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Incidents in Mission Life. 213battie was to be fought on the morrow. I was ceremonies of sending her off; some who hadseated on a mat by Hezekiah, the Bonaporte of not come fully into the Christian life protestingthe island. He was all in earnest, seated at his against snch a favorite going to the dark landsjob of making an old cutlass and flintlock musket beyond.ready for the engagement on the morrow. In She consoled aU parties in words of cheer, sayandabout the large feast house were gathered ing she gladly went forth to carry lo their neighthemultitudes; some busy in looking after their bors the light in which they so rejoiced ; thatweapons, others working over huge fires, where she did not leave her people because they hadthe squealing pigs and barking dogs were to be ever been unkind to her, or she did not loveroasted for the battie feast, for how could a brave them, but because she pitied and loved the perbeso brave as when well fed ? These groups isbing. She then closed the meeting by singing,were aU excitement over their work ; stirring the in the sweetest of voices, a song of her own comfires,melting the lead iuto shining bullets, each position, which brought the vast crowd to tearsdoing his best to enliven his work, and cheer his Opatinia and her good husband, with two asheart,and help on the preparations by songs and sociate teachers, were taken to the Mortlocks,mock deeds of battle fields. set on shore without knowing a word of the na-Frolicking about tbe crowds, leaping into the tive language, without any visible means of suplaps,and caressing this and that beckoning group port, with only the promises of a purely heathenwas to be seeu a beautiful little girl ; now dart- people to give them food and care, and comingthrough the smoke with face all covered with menced there their great work. Assistant teachthesoot of the fires, now climbing overthe stacks ers have ioined their first band from time to time,of muskets, in her frolicsome leaps and joyous but Opatinia has always been the head andlaughs. She seemed to be the delight and pet leader. And now, after some fourteen years,of all, especially of the chief warrior, into whose there are more than twoscore of home and forarmssbe oftenest sprang. No one conld help eign churches, with a membership of perhaps twoseeing she was the Uttle queen of the tribe, or thousand, aU worshipping in churches of theirhelp feeUng glad that in all dark pictures there own construction, and the teachers are all livingare some bright mixtures of the beautiful.in comfortable dwellings buUt by their people,Years passed ou : the child became a favorite and are being well fed by them.—The King'sin the mission famiUes, learned to read and write> Messengers.delighted in receiving instruction, became a leader HANNAH WAKEELY.in Christian work, and was exceedingly useful inhelping to train workers in the churches and In March, 1863, Miss Arnott gathered aroundschools of her own native island. After years of her her first band of little girls, fourteen inpreparation ;n various kinds of Christian work, number, and from these began her wonderfulshe and her worthy hnsband headed a band of mission work in Jaffa. Hannah Wakeely wasChristian pioneers, to go to the regions beyond. the Dldest of the group, about thirteen years old.In 1874, on the arrival of the Morning Star, and was mainly instrumental in bringing in thethere was a great gathering of natives to bid rest. She was uncommonly bright and becamefareweU to this princess and her band of workers, afterwards a teacher, but her work was soonwho were going to try their skUl as laborers on done, she was a frail reed and was not onlythe Mortiock Islands. It was a notable gather- shaken but broken by the wind. At eighteening at the church of her native place, many of her work was finished, life began to wither downher Christian subjects joyously assisting in the to its roots.