Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . -> ^-X. h2 O2 J> a; 2 Q U < Chapter XXI. CHRISTIANITY IN FIJI. One afternoon we were asked up to tea by the resident mis-sionary. He lives with his family in a pretty house on thetop of the steep hill which forms the centre of the island. Itwas v^ery restful sitting on the broad verandah, looking outover the wide view of sea and sky and distant land. He in-dicated to us the various points of interest, among them theisland of Viwa where mission work in this neighbourhood firstbegan, and he promised to take us over some day to see i
Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . -> ^-X. h2 O2 J> a; 2 Q U < Chapter XXI. CHRISTIANITY IN FIJI. One afternoon we were asked up to tea by the resident mis-sionary. He lives with his family in a pretty house on thetop of the steep hill which forms the centre of the island. Itwas v^ery restful sitting on the broad verandah, looking outover the wide view of sea and sky and distant land. He in-dicated to us the various points of interest, among them theisland of Viwa where mission work in this neighbourhood firstbegan, and he promised to take us over some day to see it. The Wesleyans were the first to start missions in Fiji, andthey took them up so thoroughly, and spread their stationsso widely over tlie whole group of islands, that there was littleroom for other Protestant societies, who therefore gave theirenergies to other places, and left the work here entirely tothis body; so that, except where the Roman Catholics camein, soon after the Wesleyans, there was no controversy ofdoctrine to disturb the infant religion of Fi
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