HISTORY PARAPHRASED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 15

HISTORY PARAPHRASED.

In an addrjs 1 ; on tltc natives of the Nuw Hebrides, delivered by tho Rev. T. Watt Lcggalt at tiio Foreign Mis'ioiu Confcrenca in Melbourne, ho described fomc of "tho quaint but direct methods of teaching employed by the native prca'-hcr" " 'llicy don't worry their heads about Iho New Theology (ho raid), aud they employ a deal of local colour, which gnes their Bibla narratives Gtrikintc point.

I heard one convert toll to a crowd of i dusky brethren tho ktory of Samson. Ho taid that first tho enemy tied .Samson up with creepers. Samson puffed out his chest and burst tho Firings. Then they bound him with twined swathes of creepers ; but Samson shook himself, aud the bands enapped. At this stage the teacher was stuck for a aupsrlaiivo means of cspiossing the thh\l capture of .Samson. At last ho bethought himself of a now and awe-inspiring; sort of ropo, samples of which had just reached tho island. Then, said he, I'hilislincß wrapped Samson up in barbed wire ! Another man paraphrased the story of David mourning for hia infant son. He suid David rat himself down in the dirt and wouldn't oat pig (the be-all and endall of the hepthen New' Hebric'oan). At la«t the httlo cue died, but no man was willing to break thn news to Dnvid, for thoy «a\v how mad he was while tho child lived, and thof said ho would eprlainly shoot on Bight tho bearer of ho flio bad new 3. But David raw thorn i whispering about it, and he Rushed what was "the maler. lu&tbad of bringing out i his gun ho ran down to the creek, mam around, washed the dirt off him, wmo out, pulled on hia pants, stuvl, boots, and K'kx, nnd wont up to tho inienition house and prayed, and then Pta a big feast I"