, 1893-01-18

Invitation recently published in this paper
from the Reverends T. Shields and Alb. RoEnig
to friends of the Moravian Mission to attend
the conservation Of the new Church at
Emmaus, St. John, on the llth instant, and
among whom the editor of this paper had the
privilege of being included, started for 81.
John by the schooner Mary on the afternoon
Of the 10th, AS the few previous days
had ended with calm evenings and nights. 1t
was considered wise to start early, and the
schooner left Christiansted harbour a little
before two o'clock. A calm sea and a gentle
breeze from the southeast made the voyage
verv pleasant one. Even on the ladies Of the
party the usual penalties of a sea voyage Tell
very lightly. Towards evening, however, the
breeze fell off considerably, aud the schooner
had still a good part of the ~ miles or 30 OF
her Journey vet before her. Between SIX aud
seven o'clock the headlight of the Royal Mail
Steamer was seen coming from st. Thomas,
but nothing was seen Of the vessel till later IN
the night, when the passengers IN the MARY.
were much aStonished to see three red llghts
one over the other, in front OF them. Inns E
was at once interpreted by those deep IN
nautical lore as meaning a steamer move 10. :
AS we came near we saw that it was a largS'
well lighted vessel. We were hailed with
the question Where are you bound to-" and
LObu Win u IOQQO0E - -
schooner. The steamer being asked in re-
turn. we heard that she was the Esk; but az
none of our party were aware that it was the
Est that was to carry the mails on that occa-
sion. we did not come to any clear conclusion
as.to the reason of her lying there, and had
no suspicion f the sad accident that had taken
place shortly before. 1t was only later that
we learned what had happened and that &C
the time we we're passing, two Of the bremen
Law dead. and two Of the engineers were serl-
ously injured. After passing the Bs6 we CON
tinued our leisuIely voyage and 1t was past
midnight before we arrived at tne entrance OK
the fine harbour known as Coral Bay; and after
a very slow progress UP a part OF 1t we drop
ned anchor. at about two o'clock IN the morn
ING in what our skipper declared to be 10
fathoms Of water. The morning of the 18th
dawned with the same c I'm, and showed US
that we were lying in q beautiful bay, opening
to the southeast. Hills surrounded US on all
other sides. on our right as we looked up tue
bav was a settlement consisting OF Anew
houses scattersd on the hill side, which was
called, we were told, Easte End. Emmaua
could not be seen, but we were INFORMED Vn"'
ir was behind a certain point Whlch now
ever. seemed to be so much III a lire with the
rest of the land that it was dltlcult 70 Oe-
lie&e that there could be a furtAer opening at
that spot. A very gentle breeze men spi"u6
M. but blowing off the land. Our skipper
hsd the anchor taken up and we made ssverai
taoks without making much progress, when
Al last the breeze once more failed US entirely;
the boat was then hoisted out and the sonoon-
or was lowed towards the unpromlslng look
ing point. AS we nearsd it we saw that there
really was an op.ning there, into . mali
inner harbour, and as we rounded the point
wesaw tn pretty mission settlems It before US.
There stood the new church, the mission
house lust behind it, the school house ana
several other buildings on the left. IL mSnea
nrettr1 picture standing out against the 5usn
covered hills behind it. On our LETT were
some small patches of cultivation with NIUE Sn
cottages snugly half-hidden away on the MI
side. and before us, on a hill, the OLD great
house of the once prosperous Carolina plan
tation. It was now after nine O'Clock, tns
conservation was to take place at ii O'CLOCK
and Bishop Weiss had not yet arrived. we
could see the people coming down tho differ
ant country roads, some walking and some on
nonies toward the church, and felt sympathy
for them when we thought OF the long amount
OF waiting tnsy would lave to do I " we alreany
knew something about it. While we were neln9
tozsd in the Revd. A B. Romig's boat came
nm to ns and the oarsmen. after giving MI.
. oo,,,li,oants and EXCUSES Tor ilOJ