speaking on sacrifices, the offering of Isaac, and the life of Joseph.
These narratives in Genesis have attracted them very much, and they
listened very attentively to my interpreter. All my addresses are
written before I enter my church, and read to the interpreter, and
therefore, I believe, they are already acquainted with many truths from
God's Word, which do strike against the immorality in which they are
living. Sometimes, when I speak in the church, they talk among
themselves, either approving what is said, but more often because the
truth spoken is a rebuke to some of them."

In a later letter, dated March 1st, 1879, Mr. Hall further describes
his interesting congregation;--

"The Indians did not rush to my services at first, and then drop off.
No! a few came at first, and they have gradually increased, and on the
Sunday before they all went to Alert Bay there were probably eighty at
my first service, the majority being men--men who have frequently
committed murder, and who have bitten each other from their youth
upwards in the winter dances. Medicine-men were present who have often
eaten the bodies of dead men, exhumed from their graves, and who to
this day are dreaded by all the people, because there is not an Indian
in the camp but that superstitiously believes these doctors can kill
them by their sorcery. I cannot tell you yet that these wicked men who
come to my services are earnestly seeking a better way. I cannot tell
you yet that I can see any change in them. I know that some of them
hate me and my message, and speak against it; but they come and hear
the truth; and who can say but that God will give them His Holy Spirit,
and that they may be turned from darkness to serve the living and true
God?