1. 
The Night of Heathenism. 
Christianity has made all things new in Fiji. In those 
islands, once the abodes of cannibalism, and vice, and all 
evil passions, the Gospel has won glorious triumphs. Car- 
ried there by a small band of Wesleyan missionaries — too 
small for the needs of the population — it won its widening 
way, until nearly all the land has become civilized, Chris- 
tianized, and exalted. And, although some of the scattered 
islands of the Fiji group are still groping in the dimness and 
darkness of heathenism, the sound of the glorious Gospel has 
found its way even to the darkest corners, and shaken the 
old superstitions and customs of the inhabitants. No story 
of mission success is more interesting than this, no annals 
of mission fields more full of danger, suffering, and risks ; 
yet in a most wonderful manner the history of the work 
exemplifies the triumphs of the grace of God. In place of 
inhuman yells, and orgies of blood, and slaughter, are now 
to be heard the song of praise to God and the earnest 
petition for mercy ; where once men revelled in cannibalism 
and cruelty, they now bow in self-abasement and humility 
before the Saviour who refused them not, — dyed with in- 
iquity as they were,— but permitted them to attain to the 
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