Life and light for woman . ve no fires of martyrdom now to test our fidelity to Jesus Christ, butwe are not left without a test. God is testing us all continually, as to themeasure of our faith, love, and devotedness to his Son, by the presence of onethousand million of heathen in the world. It is a tremendous test—so real,,so practical ! May none of us fail in this test of our discipleship. Jf0Mt0 ^tuples §.epa:rimmt LIGHTS AND SHADES IN MICRONESIA. The following letter from Miss S. L. Smith gives a vivid picture of the condition ofsome of the Gilbert Islands : — I was interested in our visit
Life and light for woman . ve no fires of martyrdom now to test our fidelity to Jesus Christ, butwe are not left without a test. God is testing us all continually, as to themeasure of our faith, love, and devotedness to his Son, by the presence of onethousand million of heathen in the world. It is a tremendous test—so real,,so practical ! May none of us fail in this test of our discipleship. Jf0Mt0 ^tuples §.epa:rimmt LIGHTS AND SHADES IN MICRONESIA. The following letter from Miss S. L. Smith gives a vivid picture of the condition ofsome of the Gilbert Islands : — I was interested in our visit to Apaian, as the old mission station,—thehome of the Binghams and of five of my girls. But the last two islandswhich we saw—Ocean and Pleasant Islands—were interesting as differing sogreatly from all others, and still in being in so much more primitive a are not low coral islands with lagoons, but Ocean Island has an eleva-tion of from two to three hundred feet; while Pleasant Island, lying one hun-. GILBERT ISLAND WARRIORS. dred and fifty miles to the west of it, is about half that height. Ocean Islandis about three miles in length, and slopes gradually from all sides to its great-est height in the centre, appearing from a distance like a gently rounding ant-hill on a mammoth scale. The shores are broken here and there by massesof black and copper-colored rocks, jutting out in long points beyond the whitesand beach. This island received its name from the ship Ocean, which issupposed to have discovered it years ago. fii) 12 LIFE AND LIGHT. But the most striking peculiarity of this strange, isolated place is the lackof water. One is at once struck on approaching the land with the desolate,dry, dusty appearance of it all. The cocoanut-trees, of which there are reallyvery few, are growing brown, and bear but few nuts ; while all other vegeta-tion is in the most despondent state, like the sage-brush country west of Kan-sas. We were told that no rain, to amou
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