the sacred grounds in which he was buried should remain polluted. T boo. This word has various shades of signification. It means sacred or consecrated to a god, having the same signification as fucca-egi; it means prohibited or forbidden

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the appointed signal, and appearing immediately, in all their countless generations, before the tribunal of their great Judge, to receive their final doom; though it would take ages even to recite the very names of all the individuals who have lived on the earth, even up to this present time: as you may easily convince yourselves if you will make even the roughest calculation. But we must remember, that as God is in all places equally at the same moment of time, and sees and knows not one

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yet that the very same words, when applied to the happiness of the blest, are to be interpreted to signify for ever and ever supposing, I say, this to be the true state of the case, what ground have we in Scripture for these different interpretations? The fact is, that the notion I have been speaking of is not derived from the Word of God, but from the conjectures of men, respecting the supposed nature of the Almighty: of which they can know little or nothing, except what Scripture reveals

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, by the change wrought within us, be brought nearer to, what may be called, the presence of God; that is, to the capacity of perceiving more of his glorious perfections, than we can, in our present state, and of holding some such intercourse with Him as now we cannot. Although, however, the All-present Spirit, which we call God, has no relation to place, nor can be said to be in one part of the universe more than in another; it must be otherwise with the bodily person of the Lord Jesus, with

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ignominious death. Such was the faith of the penitent thief. Yet it is worth while to observe that his was not a blind belief without evidence. Such is hot that faith without which it is impossible to please God; but would rather be foolish credulity. That faith which is counted for righteousness, consists, not, in believing without evidence, but in being open to evidence; in candidly and patiently weighing the reasons; and in resolving to receive and acknowledge whatever there is good ground

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he is accepted with God. What can be more natural than that they also should listen to the delusions of Satan, who whispers to them, as to our first parents, ye shall not surely die; that they should wait for a death-bed repentance, and propose to themselves, when the time shall arrive, to send for the same Minister who has spoken such words of comfort? If we were disposed to magnify our office, we should, like the Priests of the Romish Church, pretend to be able to insure any one's salvation

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preaching from the words: Let him that stole, steal no more. In his discourse, he had refuted the idea they had formerly held, that theft was no crime, but rather an act of merit, if committed with dexterity; and had shewn that the circumstance of detection or escape did not alter the moral quality of the act in the sight of God; that every means employed unjustly to deprive another of his property, was an act of theft, and that restitution ought to be made for past robberies, as well as

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, adore that GOD, who, to increase our faith in his word, enables us to discern, however dimly, in earthly things, the shadows of such as are heavenly. Sw. Tittenhanger Green, St. Alban's, July, 1831. * Kirby, Int. to Ent., iv. 402. The most natural and consistent interpretation of 1 Cor. xiii. 12. B ' , is, that we see now as it were in a mirror the glory of God reflected enigmatically by the things that he has made. Kirby, Int. to Ent., p. 402, note. [page lvii

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Jesus died and rose again, even so also them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. (1 Thess. iv. 13, 14.) And this may be made to lead to a train of meditations on the subject, such as these: the time will certainly come when no subject but this will interest me at all: after I shall have left this world, and perhaps all my descendants to the last generation shall long have followed me, I shall still be living; and, ages after that, shall have as much life to look forward to as ever

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between Christianity and paganism, their attachment to the abominations of the latter was too strong to be removed by any other influence than that of the Spirit of God. Anxious to avoid unnecessary expenditure, they had on a former occasion written, to prevent the Society's incurring any further expense on their account, as their remaining on the island was uncertain; but now, as there was a prospect of peaceable continuance, and the liberal supply they had taken out in the Duff, being, by

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, and have gazed on their exhibitions of folly and of vice with interest and pleasure. In addition to these sources of disturbance, they were sometimes charged with being the authors of all the disasters and suffering of the people, in consequence of praying to their God, whom the natives called a bad God [page] 11

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God. They did not scruple to tell them that He was killing the people; but that by and by, when Oro gained the ascendency, they should feel the effects of his vengeance. In addition to the diseases resulting from their immorality, there were others of a contagious and often fatal character, to which the natives were formerly strangers. These had been conveyed to the islands either by the visits of ships, or the desertion of seamen afflicted with them; they produced the most distressing sickness

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, Ia ora oei te haere raa mai to nei, no te Aroha o te Atua o I ta mai ai, Blessing on you from God, peace to you in coming here, on account of the love of God are you come. These were his words. His person was tall and commanding, his hair black and curling, his eyes benignant, and his whole countenance beamed with a joy that declared his tongue only obeyed the dictates of his heart. His name was AUNA, a native of Raiatea, formerly an areoi and a warrior, who had arrived, with numbers of his

