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enabled his servant to escape from the grasp of the persecutor,
and all the party came back to the house where we had so
recently joined together in the worship of God. I had travelled
a considerable distance during the day, had got wet, preached
twice, and performed various other duties; being fatigued, and
having to journey home on the morrow, I had retired to rest. As
soon as I heard what had taken place I arose, had the wounds of
the poor female attended to, and bound up. I then conversed
with the people, read to them the first twelve verses of the
fifth of Matthew, and again from the forty-third verse to the
end; spoke to them on the duty of forgiveness, love to enemies,
and patient suffering for Christ's sake; prayed with them,
first for the persecutors, next for themselves and for the
church of God. They left me between nine and ten o'clock,
rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer for
righteousness' sake; before they left, they besought me not to
carry the matter to a magistrate, but to leave it with God;
promising that they would always afterward go and return by a
road that did not lead them near the house of this man. I
really admired their forgiving spirit, and their patient
endurance of evil, especially that of the chief sufferer, and
of her husband, who had suffered with her, and had narrowly
escaped death in rescuing her. Two of the nine have long been
free, the others were apprentices. Had the native feelings of
the human heart been indulged, how easily could these people
have resisted the assaults of their persecutors, and, as they
were pursued about half a mile on the road that has been a
common by-path for years, they might have turned upon their
adversaries, and afterwards have argued that they had a right
to pass without molestation, and when molested to act on the
defensive, in forcing their way to their homes; but, except a
few words at first, of calm entreaty, these quiet people did
nothing, and gave no impertinent language, but turned to go
back in peace, and were in the act of returning when they were
thus assaulted."

We mentioned, in our last number, that Mr. Coultart had encountered much
annoyance in the neighbouring parish of St. Ann's, the birth-place of
the Colonial Church Union, and disgracefully conspi