In the Loyalty Islands 
CHRISTIAN teachers were introduced to the island of 
Maré in the Loyalty group in 1841, and very strikingly was 
the hand of God seen in the manner ef their coming. This 
work was undertaken by islanders who were conveyed to 
their field of labor by Mr. Murray, and we will let him tell 
the story of its peril and its triumph: 
“All the forenoon we kept close in to the shore, looking 
anxiously for indications of the presence of human beings; 
nothing of this kind, however, appeared; huge coral barriers 
seemed to warn us off, and nothing to encourage could be 
discerned. After dinner a boat was lowered, and we pulled 
slowly along the coast till night was drawing on and hope 
was almost gone, when, suddenly, to our great joy, light 
appeared in the darkness—a canoe was descried in the dis- 
tance. Hope revived, and we made all possible haste to get 
within hail of the little craft; and what was our surprise 
when, as we drew near, a man stood up in the canoe and 
shouted to us in a language which we understood, ‘Ua ou 
iloa le Atua moni’ (I know the true God). 
“Tt seemed like a voice from heaven. All that was need- 
ful to the accomplishment of our object was provided to our 
hand. Our most urgent need was an interpreter, and next 
to that a guide, and here were both in one. The man who 
hailed us proved to be a native of Niuatobutabu, an island 
of the Tonga group, who, with others of his countrymen, 
had lost their way at sea many years before, and were now 
as familiar with the language and the island as the natives 
themselves. 
“We resigned ourselves without misgivings to the guidance 
of our newly found friend, whose name was Taufa, and by 
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