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“And we pray Thee for our ministers; they see much 
evil by living with us in Fiji, and they suffer, and are weak 
in their bodies, and there is nothing with us that we can give 
them to strengthen them. This only we can do, we can pray 
for them. O Lord Jesus Christ, hear our prayers for them. 
Mr. Williams is weak; do Thou strengthen him, and let his 
life be long, and make our land good for him; and bless the 
lady and the children, and let Thy Spirit be always with them 
to comfort their minds. 
“*These are our prayers: O hear them! Do Thou hear 
them for Jesu’s sake. O hear them for Fiji’s sake! Do have 
love for Fiji! When our minds think of Fiji, they are 
greatly pained; for the men and women of Fiji are Thy 
people, and these Thy people are strangled, and clubbed, and 
destroyed. O have compassion on Fiji! and spare Thy serv- 
ants for the sake of Fiji, that they may preach Thy true word 
to the people. And, O Holy Spirit, give light to the dark- 
hearted, and give them repentance. And set us in motion, 
that we may not be so useless as we have been; but that we 
may now, and for the time to come, live to extend Thy king- 
dom, that it may reach all Fiji, for the sake of Jesus Christ, 
the accepted offering for us. Amen.’ 
“Verani was accustomed, when from home, to retire to the 
reef at low water, or into the woods, for private prayer; and 
one night, at a distant island, while he was praying in the 
bush, a man lifted a club to kill him, not knowing at first 
who he was or what he was doing. No wonder that such 
a man, living such a life, was made a great blessing to 
Fiji. 
“Mr. Lyth wrote as follows, dated Lakemba, Sept. 15, 
1851: ‘Elijah Verani, of Viwa, paid a friendly visit to La- 
kemba in April. Whilst it was evidently gratifying to him 
to see what Christianity had done here, it was equally grat- 
ifying to all of us to behold what it had done for him, once 
a desperate heathen and cannibal, now a man, a Christian, 
and a brother beloved. 
