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been on shore before) we were treated with the 
utmost respect and kindness. A commodious 
dwelling was given up, by the chiefs, for our 
people to worship and teach in, with four good 
dwelling-houses for themselves and families. We 
promised the chiefs and people, in the large public 
meeting we held, when we exchanged our pre¬ 
sents, &c., to visit them in ten or twelve months' 
time, and that, if they had attended to the instruc¬ 
tions of the teachers, we would then assure them 
that European Missionaries would come and 
settle with them as soon as possible. One thing 
affected us much : the two largest of the islands, 
Upolu and Savai, are about ten miles distant from 
each other; war was raging between them ; they 
were actually fighting on the shore of Upolu while 
we were landing the teachers on the opposite 
shore of Savai; the houses and plantations were 
blazing at that very time." 
On taking an impartial retrospect of Polynesia, 
and surveying man under the influence of his 
ferocious passions and unregenerate propensities, 
we find ourselves constrained to admit, that the 
power of God accompanying his gospel, is the 
only antidote in existence for the moral maladies 
of the human race. Nothing but this can induce 
the fallen sons of Adam to “ beat their swords 
into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning- 
hooks;" and when its universal diffusion shall take 
place, we feel assured that “ the nations of the 
earth will learn war no more." 
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