thinks of emigrating or becoming a missionary, just let him remember
this.'

To these humble requisites, it appears that a missionary ought on
occasion to be able to add those of a prime minister and lawgiver.
Angadhohua, a bright, clever lad, only too easily led, was to be
instructed in the duties of a chief; Mr. Patteson scrupulously trying
in vain to make him understand that he was a person of far more
consideration and responsibility than his white visitor would be in
his own country. The point was to bring the Christian faith into
connection with life and government. 'Much talk have I had with John
in order that we may try to put before them the true grounds on which
they ought to embrace Christianity,' writes Mr. Patteson, when about
to visit a heathen district which had shown an inclination to abandon
their old customs, 'and also the consequences to which they pledge
themselves by the profession of a religion requiring purity,
regularity, industry, &c., but I have little doubt that our visit now
will result in the nominal profession of Christianity by many
heathen. Angadhohua, John, and I go together, and Isaka, a Samoan
teacher who has been a good deal among them. I shall make an
arrangement for taking one of their leading men to New Zealand with
me, that he may get some notion of what is meant by undertaking to
become a Christian. It is in many respects a great benefit to be
driven back upon the very first origin of a Christian society; one
sees more than ever the necessity of what our Lord has provided, a
living organised community into which the baptized convert being
introduced falls into his place, as it were, naturally; sees around
him everything at all times to remind him that he is a regenerate
man, that all things are become new. A man in apostolic times had
the lessons of the Apostles and disciples practically illustrated in