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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4885, 17 November 1876, Page 2

11l ' an" article' upon/ ? Early . Christianity in |Piji,” the Spectator of August' 26th notices [that one of the, most extraordinary and at the same'time best ascertained facts in the history, ■of!'Chnstianity is the,,sudden ,completeness of? jits 'victory over some savage, tribes,". .After, 'quoting numerous instances in proof of thia, it (notices one of peculiar interest in Australasia, |whicdii.'a9lit.,Bays,jß.of_almo?t,unequa4led evenr|praDdeuy« ; 7 The inci-i jdent jdeacribed by the Governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, jin^. a, lettertpj, : Ss-j priyato. friend., .Sir, Arthur saysj-rTj lijyish tjponldygiyef ygujsoine Idea of 'the intense .pictureaqueness and curious events., ■of this last IChristian .-army was encamped round Bukatia, la-very- strong plaoe r a-vast-nuißs-of-rook- risingsomething liise) the Acrocorinthus,', above: thq; river and the had never! ibeen taken, and was regarded as impregnable (by the their gods are shouted ; aloud by as an the, gods’,hawei,iW-d this might Anhoyqole RvaaAeclared.. The ffloonshonomn thp.white river-mists, and threw!ithegre.at;blao;cßhadpyiri !of the far. qverrtho plain. Out of the ’etilbessj from the very top of the rock, rang out the hoarse cry of the priest, audible nearly

a mjle off, •* - unknown to'my house in Buka,tia.’ i 1 With / one accord the whole beleaguering host, shouted out in slow and /measured ; tones'' ; ,’the xeply, to-morToty.i’ (And.ithe next was i / v and-4the deYil-'temple ' burnt.’ ’ 'Anolher narrator of the scene mentions the spontaneousness of the reply, its defiant tone, and, rolling :aa -it; did from the lips :of 1400 men, suddenly .moved to the same triumphantly defiant ejaculation, .its marvellously/startling effect.