thankfulness that in a few days (for the "Southern Cross" ought to be
here in a week with 500 more copies) some 600 or more copies, in
large type, of the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Ten Commandments will be
in circulation; but they won't use them yet. They won't be taught to
learn them by heart, and be questioned upon them; yet they may follow
by and by. Hope on is the rule. Give them the Bible, is the cry;
but you must give them the forms of faith and prayer which
Christendom has accepted, to guide them; and oh! that we were so
united that we could baptize them into a real living exemplification,
and expression--an embodiment of Christian truth, walking, sleeping,
eating and drinking before their eyes. Christ Himself was that on
earth, and His Church ought to be now. These men saw to accept His
teaching was to bind themselves to a certain course of life which was
exhibited before their own eyes. Hence, multitudes approved His
teaching, but would not accept it--would not profess it, because they
saw what was involved in that profession. But now men don't count
the cost; they forget that "If any man come to Me" is followed by
"Which of you intending to build a tower," &c. Hence the great and
exceeding difficulty in these latter days when Christianity is
popular!'

In this state of things it was impossible to baptize adults till they
had come to a much clearer understanding of what a Christian ought to
do and to believe; and therefore Coley's only christenings in Lifu
were of a few dying children, whom he named after his brother and
sisters, as he baptized them with water, brought in cocoa-nut shells,
having taught himself to say by heart his own translation of the
baptismal form.

He wrote the following letter towards the end of his stay:--