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recorded, it may still be affirmed in the language of the deputation sent by the Society to the South Seas, that God has indeed done great things here. It is much to be regretted, that the Missionaries on the spot who were intimately acquainted with every indication of the moral and spiritual process that was going on, even in its incipient stages, and every event which marked its gradual development, until, in the language of the natives on another but similar occasion, it burst upon them

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nurtured amid the debasing and polluting immorality, for which his country, ever since its discovery, had been distinguished; and although his ideas of the moral perfections of the true God might be but indistinct, and his views of the purity required in the gospel but partial, yet it might naturally be expected, that the convictions of guilt in such an individual, when first awakened to a sense of the nature and consequence of sin, would be deep and severe. That which he wrote to the Missionaries soon

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formerly instructed, had occasionally met to pray to God. In order to ascertain the nature and extent of the anxiety which had been excited, and to confer with the individuals under its influence, Messrs. Scott and Hayward, having been deputed by their companions to visit Tahiti, sailed over from Eimeo, on the 15th of June, 1813. Although the king was residing in Matavai, they landed in the district of Pare, and proceeding to the valley of Hautaua, they learned that the report was correct, and that in

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with the gods by origin and family, and his future place among them, were to have been detailed. This, Taaroarii strictly prohibited; declaring that he intended no longer to acknowledge the gods of Tahiti, which were no gods; that no more ceremonies should be performed on his account, as he purposed to worship Jehovah. He was anxious to know more respecting God, and wished them also to hear about Him; and, therefore, sent a message to Mr. Nott, requesting him to come down and preach to the

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had required much time and labour, by personal application, to assemble the smallest congrogations. Many appeared to listen with earnestness and satisfaction to the message they delivered, called God the good spirit, and scrupled not to designate their own gods as varua , and varua , foolish spirits, and evil spirits. In the autumn of the same year, Mr. Wilson went on board a vessel at Eimeo, which was driven to the leeward islands, where contrary winds detained him and his companions for three

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the true God. The latter, however, frequently became indignant at the very proposal, charging the God of the foreigners with all the maladies under which they suffered, and the disturbances that agitated the country; accusing them also of bringing down the vengeance of their own gods upon the family, by deserting their altars, and worshipping with the strangers. Frequently, however, they answered their entreaties only with ridicule and scorn, tauntingly inquiring, Where is the good of which

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, probably, by his heroical reply, they rushed upon him, wounded, and murdered him, and then, in a long basket made with the leaves of the overshadowing cocoa-nut tree, bore his body to the temple, where, with exultation, it was offered in sacrifice to their god. They had, perhaps, beheld, with fiend-like joy, his writhing agonies in death, and listened, with equal delight, to his expiring groans. The unconscious earth had been saturated with his blood; and, when they placed his body on the rude altar

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the moral, civil, and religions aspect of the nation. The success that attended his endeavours appears from a letter which he addressed to the Missionaries while encamped in the district of Maatea, on the side of the island nearly opposite to that in which the European settlement stood. In this letter he stated his delight in beholding the chiefs inclined to obey the word of God; which, he said, Jehovah himself was causing to grow, so that it prospered exceedingly. Thirty-four or thirty-six, in

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Wood, called by the natives the body of Oro, into which they imagined the god at times entered, and through which his influence was exerted, Pomare's party bore away on their shoulders, and, on returning to the camp, laid in triumph at their sovereign's feet. It was subsequently fixed up as a post in the king's kitchen, and used in a most contemptuous manner, by having baskets of food suspended from it; and, finally, it was riven up for fuel. This was the end of the principal idol of the

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produce an entire change of character and deportment. I do not, however, suppose we are to infer from the account that is given of this amazing work in Greenland, that, during the first five or seven years of their labours there, the being and character of God, c. were inculcated, to the exclusion or neglect of the way of salvation through Jesus Christ. Their teaching would, in that case, have been more defective than I am willing to suppose it was. Nor do I think we are to conclude, that

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in the presence of the gods, they were solemnly anointed, the forehead of each person being sprinkled with fragrant oil. The sacred pig, clothed or wrapped in the haio or cloth of the order, was next put into his hand, and offered to the god. Each individual was then declared, by the person officiating on the occasion, to be an Areoi of the order to which he was thus raised. If the pig wrapped in the sacred cloth was killed, which was sometimes done, it was buried in the temple; but if alive