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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Undoubtedly, my dear girl, if anyone turns to Jehovah, trusting to Jesus Christ, and seeks the aid of the Holy Spirit whom He has promised to send, he will be enabled to do His will. God cannot lie. Everything He has promised He will fulfil," answered my mother. "I pray that you will be enabled to explain this matter to the chief, your father." "Yes! yes! that I will," cried Lisele.
She shook her head sorrowfully, saying she was afraid that Masaugu was too much wedded to his heathen practices to be induced to abandon them by any arguments Lisele could use, and that he was far more likely to prevent her from returning. This made us very sad, for we had had hopes that Lisele had really become a Christian, and would remain faithful to the truth.
On the day I have spoken of, when it was time for Lisele to return to her aunt's house, she invited me to accompany her, which my mother gave me permission to do. She wanted me to assist her in persuading her aunt to allow her to return to her father. "I have been so long accustomed to speak falsehoods, that if I tell her that I wish to go she will not believe my object," said Lisele.
"Ah, but the heathens will not think so," she exclaimed, "and we know not what effect it may have upon their minds. Perhaps they will think it is sent through the incantations of the Christians, and will come in consequence and attack us." I scarcely thought this possible, but Lisele was positive that it would have a bad effect.
Lisele then eagerly poured forth what she had been hearing, so rapidly, that I could scarcely follow her. "It is all true," said Abela, when her niece at length ceased speaking. "I praise Jehovah that you know it." When, however, Lisele told her of her wish to go back to her father, Abela hesitated.
We could scarcely hope that my father would have had time to return, yet we anxiously looked for his arrival. The canoe with the two natives had been unable to reach the vessel, and information was brought to Lisele that they had been seized and killed by the heathens, who had gone out in chase of them.
God in His mercy has promised a free and full pardon to all who trust to Him. `Pardon for sin is the gift of God, and the King who makes the present requires nothing in return but gratitude and love and obedience." "I think I understand," said Lisele.
Lisele replied that although the tribe who had committed the deed were at present at peace with her people, that even should any white man have escaped it would be difficult to get them out of the heathens' hands, but that she would try what could be done. "There is a young chief among them who is more inclined than the rest of the people to be friendly with my father," she observed.
"They believe in God, and yet, blinded by Satan, fancy in their folly that they can safely put off the time to begin serving and obeying Him." We rejoiced to find that Lisele was allowed to remain with her aunt at the settlement. She had tried, even before her return to the settlement, to persuade her father to abandon his intentions of going to war.
The path towards the mountains, at all times difficult, was rendered doubly so by the number of fallen trees across it, thrown down by the hurricane. Sometimes we had to climb over the trunks, at others to creep under the branches. "The heathens will be less able to discover our tracks," observed Lisele, "than if the path had been open."
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