34 Progress of the Work. 
missioned by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. Dr. Geddie 
died at Geelong, 14th December, aged fifty-six. 
1873: January 6, Dayspring wrecked. Mr. Annand (Pres- 
byterian Church of Nova Scotia) arrived at Melbourne ex route 
for the islands. 
During all these years Dr. Geddie, in conjunction with Mr. 
Inglis, was engaged in visiting the various islands of the group, 
seeking to get into friendly relations with the people, and to open 
new doors for teachers and missionaries. On him, too, fell the 
main work of translation. Besides the New Testament, the 
Psalter, and the books of the Old Testament, many tracts and 
books, suitable to his people, were not only translated but 
printed on Aneityum. With the view of carrying on the print- 
ing of the remaining portions of the Old Testament under his 
own eye in Melbourne, he removed his family to Geelong in 
the close of 1869. For reasons of health the removal was 
exceedingly desirable. It was hoped, both for him and 
his wife, that the change to a more bracing climate might 
restore some of their wasted vigour. But the rest he so 
much needed was denied ; for each of the three following years 
he found himself under the necessity of returning to the islands 
to assist in the growing work of the mission. Perhaps he over- 
rated this necessity. Itwas one of the heart—the necessity of 
‘a master builder who must see the work he has begun carried 
on to his mind—of a father who longs to see the children whom 
he has begotten in the Lord, and to minister to them some 
spiritual gift. So he went—went for the last time, in the 
voyage of the Dayspring, 1872. But the messenger of Death _ 
went with him; and while he was attending the annual 
conference of the mission, in the month of June, he received 
a paralytic stroke, admonishing him that he must come 
