"I will just state a few particulars concerning myself:

"I am, I humbly trust, a converted man, having received the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, little more than three years, previous to which I

had been a sceptic and deist.

"I belong to the Wesleyan Methodist communion, and am a local preacher and class leader. From the time of my conversion, and with an ardent desire to promulgate the truths which so deeply affected my own heart, I have been acting on the principle of a home missionary, convening the poor together, and exhorting them to receive Christ; and God has acknowledged and blessed labours to the conversion of some, if not many,

my

souls.

"My profession is that of surgeon, which I have been practising in this town with, I believe, credit, and the esteem of my fellow-townsmen. I am single, and just arrived at my thirty-third year. I may add that I have been in practice on my own account for nearly five years."

The ccm

This letter was favourably received. mittee satisfied itself as to Mr Williams' personal worth and general qualifications; and, having passed satisfactorily an examination in theology, he was appointed, along with Mr Maidment, a catechist in the Fuegian Mission.

In taking this step, Mr Williams relinquished a

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good income, and postponed for a long period some cherished prospects. Nor was it a slight trial to his tender and affectionate spirit to part with so many loved friends and relatives. But happily, after his services were accepted, so short a period elapsed till he found himself on ship-board, that there was no time for protracted partings or sorrowful musings. Before he could dispose of his practice, or go to bid farewell to some of his nearest kindred, the time of embarkation had arrived, and it required his best speed to reach Liverpool before the sailing of the Ocean Queen.

CHAPTER V.

The Voyage.

THE storm is changed into a calm
At His command and will;

So that the waves, which raged before,
Now quiet are and still.

Then are they glad, because at rest,

And quiet now they be :

So to the haven He them brings,

Which they desired to see.

Psalm cvii. 29, 30.-Scotch Version.

These difficulties are nothing in reality. He that has an object in view so exciting as the acquisition of ability to preach Christ to the heathen, plods along without one thought of weariness or inconvenience; loving to tread the rough furrows, because he sees them strewn with the promise of many a sheaf.-Rev. William Arthur.