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“Our prospects,’ he wrote, “are now glorious, and thou- 
sands are anxious to be taught the way of salvation. The 
Lord is going before us, and opening doors on every hand. 
The people are continually crying, ‘Come and help us;’ and 
where in the beginning of the year the offer of mercy would 
have been, and was, rejected, there they beg us to send them 
some one to instruct them in reading, and to teach them the 
way of life. 
“The Holy Spirit has also been working among us... . 
We have lately been reminded that God is still the same, 
His way of working the same, His grace and power pro- 
ducing the same wondrous change in the hearts, lives, 
tongues, of the degraded Fijians, as in the day when Peter 
preached to the guilty Jews and others, and such wonders 
resulted. The religion of Christ is the same in every land. 
“A man came to his friends, the Rewa chiefs, a few days 
ago, and said, ‘Come, and I will tell you of the great things 
the Lord has done for my soul.’ The people were amazed 
while he told them of his repentance and of the Holy Ghost 
coming upon him, and of the love of God being shed abroad 
in his heart. Thus the Lord is encouraging us in our work. 
We have the droppings of the shower, and look for the burst- 
ing floods on all this thirsty land.” 
The question in the minds of the missionaries at Rewa was 
no longer, How shall we impress by the truth these savage 
cannibal hearts? but rather, How shall we find strength and 
endurance to labor so continuously that all these inquiring 
thousands shall be instructed in the way of light and life? 
“If I had a tongue of fire,’ wrote Mr. Moore, “I should 
like to go and try to wake up our colonial [Australian] 
churches. .. . We must have their prayers. We cannot do 
without them. There must be no retreat; just now we re- 
quire all the help we can get. We as missionaries must make 
sacrifice of comfort, of life, of all. The churches must also 
make sacrifices—of men, of means, of prayers, of faith. ... 
Fiji will have a frothy religion unless we get more help. 
