When Kaahumanu's attention had been called to that dark portion of the human family, as needing the Gospel, and prayers were offered and plans proposed to help them, she expressed a willingness to co-operate, if possible, and her opinion was incidentally elicited on a point which was to her new. I said to her, "Suppose we offer our prayers that God would convert the Marquesan people to Christ, and we still withhold the Word of God from them, what would you think of such prayers?" After a very few moments' reflection on the importance of using efforts, if possible, corresponding with the object of the prayers we offer, she replied with decision, "Ua hala ia pule. Such prayers miss their mark."

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