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Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.1

"They could see the Bishop land on the beach, and there lost sight of him. . . . They had long to wait, till the tide was high enough to carry them across the reef; and they could see people on shore, at whom they gazed

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anxiously with a glass. Then two canoes rowed towards them-one cast off the other, and went back; the other, with a heap in the middle, drifted towards them, and they rowed towards it. . . . The boat came alongside, and two words passed, 'The body!' It was lifted up, and laid across the sky-light, rolled in the native mat, which was secured at the head and feet. The

placid smile was still on the face; there was a palm leaf fastened over the breast, and when the

mat was opened there were five wounds- no more.

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The sweet, calm smile preached peace to

the mourners who had lost his guiding spirit; but they could not look on it long. The next morning, St Matthew's Day, the body of John Coleridge Patteson was committed to the waters of the Pacific, his 'son after the faith' reading the Burial Service.

"He did not despise any one, wrote one of his island scholars, nor reject any one with scorn: whether it were a white or a black person, he thought them all as one, and he loved them all alike.

"He loved them all alike. That was the secret of his history and of his labours.

"Surely the simple islander's summary of his character is the honour he would prefer.1"

1 Life of Bishop Patteson, Vol. II., pages 567-579.

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