Obituary of Rure, a New Zealander.
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Missionary Register
MAY, 1829.
Biography
THREE YOUNG NATIVE CONVERTS.
OBITUARY OF RURE, A NEW ZEALANDER.
Mr. John King, of the Church Missionary Society, in a Letter of October 1827, from New Zealand, gives the following particulars--
Rure lived with Mr. Hall until he removed to Port Jackson; and then with me until his death, which took place on the 14th of August. I believe that his soul is gone to rest. Formerly he used, he said, to disbelieve all that was said about Jesus Christ, and believed Jehovah to be a very angry God; but, about five months before his death, the Word of God came with power, and made him tremble and be much afraid. From that time he began to pray, and seek the Lord in earnest; and has given satisfactory evidence of his being a brand plucked out of the burning: he prayed, as our Natives observed, night and day to God for the pardon of his sins, and to wash his soul in the blood of Christ, and to prepare his soul for heaven, and for a new and good heart, and not to permit him to go to hell, but to take his soul to heaven. He had peace and joy, at times, in believing, as well as fears and doubts at others. Our Natives were surprised to see him so calm and cheerful in the prospect of death and labouring under bodily pain, and say that he is gone to heaven, for they remarked that his end was peace.
