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tribes are silently passing away into eternity unsaved. Yes; 
150,000 Fijians . . . are moving down into the dark valley of 
death, and the deep gulf of eternity beyond, unenlightened, 
unwarned, and because unenlightened and unwarned, un- 
saved. 
“© that the churches of Britain were acquainted with the 
piteous thoughts that wring the hearts of Fiji’s mission- 
aries! They would then not allow us to kill ourselves with 
our work; but they would make up our staff to twenty. They 
would say, ‘Fiji shall have twenty missionaries, at whatever 
cost, whatever sacrifice to ourselves ;’ and then God in heaven 
would smile His approval, and He would stretch forth more 
gloriously His mighty arm for Fiji’s help, and He would 
verify His own gracious promise, He that watereth others, 
shall himself also be watered. 
“But you ask, What are these thoughts that would make 
your eyes weep blood, if blood could flow from the fountain 
of tears? They are the thoughts of the mass of the present 
generation of Fiji’s many tribes passing away into eternity 
in their blood,—passing away to the judgment throne unen- 
lightened, unsaved. They are the thoughts of hundreds now 
actually, by their own act, severed from heathenism, and 
never hearing the missionary’s voice; hundreds, whom we 
have taught, and now they hunger for the bread of life, but 
we cannot give it; hundreds, to whom we have spoken of 
the rivers of salvation, and now they thirst and in piteous 
accents cry, ‘Where, O where is the fountain of the water 
of life, that we may drink and live?’ but, alas! we cannot 
point them to it; and we have no hope of doing it, unless 
our numbers are doubled at once. 
“And if the seven or eight missionaries who have, with 
God’s blessing, and under your sanction, taught 45,000 can- 
nibal Fijians to hunger for the bread of life, cannot now sat- 
isfy that hunger, what can they do for the great mass of Fiji, 
which is, although perhaps overlooked, perhaps forgotten, 
still heathen, and still unsaved? 
