apid drops to the leaves below.
No one of her wounds were visible, although it was evident that
dissolution was proceeding rapidly with her.

The minister, at this point, noticed that the lips of Oonomoo were
moving. Thinking he had some request to make, he leaned forward and
listened. His soul was thrilled with holy joy when he heard
unmistakably the words of supplication. Oonomoo was addressing the
Great Spirit of the world, not as a craven does, at the last moment,
when overtaken by death, but as he had often done before, with the
assurance that his prayer was heard. With a simplicity as touching as
it was earnest, he spoke aloud his forgiveness of the Shawnees, saying
that he wished not their scalps, and had not taken any for several
years, not since the Great Spirit had sent a wonderful light in his
soul. For a moment more he was silent, and then opening his eyes,
uttered the name of Niniotan.

"I am here before you!" replied the boy.

"Niniotan, be a Huron warrior; be as Oonomoo has been; never take the
scalp of a foe, and kill none except in honorable warfare; live and die
a Christian."

As was his custom, when addressing his wife or boy, this exhortation
was given in his own tongue, so that the missionary was the only one
beside them who understood it. Languidly shutting his eyes again,
Oonomoo said: "Read out of Good Book."

The good man was pained beyond description to find that the
pocket-Bible, which he always carried with him, had been lost during
his hurried approach to this spot. But Fluellina, who had caught the
words, said: "It is in my bosom."

The missionary reached down and drew it forth, and, as he did so, all
the men noticed the red stains upon it, while he himself felt the warm,
fresh blood upon his hand. Instinctively he opened the volume at the
fifteenth chapter of Corinthians, that beautiful letter of the
Apostle's, in which the triumphant and glorious resurrection of the
body at the last day is pictured in the sublime language of inspiration:

"'As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

"'And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly.

"'Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

"'Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed.

"'In