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Excerpt from Foreign Missions Reviewed: With Suggestions for the Formation of a Friends' Missionary Society
Thousands now attend Christian worship, the field is but scantily supplied with labourers, and, like India, presents a most favourable opening for the establishment of a Foreign Mission.
The introduction of Christianity among the Isles of the Pacific also abounds with God's providences and interpositions. In some instances the people in expectation of the missionary ship cast away their idols, erected places for public worship, and waited for the coming of the messengers of peace. Before the gospel was introduced, and while the natives were expecting missionaries, they were known to assemble at six o'clock on Sabbath morning, sit in silence an hour or more, and repeat this a second or even a third time during the day.
The Wesleyan Missionary Society has, according to last year's report, 909 missionaries now engaged in foreign lands, besides a much larger number of native assistants, and not a few of them are earnestly labouring in the far-off Isles of the Pacific.
John Hunt was a bright example of these self denying labourers. In his youth he had many doubts and fears about his ministry, yet one of his elders cheered him onwards by quaintly observing, If the Lord calls thee to the work, He'll give thee tools to work with.
For five long years he worked hard in Fiji, with little evidence of success. He translated Scriptures.
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