496 A CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE,

in that very religion which we were instructing the other in. He
told me that, as he had no consecrated chapel, no proper things
for the office, [ should see he would do it in a manner that I
should not know by it that he was a Roman Catholic myself, if I
had not known it before. And so he did; for saying only some
words over to himself in Latin, which I could not understand, he
poured a whole dishful of water upon the woman’s head, pro-
nouncing in French, very loud, ‘“‘ Mary (which was the name her
husband desired me to give her, for I was her godfather), I baptize
thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost ;”” so that none could know anything by it what religion
he was of. He gave the benediction afterwards in Latin; but
either Will Atkins did not know but it was in French, or else did
not take notice of it at that time.

As soon as this was over, we married them; and after the
marriage was over, he turned himself to Will Atkins, and in a
very affectionate manner exhorted him not only to persevere in
that good disposition he was in, but to support the convictions
that were upon him by a resolution to reform his life; told him
it was in vain to say he repented if he did not forsake his crimes ;
represented to him how God had honoured him with being the
instrument of bringing his wife to the knowledge of the Christian
religion, and that he should be careful he did not dishonour the
grace of God, and that if he did, he would see the heathen a better
Christian than himself—the savage converted and the instrument
cast away.

He said a great many good things to them both, and then
recommending them, in a few words, to God’s goodness, gave
them the benediction again, I repeating everything to them in
English ; and thus ended the ceremony. I think it was the most
pleasant, agreeable day to me that ever I passed in my whole
life.

But my clergyman had not done yet. His thoughts hung con-
tinually upon the conversion of the seven-and-thirty savages, and
fain he would have stayed upon the island to have undertaken
it. But I convinced him, first, that his undertaking was imprac-
ticable in itself; and, secondly, that perhaps I would put it into