Adventures and adventurers > Voyages and travels of a Bible

OF A BIBI.K.
19
the grave, but they had no occasion for them now. On this,
Teito held me up, when I took the opportunity to call out—•
‘ Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.’—
‘ Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth ;
for I am God, and there is none else.’ On this they put their
lingers in their ears, and ran off. On which I called after
them—‘ Who hath believed our report ? to whom hath the
ami of the Lord been revealed V Borne of my words spoken
at this time made a deep impression on the minds of several ;
as they afterwards confessed, when they were converted to
the faith of Christ.
Teito supposed that these had treated the Word of God so
disdainfully, that there was no hope of their ever being bene¬
fited by that Word. But I soon taught him tha't God had
long patience with men upon this earth, and often knocked
for many years at their hearts, with the hammer of his Word,
and of his providence, before they opened to receive him.
This encouraged Teito to pray for his friends who had left
him, that God wtmld bring his Word to their remembrance,
and cause them to experience it to be his incorruptible seed.
Teito now began to bless God that he had been brought
from his country. ‘ Without this,’ said he, * 1 never could
have known the true God, and Jesus Christ his Son, whom
he sent into the world.’ Oh ! how thankful he was to the
God of providence for leading him to lie down to sleep at the
foot of that tree where I lay ; who, under God, had conveyed
to him such precious and eternal blessings ! ‘ Oh !’ said he,
‘ had any gentleman made me a present of the best horse in
the island, and a purse of gold to carry me home, without
sleeping at that tre«, what a loser I must have been ; but His
wisdom is a great deep, and his ways past finding out!’
The next remarkable circumstance that happened, while I
resided with Teito, was to see two of those who had treated
Teito and me with contempt, returning and confessing, with
apparent sorrow, their improper conduct; and asking per¬
mission to hear me again. Teito received them with great
affection, and assured them that his God was infinitely'more
ready to forgive and receive to his favour than lie was. They
told us that some of my sayings had followed them by night
and by day ; especially God’s command to look unto him that
they might be saved. They often dreamed of these words,
Look unto me; and while busy at work, they said, they
thought they heard a person from a distance crying with a
loud voice, ‘ Look unto me but this was owing to the deep
impression these words had made upon their minds.
Teito related to thorn the wonderful providence that intro¬
duced him to my acquaintance, and how unwearied I had