Yesterday you were near to death; say now, had you stepped over the edge of it, where would you be this day ?" Umsuka shrugged his shoulders.

"With my fathers, White Man." "And where are your fathers ?" "Nay, I know not--nowhere, everywhere: the night is full of them; in the night we hear the echo of their voices.

When they are angry they haunt the thunder-cloud, and when they are pleased they smile in the sunshine.
Sometimes also they appear in the shape of snakes, or visit us in dreams, and then we offer them sacrifice.

Yonder on the hillside is a haunted wood; it is full of their spirits, White Man, but they cannot talk, they only mutter, and their footfalls sound like the dropping of heavy rain, for they are strengthless and unhappy, and in the end they fade away." "So you say," answered Owen, "who are not altogether without understanding, yet know little, never having been taught.

Now listen to me," and very earnestly he preached to him and those about him of peace, of forgiveness, and of life everlasting.
"Why should a God die miserably upon a cross ?" asked the king at length.
"That through His sacrifice men might become as gods," answered Owen.
"Believe in Him and He will save you." "How can we do that," asked the king again, "when already we have a god?
Can we desert one god and set up another ?" "What god, King ?" "I will show him to you, White Man.