my heart! I hold Jesus! I am happy! My heart is full of love to God!'

"Another said, 'One good thing I know,--the sacred blood of Jesus. I
desire nothing else.'

"Another,--'I know that God has justified me through the sacred blood
of Jesus. I know assuredly that I am reconciled to God. I know of the
work of God in my soul. The sacred Spirit makes it clear to me. I wish
to preach the gospel, that others also may know Jesus.'

"All these have been engaged the past year in teaching or proclaiming
the truth in various ways. Another of their number who was dying, one
or two of us went to see. One of us asked him if he was afraid to die?
'No,' he said, 'I am sheltered. The great Saviour died for me. The
Lord's wrath is removed. I am his.' And another time he remarked,
'Death is a fearfully great thing, but I fear it not. There is a
_Saviour_ below the skies.'

"So there is a helmet of salvation for the poor Fijian as well as for
the favoured people at home. Praise be to the Lord! Did I tell you, my
dear friend, I was restless at the thought of sending letters home? Let
me tell you now, I am happy; as happy as I could be in any place in the
world; and I would not be in any other place, by my own choice, for all
the things in the world. I need only to be made more holy. Just in
proportion as I am that, I am happy and I am useful. I want to be
perfectly holy. But there is the same way of trusting for the poor
Fijian and for me; and I believe in that same precious blood I shall be
made clean, even as they. I want to preach Christ a thousand times more
than I do. I long to make his love known to these poor people. I
rejoice in being here, where every minute may tell actively for him. My
dear friend, when we get home, do what we will, we shall not think we
have done enough.

"Our life here is full of curious contrasts. Within doors, what our old
habits have stereotyped as propriety, is sadly trenched upon. Before
the ship came, Mrs. Lefferts' stock of comfort in one line was reduced
to a single tea-cup; and in other stores, the demands of the natives
had caused us to run very short. You know it is only by payment of
various useful articles that we secure any service done or purchase any
native produce. Money is unknown. Fruit and vegetables, figs, fish,
crabs, fowls, we buy with iron tools, pieces of calico, and the like;
and if our supply of these gives out, we have to draw upon the store of
things needed by ourselves; and