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Title: Fiji and the Fijians
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Williams, Thomas, 1815-1891 Calvert, James, 1813-1892 Rowe, George Stringer, ed
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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le Circuit. During Mr. Waterhouses absence, the Circuit has been in the careof the Rev. J. S. Fordham, who had become well fitted for such acharge by his residence and sufferings at Nandi. Mara and a youngerbrother continue unsettled, and have succeeded in exciting ill-feelingand war, once more, near to Mbau. The King, who remains firm andconsistent in his profession of Christianity, deals with the hostile party32 492 FIJI AND THE FIJIAiq^S. as leniently as the maintenance of authority and order will allow, andstrives to avoid bloodshed as far as possible. The kingdom of peace is making daily progress, and the purereligion and undefiled of the Gospel has firmly established itself inthe heart of Fiji. But very much remains to be done, and the greatsuccesses which have followed the preaching of the Gospel, while fillingthe Missionaries with grateful wonder, have made them feel moreand more keenly the want of help to reap the ready harvest, the veryplentifulness of which overwhelms them.
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CHAPTEEIX. MBUA. The Mission labours, sufferings, and perils on the large island ofVanua Levu—the Great Land—have been similar to those already-described, although thej have their own events of peculiar interest.The greater part of the island still remains under the old darkness ofits superstition and cruelty; and the servants of Christ who have faith-fully laboured there, await with patient confidence the ultimate andglorious triumph of that Gospel which has so greatly blessed otherparts of Eiji. About 1843, the heathen Chief of Mbua procured a Teacher fromViwa to instruct a friend of his who had renounced idolatry for theChristian faith. This Teacher, and others who were afterwards sent tohis help, laboured under the indirect sanction of the Mbua Chief, andhad such encouraging success, that, although the district had beenunsettled by war, the converts, in 1845, amounted to three hundred.Presently this fair prospect was darkened by a change in the feelingsand conduct of Tui Mbua,

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