The Fiji of To-day. 
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At the Methodist Ecumenical Conference held in London, 
in the summer of 1881, the Rev. J. Calvert stated that 
there were at that date, in Fiji, 48 native ministers, 726 
native catechists, 2,252 native teachers, 1,405 native local 
preachers, 2,733 native class-leaders, 1,400 schools, and 900 
churches. Aggressive mission effort has also been under- 
taken by the Fijians, on behalf of the people of New Britain, 
headed by Rev. Mr. Brown. When this mission was first 
ENGLISH CHURCH, LEVUKA, FIJI. 
planned, the English Consul deemed it his duty to warn 
those Fijians, who were going forth as teachers to the 
cannibals of New Britain, of the dangers they were about 
to incur, provided they insisted in their enterprise. For 
answer, he received the following noble words : " We are 
all of one mind. We know what these islands are. We 
have given ourselves to this work. If we get killed, well ; 
if we live, well. We have had everything explained to us, 
